Movies: Carlos Illescas

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin....

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run....

A tragic celestial-western that explores Adam and Eve's paradise from a surreal point of view....

People's hero is Anapu... He extracts the water from a rock, befriends, and baptize and get it to Mary Magdalene, konsolerar the oppressed, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lo...

This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix ...

Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)...

A short film about the famous mexican artist, whose work revolved mostly around depictions of the mexican society as skeletons....

A 30 minute short directed by Rafael Cordiki. Plot unavailable at this time...

Short film about the exhibition of the works of Mexican painter José Alfaro Siqueiros at the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte de Ciudad Universitaria in 1967....

A short documentary film about Mexican plastic artist Rufino Tamayo...

Short film, 11 minutes long, no plot currently available...