Directing
Manuel Bayo Gisbert
Born
1997-07-01 (29)
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Directing
Credits
4 titles
Manuel Bayo Gisbert is a Mexican filmmaker, photographer and journalist. His work examines systemic violence in relation to territory, memory and history. After surviving kidnapping and torture in 2020, he began a long-term, multimedia audiovisual exploration of serious human rights violations in Mexico through collaborative and intimate processes; this project, A Solid Home, explores the history of violence in Mexico through still and moving images. His projects have been adapted into articles at The New York Times and have been exhibited internationally, including a solo show at the Rayburn House Office Building of the United States Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., organized by Amnes…
Known for
NRThis documentary weaves together two stories of disappearance: that of Atzin Molina, my high school friend who vanished in 2019, and that of Atzin, the Totonac rain deity, believed lost or dead amid the oil-driven devastation of Veracruz, Mexico. Through these two figures who share a name—one human, the other divine—the film traces a landscape of absence, where grief, ecological violence, and spiritual erosion become inseparable.
I Remember
2026
NR"This short film was made by printing video stills with a photocopier. I started making it in the last months of 2019, but after my interests and the way I produce work changed drastically in 2020, I no longer had the motivation to finish it. It remains as a snapshot of what could have been."
Untitled, Unfinished
2021
NRA love song.
Portrait of my Dreams Mixing with Her's
2020
Feature-length documentary about the processes of violence, state terrorism, and enforced disappearance that have taken place in Mexico from 1965 to the present day.
A Solid Home
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Behind the camera
NRThis documentary weaves together two stories of disappearance: that of Atzin Molina, my high school friend who vanished in 2019, and that of Atzin, the Totonac rain deity, believed lost or dead amid the oil-driven devastation of Veracruz, Mexico. Through these two figures who share a name—one human, the other divine—the film traces a landscape of absence, where grief, ecological violence, and spiritual erosion become inseparable.
I Remember
2026
NR"This short film was made by printing video stills with a photocopier. I started making it in the last months of 2019, but after my interests and the way I produce work changed drastically in 2020, I no longer had the motivation to finish it. It remains as a snapshot of what could have been."
Untitled, Unfinished
2021
NRA love song.
Portrait of my Dreams Mixing with Her's
2020
Feature-length documentary about the processes of violence, state terrorism, and enforced disappearance that have taken place in Mexico from 1965 to the present day.
A Solid Home
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