Rafael Corkidi

Directing

Rafael Corkidi

Born — Died

1930-05-20 — 2013-09-18

Place of birth

Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

Rafael Corkidi Acriche (May 20, 1930 - September 18, 2013) was a Mexican filmmaker and videographer who collaborated, as director of photography with Alejandro Jodorowsky in the tapes Fando and Lis (1968), El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain(1973). He was the director of the first Mexican and Latin American feature film made entirely in video format, Figures of Passion (1983).

Known for

Angels and Cherubs poster
6.4

A tragic celestial-western that explores Adam and Eve's paradise from a surreal point of view.

Angels and Cherubs

1972

Fando and Lis poster
6.8

Fando and his partially paralysed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar.

Fando and Lis

1972

Desires poster
5.1

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.

Desires

1983

Holy Pafnucio poster
5.8

Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)

Holy Pafnucio

1977

Figuras de la pasión poster
5.7

This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.

Figuras de la pasión

1985

Rulfo aeternum poster
6.3

Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican Revolution, tells the story of her beloved, Matilde Arcangel, who was stolen from him by his boss, from whom he gives birth a child.

Rulfo aeternum

1992

Film credits

Behind the camera

Angels and Cherubs poster
6.4

A tragic celestial-western that explores Adam and Eve's paradise from a surreal point of view.

Angels and Cherubs

1972

Desires poster
5.1

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.

Desires

1983

Desires poster
5.1

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.

Desires

1983

Holy Pafnucio poster
5.8

Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)

Holy Pafnucio

1977

Holy Pafnucio poster
5.8

Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)

Holy Pafnucio

1977

Holy Pafnucio poster
5.8

Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)

Holy Pafnucio

1977

Figuras de la pasión poster
5.7

This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.

Figuras de la pasión

1985

Figuras de la pasión poster
5.7

This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.

Figuras de la pasión

1985

Rulfo aeternum poster
6.3

Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican Revolution, tells the story of her beloved, Matilde Arcangel, who was stolen from him by his boss, from whom he gives birth a child.

Rulfo aeternum

1992

Rulfo aeternum poster
6.3

Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican Revolution, tells the story of her beloved, Matilde Arcangel, who was stolen from him by his boss, from whom he gives birth a child.

Rulfo aeternum

1992

Las Lupitas poster
6.7

A surreal and free interpretation of the story of Saint Joseph.

Las Lupitas

1985

Querida Benita poster
7.0

Written, produced, photographed, directed, and manipulated during performance by Rafael Corkidi, the "video theater" Querida Benita (1989) is a spectacle that breaks with the formats of film and video by situating itself in a sui generis setting (the Manuel M. Ponce Hall of the Palace of Fine Arts or a small stage in the basement of the El Juglar bookstore in August-October 1989), but it encounters the limitations of the dramatic current that it, moreover, inaugurates. These are the limitations of Mexican socialist unrealism.

Querida Benita

1989

No artwork available
7.0

A 30 minute short directed by Rafael Cordiki. Plot unavailable at this time

Amigo campesino

1974

No artwork available
5.8

Experimental documentary short film with a prologue by José Revueltas about the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

Mexico 68: Snapshots

1968

No artwork available
5.8

Experimental documentary short film with a prologue by José Revueltas about the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

Mexico 68: Snapshots

1968

Auandar Anapu poster
5.9

Anapu is the people's hero. He extracts water from a rock, befriends, and baptizes it, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, while tracking a fascist military.

Auandar Anapu

1975

Auandar Anapu poster
5.9

Anapu is the people's hero. He extracts water from a rock, befriends, and baptizes it, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, while tracking a fascist military.

Auandar Anapu

1975

No artwork available
4.7

A surrealist musical short, featuring folkloric dance and stark Mexican landscapes, in honor of the 1972 World Cup.

Song Dedicated to the World and Friends Who Accompany It

1972

No artwork available
4.7

A surrealist musical short, featuring folkloric dance and stark Mexican landscapes, in honor of the 1972 World Cup.

Song Dedicated to the World and Friends Who Accompany It

1972

The Prodigious Teacher poster
5.0

Three stories make up this film, each with a teacher as the protagonist of the struggle against the many deficiencies of our country´s educational system.

The Prodigious Teacher

2010

The Prodigious Teacher poster
5.0

Three stories make up this film, each with a teacher as the protagonist of the struggle against the many deficiencies of our country´s educational system.

The Prodigious Teacher

2010