Pablo Martínez-Zárate

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

Ciudad Merced poster
8.0

An audiovisual portrait about La Merced neighborhood in Mexico City

Ciudad Merced

2013

La Película poster
NR

Short 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

El Monopolio de la Memoria poster
9.0

This 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

No artwork available
NR

Ritual film in remembrance of three disappeared film students from Jalisco, Mexico.

SOS MX

2018

Tanta Luz poster
7.0

A 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

La memoria se filtró por una grieta poster
NR

Film 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

Behind the camera

Ciudad Merced poster
8.0

An audiovisual portrait about La Merced neighborhood in Mexico City

Ciudad Merced

2013

La Película poster
NR

Short 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

La Película poster
NR

Short 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

La Película poster
NR

Short 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

El Monopolio de la Memoria poster
9.0

This 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

El Monopolio de la Memoria poster
9.0

This 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

No artwork available
NR

Ritual film in remembrance of three disappeared film students from Jalisco, Mexico.

SOS MX

2018

No artwork available
NR

Ritual film in remembrance of three disappeared film students from Jalisco, Mexico.

SOS MX

2018

Tanta Luz poster
7.0

A 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

Tanta Luz poster
7.0

A 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

Tanta Luz poster
7.0

A 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

La memoria se filtró por una grieta poster
NR

Film 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

La memoria se filtró por una grieta poster
NR

Film 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

La memoria se filtró por una grieta poster
NR

Film 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

No artwork available
NR

A documentary about the Mexican National Museum of Art

Tacuba 8. Palacio y Museo

2012

No artwork available
NR

A documentary about the Mexican National Museum of Art

Tacuba 8. Palacio y Museo

2012

Susurros del Panteón poster
8.0

A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.

Susurros del Panteón

2015

Susurros del Panteón poster
8.0

A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.

Susurros del Panteón

2015

Susurros del Panteón poster
8.0

A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.

Susurros del Panteón

2015