Directing
Ariel Zúñiga
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Directing
Credits
8 titles
Ariel Zúñiga Laborde (Mexico City, 1947), is a Mexican cinematographer, director, editor, and screenwriter. At the age of 18, he traveled to France where he studied Art History at the Sorbonne in Paris and, in 1968, enrolled as a free student at IDHEC. Upon returning to Mexico, Ariel Zúñiga acquired a 16mm camera and began filming documentaries for cultural television artists. In the early seventies, he worked as a cameraman for Tiempo de cine, a television program on Canal Once featuring Emilio García Riera, José de la Colina, Tomás Pérez Turrent, Francisco Sánchez, Jorge Cantú, and actress Daniela Rosen. He pursued still photography and enrolled at CUEC, where he studied Film Direction a…
Known for
6.7Recounts the union struggle of taxi drivers supported by the Communist Party.
Apuntes
1976
6.0The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.
El diablo y la dama
1984
4.0In trying to exercise his labor rights a worker is kidnapped by the police so that his employers can fire him without problem. Neither his family nor his companions understand the meaning of his effort or his sacrifice because of lack of communication.
Uno entre muchos
1982
6.2The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.
Anacrusa
1979
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Una moneda en el aire
1992
Behind the camera
6.7Recounts the union struggle of taxi drivers supported by the Communist Party.
Apuntes
1976
6.7Recounts the union struggle of taxi drivers supported by the Communist Party.
Apuntes
1976
6.0The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.
El diablo y la dama
1984
6.0The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.
El diablo y la dama
1984
4.0In trying to exercise his labor rights a worker is kidnapped by the police so that his employers can fire him without problem. Neither his family nor his companions understand the meaning of his effort or his sacrifice because of lack of communication.
Uno entre muchos
1982
4.0In trying to exercise his labor rights a worker is kidnapped by the police so that his employers can fire him without problem. Neither his family nor his companions understand the meaning of his effort or his sacrifice because of lack of communication.
Uno entre muchos
1982
6.2The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.
Anacrusa
1979
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Una moneda en el aire
1992