Ximena Cuevas

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Mexican Erotica is a collective reappropriation film that explores sex and eroticism from various artistic and aesthetic points of view. A journey of textures, sensations and unmissable pleasures.

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Ximena Cuevas books herself onto the tabloid talk show Tómbola, toying at first with whimsical deconstruction until she turns the whole affair on its head by seizing the televisual flow itself.

An homage to Luis Bunuel's The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz with a twist to these days control systems of security. From the moment we are suspects we are potential culprits. Therefore we are all guilty.

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Mexican Erotica is a collective reappropriation film that explores sex and eroticism from various artistic and aesthetic points of view. A journey of textures, sensations and unmissable pleasures.

No synopsis available yet.

Ximena Cuevas books herself onto the tabloid talk show Tómbola, toying at first with whimsical deconstruction until she turns the whole affair on its head by seizing the televisual flow itself.

An homage to Luis Bunuel's The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz with a twist to these days control systems of security. From the moment we are suspects we are potential culprits. Therefore we are all guilty.

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"Perhaps Cuevas' most chilling work, Cinepolis forecasts an image-driven invasion of everyday life, picture-perfect and unnoticed. This alien intrusion comes in the form of a fully branded consumerscape that cheerily foists fast food along with the fantasy. Irreverent and biting, Cuevas fights back with the only weapon available--images of the enemy, and the enemy’s images." --Steve Seid, Pacific Film Archive, 2004

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The palms of Lana Turner's hands were full of scars; the technique she used in order to achieve melodrama was to tighten her fists, digging her fingernails into them until she began to cry. Day after day, soap opera actresses smear Vick's Vaporub into their eyes in order to cry. The effect of these false tears are the tears of the public. In Devil in the Flesh we see the camera's tricks, and even so the action seems dramatic. This piece once again exemplifies my fascination with the artificial: the fabricated emotions; the Christian looking for pain in order to live out Passion; the discomfort of the everyday melodrama; the emptiness that defeats everything

Dorothy doesn't reach her dream of the Emerald City. Rather, she will have already been over the rainbow by the time she arrives at the worst corner in Kansas.

Blind man: “It is bad to be alone.” The Creature: “Alone, bad.” —The Bride of Frankenstein It can be so bad to be alone that even an artificial heat is better than none.

The discomfort stems from being oneself. The clips included here explore who we are and who we imagine ourselves to be. They are experiments in appearances, examining the use of artifice to enhance life or conceal it. It is a reflection on moral dislocation, hypocrisy, autonomous dreams, self-hatred, and self-destruction—the act of repeatedly killing our dreams.

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A video poem about the nature of social relations and mass media, Half Lies exposes the seemingly innocuous ways we distort truth. Harmonious families, trade treaties, and current events are among the mediated realities that Cuevas interrogates. Half Lies makes the viewer question the half truths we encounter daily. The video walks the haunting gray area between documentary and drama, creating a world that is both shockingly grotesque and startingly authentic. Using mass-mediated images, animation, image manipulation, and fantasy, Medias Mentiras interprets the chaotic landscape of politics, urban chaos and everyday existence.

The innocence of creating a mirror, only to repeatedly crush it underfoot.

Short experimental horror documentary on media racism

La Puerta makes us spin out of control in the long and cruel corridors of an institutional nightmare.

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An upper class wedding in Mexico City where the guests fantasize about the exotic faraway dreamscape that is their “Hawai”.

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A short by Ximena Cuevas

After working in solitude at the studio, the artist leaves, uncomfortable with the idea of having to put on a face for the art world, where they expect you to say something articulate in order to grab the curator's attention. - Video Data Bank

Mixing samba, sex, and lovers' lies, this beautiful short is a visual meditation on sexuality, loss, jealousy, and intimacy.