
Directing
Pablo Martínez-Zárate
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Directing
Credits
21 titles
Artist and researcher. Professor at the Communications Department of Iberoamericana University, where he coordinates the photography lab and is head of the Master in Film programme. Pablo’s work bridges memory, territory and identity through film, photography, multimedia and writing. He has exhibited individually at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Interactive Museum of Economics, Spain’s Cultural Center in Mexico and Mexico’s National Museum of Art. Amongst his films are Ciudad Merced (2013), La Película (2014), So Much Light (2015) and The Monopoly of Memory (2018). His multimedia work includes pieces such as the web-documentaries Santos Diableros & Momento MX , and the interactive poem and insta…
Known for
8.0An audiovisual portrait about La Merced neighborhood in Mexico City
Ciudad Merced
2013
NRShort documentary on the transition to digital cinema, focused on its impact on film preservation and memory. The film guides us through a film laboratory, from the processing of the negative to the copying of the positive film, and complements this journey with interviews to directors of photography, industry professionals and heads of film institutions.
La Película
2014
9.0This film takes a dive into a photographic archive that portrays the 1968 student movement in Mexico. By reviewing over 1300 photographs of students, soldiers and citizens, and the development of a movement inside the Mexican capital, marked by the massive uprisings and the government's repression, the film questions the relationship between memory, power and representation.
El Monopolio de la Memoria
2018
Ritual film in remembrance of three disappeared film students from Jalisco, Mexico.
SOS MX
2018
7.0A love story through a study of landscape. The voice of a woman speaks to the father of her only child. He abandoned her before knowing about her pregnancy. Several years later, he finds out about his child and decides to search for him.
Tanta Luz
2015
NRFilm shot on 16 mm that works as an essay on memory and territory from Xochimilco, through the transformation of the landscape of the Valley of Mexico and the organization of communal life after the earthquake of September 19, 2017.
La memoria se filtró por una grieta
2022
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
9.0This film takes a dive into a photographic archive that portrays the 1968 student movement in Mexico. By reviewing over 1300 photographs of students, soldiers and citizens, and the development of a movement inside the Mexican capital, marked by the massive uprisings and the government's repression, the film questions the relationship between memory, power and representation.
El Monopolio de la Memoria
2018
8.0A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.
Susurros del Panteón
2015
Behind the camera
8.0An audiovisual portrait about La Merced neighborhood in Mexico City
Ciudad Merced
2013
NRShort documentary on the transition to digital cinema, focused on its impact on film preservation and memory. The film guides us through a film laboratory, from the processing of the negative to the copying of the positive film, and complements this journey with interviews to directors of photography, industry professionals and heads of film institutions.
La Película
2014
NRShort documentary on the transition to digital cinema, focused on its impact on film preservation and memory. The film guides us through a film laboratory, from the processing of the negative to the copying of the positive film, and complements this journey with interviews to directors of photography, industry professionals and heads of film institutions.
La Película
2014
NRShort documentary on the transition to digital cinema, focused on its impact on film preservation and memory. The film guides us through a film laboratory, from the processing of the negative to the copying of the positive film, and complements this journey with interviews to directors of photography, industry professionals and heads of film institutions.
La Película
2014
9.0This film takes a dive into a photographic archive that portrays the 1968 student movement in Mexico. By reviewing over 1300 photographs of students, soldiers and citizens, and the development of a movement inside the Mexican capital, marked by the massive uprisings and the government's repression, the film questions the relationship between memory, power and representation.
El Monopolio de la Memoria
2018
9.0This film takes a dive into a photographic archive that portrays the 1968 student movement in Mexico. By reviewing over 1300 photographs of students, soldiers and citizens, and the development of a movement inside the Mexican capital, marked by the massive uprisings and the government's repression, the film questions the relationship between memory, power and representation.
El Monopolio de la Memoria
2018
Ritual film in remembrance of three disappeared film students from Jalisco, Mexico.
SOS MX
2018
Ritual film in remembrance of three disappeared film students from Jalisco, Mexico.
SOS MX
2018
7.0A love story through a study of landscape. The voice of a woman speaks to the father of her only child. He abandoned her before knowing about her pregnancy. Several years later, he finds out about his child and decides to search for him.
Tanta Luz
2015
7.0A love story through a study of landscape. The voice of a woman speaks to the father of her only child. He abandoned her before knowing about her pregnancy. Several years later, he finds out about his child and decides to search for him.
Tanta Luz
2015
7.0A love story through a study of landscape. The voice of a woman speaks to the father of her only child. He abandoned her before knowing about her pregnancy. Several years later, he finds out about his child and decides to search for him.
Tanta Luz
2015
NRFilm shot on 16 mm that works as an essay on memory and territory from Xochimilco, through the transformation of the landscape of the Valley of Mexico and the organization of communal life after the earthquake of September 19, 2017.
La memoria se filtró por una grieta
2022
NRFilm shot on 16 mm that works as an essay on memory and territory from Xochimilco, through the transformation of the landscape of the Valley of Mexico and the organization of communal life after the earthquake of September 19, 2017.
La memoria se filtró por una grieta
2022
NRFilm shot on 16 mm that works as an essay on memory and territory from Xochimilco, through the transformation of the landscape of the Valley of Mexico and the organization of communal life after the earthquake of September 19, 2017.
La memoria se filtró por una grieta
2022
A documentary about the Mexican National Museum of Art
Tacuba 8. Palacio y Museo
2012
A documentary about the Mexican National Museum of Art
Tacuba 8. Palacio y Museo
2012
8.0A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.
Susurros del Panteón
2015
8.0A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.
Susurros del Panteón
2015
8.0A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.
Susurros del Panteón
2015
