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UCLA Film & Television Archive, AMEXCID, Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles and UCLA Latin American Institute present

Journeys Within and Without: Matías Meyer

The Cramp (El calambre)
June 17, 2016 -
June 18, 2016
In-person: 
Matías Meyer (6/17, 6/18).

In the last decade of Mexico’s resurgence as an international cinematic power, one of its most fascinating emerging independent filmmakers has been Matías Meyer.  Crafting captivating films that evoke unfamiliar geographies and existentially charged engagements with duration and time, the award-winning filmmaker has developed a personal vernacular that speaks compellingly beyond generic convention and the present moment.  Educated at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Mexico’s Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, and presently working in both Mexico City and Montreal, Meyer typically produces work with international partners, and participates regularly at international festivals (Locarno, Stockholm, Rotterdam).  In this milieu, he offers refracted but precise visions, mostly of Mexico, that engage vigorously with global film traditions, eschewing exoticism for cinematic formulations of the ineffable.  His four feature films to date display a familiar signature and a compelling thematic center, expressing the vastness of solitude, and the epiphanies and purifications that occur on journeys in search of sanctuary, rapture or release.  The Archive is pleased to host Matías Meyer for this first retrospective of his work, also representing Meyer’s first time presenting his work in Los Angeles.

All films directed by Matías Meyer, and in Spanish with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.

Special thanks:  Axolote Cine; Claudia Prado—Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica; Sandro Fiorin, Alex Garcia—FiGa Films; Yisell Ibarra; Monserrat Sanchez—IMCINE (Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía); Daniela Michel, Blas Valdez—Morelia International Film Festival.

Past Programs & Events

Title Date and Time Location
The Last Cristeros

The Last Cristeros  /  The Cramp

Saturday, June 18, 2016 - 7:30 pm Billy Wilder Theater
Verde

Moros y Cristianos  /  El Pasajero  /  Verde

Saturday, June 18, 2016 - 3:00 pm Billy Wilder Theater
Yo

Yo  /  Wadley

Friday, June 17, 2016 - 7:30 pm Billy Wilder Theater