Movie: Of Present Body (or the perpetual spirals of pleasure and power)

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    Through the montage of film fragments from the Mexican Golden Cinema, pain, violence, repressed sexuality and Mexicanness are explored. This production is part of a twelve-short film project entitled "Enredando Sombras".

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    1998-01-01

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