Mexico,
2002, 80 min
Shown in 2003
CREDITS
- dir
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Juan Carlos Martín
- prod
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Juan Carlos Martín
- cam
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Federico Barbabosa
- editor
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Gabriel Rodríguez de la Mora
- mus
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Manuel Rocha
- source
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Catatonia Films, Aristoteles 92 Col. Polano, Mexico, DF 11560, Mexico. FAX: 52-55-5282-2074. EMAIL: juancarlos@catatoniafilms.com.
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COMMENTS
Juan Carlos Martín in person.
OTHER
Throughout Juan Carlos Martín’s documentary, jets streak across the sky, leaving behind delicate, cloudy lines against a pure blue backdrop. These mild punctuations—caught on the fly by the filmmaker—echo the elements of chance and wonder that are an essential part of the work of world renowned contemporary artist Gabriel Orozco. Shot in color-streaked digital video, terrifically grainy black-and-white film stock and other formats, this hybrid documentary is beautiful to behold. Martín’s peripatetic profile takes us on a fast-paced journey with Orozco from exhibitions in Paris and Frankfurt to a Viennese DJ party to a Mexican (homecoming) retrospective. Personal disclosures and critical appreciations provide a constant sonic backdrop to the filmmaker’s concern: capturing the thought and art-making process of Orozco. The film includes testimonials from an international suite of curators (from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Robert Storr), artists Cristian Boltanski and Steve McQueen, as well as friends and lovers. The film also provides an intimate view of the creation of key works in Orozco’s career, such as his altered Citroën DS, La DS (1993). Along the way, the artist shares his ideas on his both intellectual and instinctual work habits, as well as his ruminations on the “eternal transition time” and visual culture of his native Mexico, which strongly informs his work.
—Rita Gonzáles
FACTOID #107
Incubus, the only known film made in the Esperanto language (at least the only one starring William Shatner), played the 1966 San Francisco International Film Festival.
