REVIEW
Carlos Rodríguez reviews
Acapulco Folding Screen for Letras Libres,
25 June 2024 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Mariana Martínez Bonilla reviews
Acapulco Folding Screen for Los Experimentos,
16 June 2024 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 14th UNAM International Film Festival (FICUNAM)
presents Acapulco Folding Screen, Mexico City,
13-23 June 2024 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 19th Ambulante Festival
presents Totem in its Documentaries Tour,
Mexico City, Veracruz, Michoacán, Querétaro,
10 April – 26 May 2024 ︎︎︎
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SCREENING
The 36th Cinélatino Rencontres
de Toulouse presents Totem,
15-24 March 2024 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Totem among the best films of 2023
according to Jorge Ayala Blanco ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 44th International Habana Film Festival
presents Totem,
8-17 December 2023 ︎︎︎
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SCREENING
The 27th International Documentary Film Festival
of Santiago (FIDOCS) presents Totem,
20 November 2023 ︎︎︎
Accompanied by post-screening conversation with María Laura Lattanzi Vizzolini and Cristóbal Escobar
PRIZE
Jo Serfaty, María Zafra, and Eloi Bigas award Totem with the Special Mention of the International Feature Films section in L’Alternativa 30 ︎︎︎
For working with not only the visible but also the invisible dimension of a country populated by the wounds of its disappeared. For bringing to the surface that which is hidden, creating an essay that invites the viewer to dig into Mexico’s violent history, while pointing to the importance of building other possible worlds.
SCREENING
L’Alternativa 30 Festival de Cinema Independent
de Barcelona presents Totem, CCCB,
16 November 2023 ︎︎︎
Accompanied by post-screening conversation with Antonella Medici, Eduardo Ruiz Sosa, Nardi Silva, and Sandra Vicente Barreira ︎︎︎
SCREENING
Todolí Citrus Foundation presents Bodegón 1,
Palmera (Valencia), 23 September 2023 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Ofelia Ladrón de Guevara reviews Totem for Icónica,
10 July 2023 ︎︎︎
The images in Totem present an absence. However, as one part of the film mentions, “the void is not filled with a positive form.” Therefore, it is not enough to affirm the absence in order to show it. This being so, the documentary, in its attempt to speak, goes to the root of the images, to the connections between them.
STATEMENT
UMD releases statement titled “Por un cine sin nombres propios” at FICUNAM,
Mexico City, June 2023 ︎︎︎
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SCREENING
The 13th UNAM International Film Festival (FICUNAM) presents Totem,
Mexico City, 1–11 June 2023 ︎︎︎
Carlos Rodríguez reviews
Acapulco Folding Screen for Letras Libres,
25 June 2024 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Mariana Martínez Bonilla reviews
Acapulco Folding Screen for Los Experimentos,
16 June 2024 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 14th UNAM International Film Festival (FICUNAM)
presents Acapulco Folding Screen, Mexico City,
13-23 June 2024 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 19th Ambulante Festival
presents Totem in its Documentaries Tour,
Mexico City, Veracruz, Michoacán, Querétaro,
10 April – 26 May 2024 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 36th Cinélatino Rencontres
de Toulouse presents Totem,
15-24 March 2024 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Totem among the best films of 2023
according to Jorge Ayala Blanco ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 44th International Habana Film Festival
presents Totem,
8-17 December 2023 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 27th International Documentary Film Festival
of Santiago (FIDOCS) presents Totem,
20 November 2023 ︎︎︎
Accompanied by post-screening conversation with María Laura Lattanzi Vizzolini and Cristóbal Escobar
PRIZE
Jo Serfaty, María Zafra, and Eloi Bigas award Totem with the Special Mention of the International Feature Films section in L’Alternativa 30 ︎︎︎
For working with not only the visible but also the invisible dimension of a country populated by the wounds of its disappeared. For bringing to the surface that which is hidden, creating an essay that invites the viewer to dig into Mexico’s violent history, while pointing to the importance of building other possible worlds.
SCREENING
L’Alternativa 30 Festival de Cinema Independent
de Barcelona presents Totem, CCCB,
16 November 2023 ︎︎︎
Accompanied by post-screening conversation with Antonella Medici, Eduardo Ruiz Sosa, Nardi Silva, and Sandra Vicente Barreira ︎︎︎
SCREENING
Todolí Citrus Foundation presents Bodegón 1,
Palmera (Valencia), 23 September 2023 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Ofelia Ladrón de Guevara reviews Totem for Icónica,
10 July 2023 ︎︎︎
The images in Totem present an absence. However, as one part of the film mentions, “the void is not filled with a positive form.” Therefore, it is not enough to affirm the absence in order to show it. This being so, the documentary, in its attempt to speak, goes to the root of the images, to the connections between them.
