Movies: Miguel Calderón

  • 2010
    Guardians of the Lost Code

    Guardians of the Lost Code (2010)

    Guardians of the Lost Code

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    Brijes are magical animal spirits that have been in contact with human beings since the beginning of time. Every human had his brije: The human cared for his brije and vice versa. When the human turned 13 the old shamans performed the ritual a synchr...

    Guardians of the Lost Code
  • 2024
    Loss Adjustment

    Loss Adjustment (2024)

    Loss Adjustment

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    The Magic Lantern Cinema, a theater in the south of Mexico City was affected by a flood and later by the earthquake of September 19, 2017. This is a documentary about what happened afterwards....

    Loss Adjustment
  • 1999
    Coapa Heights

    Coapa Heights (1999)

    Coapa Heights

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    A group of Mexican teenagers in the 90's face a series of ordeals in their neighborhood's dynamic of drugs and intrinsic decadent violence...

    Coapa Heights
  • 2016
    Zeus

    Zeus (2016)

    Zeus

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    Sporadically employed and still living with his successful neurosurgeon mother, Joel finds his only joy in falconry in the flatlands outside Mexico City, until an encounter with a down-to-earth secretary forces him to face reality....

    Zeus
  • 1988
    Demonios Juveniles

    Demonios Juveniles (1988)

    Demonios Juveniles

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    Juvenile Devils is an assemblage of film fragments from different periods that Miguel Calderón had previously discarded. The video unveils a contin- uous editing process that gives cohesion to a series of apparently uncon- nected and fragmented image...

    Demonios Juveniles
  • 1992
    Un Nahual Veracru'

    Un Nahual Veracru' (1992)

    Un Nahual Veracru'

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    16mm short film where the artist transforms into a dog....

    Un Nahual Veracru'
  • 2008
    The Disciple of Speed

    The Disciple of Speed (2008)

    The Disciple of Speed

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    A documentary about Emma, a 50 year old Mexican multimillionaire race car driver...

    The Disciple of Speed
  • 2013
    Easy Prey

    Easy Prey (2013)

    Easy Prey

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    The story of Sergio, a hawk trainer, within a few scenarios that are intertwined to show his life in a contemplative manner....

    Easy Prey
  • 2019
    Pleasure Afterwards

    Pleasure Afterwards (2019)

    Pleasure Afterwards

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    Just after the earthquake of September 19, 2017 that struck Mexico City, Calderón established a close relationship with the maintenance staff of the Cibeles Fountain. The video narrates a series of events told by a real character who also reenacts th...

    Pleasure Afterwards
  • 2017
    Camaleón

    Camaleón (2017)

    Camaleón

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    Chameleon is an installation made up of a projection and a series of hangers-objects used by falconers to transport their falcons and on which they rest during the hunt-folded on the floor of the sals. In the film, Miguel Calderón follows the weight...

    Camaleón
  • 2007
    Guest of Honor

    Guest of Honor (2007)

    Guest of Honor

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    In Guest of Honor we follow a family that comes across a deer while having a Sunday picnic and decides to take the animal home as a pet. This decision turns out to have bizarre consequences....

    Guest of Honor
  • 1969
    The Holy Triade

    The Holy Triade (1969)

    The Holy Triade

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    A falconry documentary by Miguel Calderon....

    The Holy Triade