MEXICO
- COUNTRY IN THE SPOTLIGHT
REMEMBRANCE
RECUERDOS
Marcela
Arteaga
Country of production:
Mexico
Year: 2003
Language: Spanish, Russian
Mins: 86
Production company: Centro De
Capacitacion Cinematografica
Producers: Angeles Castro, Hugo
Rodriguez
Script: Marcela Arteaga
Cinematography: Celiana Cardenas
Editing: Marcela Arteaga, Roberto
Bolado, Sigfrido Barjau
Sound: Luciano
Larobina, Santiago Nunez, Hugo Rodriguez, Lena Esquenazi
Music: Gustavo Arteaga
Source: Centro De Capacitation
Cinematografica
Calaz. Tlalplan 1670, Col.County Club
04420 Mexico D.F. Mexico
Tel: 52.55 1253 9490
Fax: 52.55 1253 9492
e-mail: festival@ccc.cnart.mx
www.ccc.cnart.mx
Director Marcela Arteaga uses the stranger-than-fiction
life story of Luis Frank as a lens through which to provide
a unique look at the history of the 20th century. Frank, a
Lithuanian born at the end of the 19th century, emigrated
to New York in the beginning of the 20th century, was an American
spy in Paris during the First World War, a Republican miiltant
in the Spanish Civil War, and then an exile in Mexico where
he started a new life and founded a family. During his Spanish
period, Luis Frank shot two documentaires and by the end of
his life he planned to remake one of them; however, he died
before finishing his work. Frank’s life made him a witness
to many decisive moments in history, something that appealed
to Arteaga. She took memory as the starting point and goal
of her film essay. “More than reconstructing Luis’s
life step by step,” she explains, “in this documentary
I tried to recover the individuals, places, facts, feelings
and atmospheres that marked him and his lifetime.”
 Marcela
Arteaga began her studies in 1987, specializing in film direction.
Professionally she has collaborated on projects of filmmakers
such as Carlos Carrera, María Novaro, José Luis
García Agraz, Tomás Gutierrez Alea.
FILMOGRAPHY
REMEMBRANCE
(2003)
DEL OTRO DEL MAR (1995)
UN SANDWICH (1990)
ALICIA (1989)
LA FABRICA (1988)
SUNDAY,
APRIL 3, 2005 AT 1.00 PM. / GALLERY THEATRE
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