STATEMENT
UMD releases statement titled “Por un cine sin nombres propios” at FICUNAM,
Mexico City, June 2023 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 13th UNAM International Film Festival (FICUNAM) presents Totem,
Mexico City, 1–11 June 2023 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Christian Duque, Juan Pablo Melo, and Paula Fonseca review Totem for La Pesadilla de Nanook #3 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Carlos Rodríguez reviews Totem for Letras Libres,
3 June 2023 ︎︎︎
EXHIBITION
General Expenses presents #thepowerofquartz,
10 June – 1 July 2023 ︎︎︎
Accompanying texts by Wendy Cabrera
and Sandra Rozental with Jesse Lerner
REVIEW
Pablo Gamba reviews Totem for Los Experimentos,
13 April 2023 ︎︎︎
Totem is a film essay on disappearance in Mexico that, in line with what has been said about the collective and its way of understanding the practice of cinema, is located at the antipodes of the political-spectacular of “Ruido” (Mexico-Argentina, 2022), by Natalia Beristáin, to give a recent and well-known example. The premise of the impossibility of giving an image of “the disappeared” brings Tótem into contrast with films that, by doing so in one way or another, produce imaginary answers to the social demand for truth, even with the best of intentions.
SCREENING
The 17th Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival presents Totem, Pamplona,
27 March – 1 April 2023 ︎︎︎
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SCREENING
FLIGHT/ Mostra internazionale del cinema di Genova presents Meteor, 29 October & 1 November 2022 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 29th Valdivia International Film Festival presents Bodegón 1 in the New Pathways Parallel Program,
10-16 October 2022 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Eduardo Egea reviews Bodegón 1 for Crónica,
29 July 2022 ︎︎︎
EXHIBITION
General Expenses presents Bodegón 1,
24 June – 29 July 2022 ︎︎︎
Curatorial text by Guilermo Santamarina
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PRIZE
Juana Schlenker, Juan Camilo Álvarez, and Carlos Alberto Amaya award Totem with the Critics Mention for Best Iberoamerican Film at MIDBO 24 ︎︎︎
We chose to give this award to the documentary Totem because of the way in which it addresses urgent issues of the Latin American reality, dislocating the relationship between images and words in a way that opens spaces for reflection and insight into issues that require our attention and creativity. The film also poses a stimulating dialogue with this year's MIDBO proposal to think about the emotions that the real transmits and generates, in this case through an archive of images, understood in a broad sense and in its relationship with the word. ︎︎︎
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SCREENING
MIDBO 24 (Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá) presents Totem,
26 & 29 October 2022 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Ernesto Diezmartinez reviews Totem for Letras Libres,
29 April 2022 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 32nd Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival presents Meteor, Chicago, 6 April 2022 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The London Short Film Festival presents Cabo Tuna,
16 January 2022 ︎︎︎
Christian Duque, Juan Pablo Melo, and Paula Fonseca review Totem for La Pesadilla de Nanook #3 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Carlos Rodríguez reviews Totem for Letras Libres,
3 June 2023 ︎︎︎
EXHIBITION
General Expenses presents #thepowerofquartz,
10 June – 1 July 2023 ︎︎︎
Accompanying texts by Wendy Cabrera
and Sandra Rozental with Jesse Lerner
REVIEW
Pablo Gamba reviews Totem for Los Experimentos,
13 April 2023 ︎︎︎
Totem is a film essay on disappearance in Mexico that, in line with what has been said about the collective and its way of understanding the practice of cinema, is located at the antipodes of the political-spectacular of “Ruido” (Mexico-Argentina, 2022), by Natalia Beristáin, to give a recent and well-known example. The premise of the impossibility of giving an image of “the disappeared” brings Tótem into contrast with films that, by doing so in one way or another, produce imaginary answers to the social demand for truth, even with the best of intentions.
SCREENING
The 17th Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival presents Totem, Pamplona,
27 March – 1 April 2023 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
FLIGHT/ Mostra internazionale del cinema di Genova presents Meteor, 29 October & 1 November 2022 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 29th Valdivia International Film Festival presents Bodegón 1 in the New Pathways Parallel Program,
10-16 October 2022 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Eduardo Egea reviews Bodegón 1 for Crónica,
29 July 2022 ︎︎︎
EXHIBITION
General Expenses presents Bodegón 1,
24 June – 29 July 2022 ︎︎︎
Curatorial text by Guilermo Santamarina
PRIZE
Juana Schlenker, Juan Camilo Álvarez, and Carlos Alberto Amaya award Totem with the Critics Mention for Best Iberoamerican Film at MIDBO 24 ︎︎︎
We chose to give this award to the documentary Totem because of the way in which it addresses urgent issues of the Latin American reality, dislocating the relationship between images and words in a way that opens spaces for reflection and insight into issues that require our attention and creativity. The film also poses a stimulating dialogue with this year's MIDBO proposal to think about the emotions that the real transmits and generates, in this case through an archive of images, understood in a broad sense and in its relationship with the word. ︎︎︎
SCREENING
MIDBO 24 (Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá) presents Totem,
26 & 29 October 2022 ︎︎︎
REVIEW
Ernesto Diezmartinez reviews Totem for Letras Libres,
29 April 2022 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The 32nd Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival presents Meteor, Chicago, 6 April 2022 ︎︎︎
SCREENING
The London Short Film Festival presents Cabo Tuna,
16 January 2022 ︎︎︎