A Portrait of Diego: The Revolutionary Gaze
OT: Un retrato de Diego: La revolución de la mirada
Gabriel Figueroa Flores, Diego López Rivera // Mexico, 2008
Documentary Feature // FF2008
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In the 1950s, Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902–2002) and cameraman Gabriel Figueroa (1908–1997) made a documentary film on their friend, the painter Diego Rivera, but the latter died before the film was completed. Figueroa’s son Gabriel and Rivera’s grandson Diego López have now built up on the fragment to produce a fascinating document of Mexican cultural history.
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Un retrato de Diego: La revolución de la mirada
Documentary Feature
Spanish
Vitrina//FF2008
Mexico
2008
80 min
OV
Gabriel Figueroa Flores, Diego López Rivera
Margarita Mansilla, Diego López Rivera
Gabriel Figueroa
Gabriel Figueroa Flores, Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Ramón Cervantes
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