Pola Weiss
Yönetmen · 1947 – 1990 · Mexico City, Mexico
Pola Weiss studied communication in Mexico City's most famous university: UNAM, graduating with the first video thesis. After that, she travelled around the world to study video, and returned to Mexico to create her first piece: Flor Cósmica. She continued making videoart, and although she was recognized as an important artist in Europe, her fame in Mexico started after her death.
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FilmBelgeselThe inspiring life and untimely death of a Mexican artist who, ahead of her time, saw the darkness in the light of the screen and responded by transforming it into art.
Film8.0Pola Weiss confronts monumental history with romanticized representations of indigeneity, exposing the myths embedded in Mexico’s visual culture. An experimental collage where images of the pyramids of Teotihuacán collide with the romanticized indigenous figures of Jesús Helguera.
Sol o Águila
1980 · 3 votes