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Felix

Felix, an amateur actor in low budget films and a people smuggler.  In this documentary we get to know the network he controls in Tijuana: The strategies, methods and members of his organization of illegal immigrant trafficking into the United States.  The film is structured according to the narrative of Dante's Divine Comedy.

Screenplay and Direction: Adriana Trujillo
Production: José Inerzia, Adriana Trujillo and Iván Díaz
Line Producer: José Inerzia
Production Companies: Polen Audiovisual, FOPROCINE / IMCINE
Year: 2011

Skin Destination

Skin Destination is a film-essay about the body in Tijuana.  It is built upon the montage of stock images: TV commercials, residual border films, music videos and contemporary images.  The sound design is made from fragments of sampled interviews, random sounds and electronic music. As in the city; different video formats, narrative and staging strategies and various audiovisual genres intersect and exceed each other’s limits continuously.  This visual essay raises the fictionalized and hybrid nature of a city and its urban myth that is built upon the dense reality.

Screenplay and Direction: Adriana Trujillo
Production: José Inerzia
Production Company: Polen Audiovisual

El Hogar al Revés (Upside Down Home )

From our home we use the powerful weapon of consumption to determine the fate of the world (though usually as an unconscious decision).  Humanity in the twenty-first century is not aware how transcendent our actions at home are in order to save or end the planet.
This documentary is a journey through different continents, cities and lifestyles to find the domestic dynamics that we urgently need to change for those that serve as an inspiration
to replicate at home. From our home we use the powerful weapon of consumption to define the destiny of the world, but do we know how much impact we have on it? It is time to become aware of our domestic actions in order to make a difference.

Screenplay and Direction : Itzel Martínez del Cañizo
Production: Ozcar Ramirez (Artemecánica)
Production Companies: Artemecánica / Polen Audiovisual

Georafias Cruzadas

(Intersected Geographies) shows the diverse aspects of the lives of two groups of young kids, through their own audiovisual creations, which were produced during Polen Project’s intensive workshops in two cities: Tijuana, Mexico and Zaragoza, Spain. The finished material exhibits the diversity in communication within their daily spaces and dreams, not leaving behind approximations and youth similarities. Thru participation and interviews we witness the intersection of views in which Spaniards ponder about the dynamics of the Mexican city and its visual projects, while Tijuana’s own talk about life, local customs and the future of Aragon’s capital city. The documentary also addresses the historical, social and cultural relations between the young and chaotic Tijuana and the serene and historic Zaragoza through archival images, panoramas, text and music.  Geografías Cruzadas is the meeting place between these two countries, thru video and their youth’s eyes.

Dirección: Adriana Trujillo
Producción: YONKEart
Guión: Itzel Martínez, Iván Diáz y Adriana Trujillo
Año: 2006

Exhibitions:
Centro de História de Zaragoza (Spain), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain), Centro Cultural Tijuana (Mexico), Festival Dokumente (Mexico), Ciclo Cine Compromiso La Plata (Argentina).

Postales Corporales

(Corporal Postcards) is a body divided in seven chapters or corporal vignettes, told based on a physical and psychic nakedness in terms of the so-called Capital Sins. Each postcard explores the skin of Luis, Mariona, Ana, Rubén, Ada, Aramis and Noemí, as they reflect on their “sin” and its relation with their body as a last challenge to their own identity and the ephemeral limits between their interior and exterior.

Direction and Production: Adriana Trujillo & Isabel Gahren
Production Companies: Universidad Autónoma de Barceloa & Barcelona TV
Year: 2005

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Exhibitions:
Caixa Forum Barcelona, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona CCCB, Doc’s Televisión pública Cataluña, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de San Diego (EU), Colectiva Familiar Memorable Laboratorio de Arte Alameda (Mexico), San Diego Latino Film Festival 2007 (EU).

Awards:
Premio Espacial del jurado Barcelona Visual Sound (2006), Mejor Documental Festival de Cine de Baja California (2006).

Ciudad Recuperacion

(Recovery City) is an artistic intervention of the drug rehabilitation process of a group of men, through the development of a fictional game. 
The group of inmates, camera in hand, forges a personal narrative about the ideal city, where they imagine a dignified and unified space: a Tijuana which reinvents itself to suit
the wishes and ideals of its “recovering” inhabitants.  Furthermore, the video contrasts the testimony of another social group formed by women of Tijuana’s upper and upper middle class. The way in which addicts of Ciudad Recuperación represent the ideal conditions for their reintegration into society is interspersed with interviews of women from a privileged sector of the city, who from their own perspective conceive the same city, also idealistically, where they are personally integrated. Ciudad Recuperación serves as an essay on the utopia of belonging within the social reality of Tijuana.

Screenplay and Direction: Itzel Martínez del Cañizo
Production: inSite_05/ YONKEart

Exhibitions:
Encuentro Entre Dos Mares Bienal São Paulo-Valencia (España) 2007; inSite_05 Ex Cine Bujazán Tijuana ; Instituto de Cultura de México en Washington (EU)

Salon de Baile La Estrella

(Star Ballroom) In a city like Tijuana, which is known for welcoming people from around the country, the presence of a ballroom is a good entertainment option.  People from all over Mexico who like dancing to cumbia, norteña, banda, balad, find in La Estrella an attractive opportunityto make new friends and learn a few new dance steps. Video, with its dual ability to capture both emotion and discourses such as images, colors, figures and complete events, became the perfect tool and weapon to dive into this little world full of life and peculiarities.
A ballroom in Tijuana is the set where thousands of migrants enjoy the cumbia. Dancers forget their daily struggle while swirling with their partners under the dimmed lights.

Direction: Itzel Martínez del Cañizo Fdz.-Jose Luis Martin Galindo
Production and original idea: Sergio Brown.
With the support of: Loop Urbanos 1999-2000.YONKEart

Exhibitions:
inSite 2000 Cinépolis Tijuana, COLEF, Semana Nacional de Antropología 2000.