Flesh that remembers

  • Dalia Huerta Cano
The story of 9 parts of the body of persons that suffer changes throughout a year. The animations about body modifications by growth, aesthetics or pathologies are illustrated with stories and images of spaces that surrounded each character.

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Festivals / Screenings:

  • Morelia Film Fest (Official selection, Mexico) / 2010
  • Docs DF (Official selection, Mexico) / 2010
  • Interfilm Berlin (Official selection, Germany) / 2010
  • Cinemaissi (Official selection, Finland) / 2010
  • Imagine Science Film Festival (Official selection, United States) / 2011
  • FIBABC (Official selection, Spain) / 2011
  • Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara (Screening, Mexico) / 2011
  • Celebrate Mexico Now (Screening, United States) / 2011
  • Semaine de la Critique Cannes (Screening, France) / 2011
  • Docstown  (Official selection, Mexico) / 2012
  • Cine y video experimental de México (Screening, Mexico) / 2012
  • Globians Documentary Film Festival (Official selection, Germany) / 2012

Read the blog (mostly in spanish)

http://carnequerecuerda.blogspot.mx/

Credits

A film by: Dalia Huerta Cano

Characters: Diego Flores Aymes, “El chino”, Sebastián Silva Cuellar, Len Valboca, Ricardo Chaurand Perezverdía, Frida Coello Coutiño, Emmilú López Valtierra, Luis Carlos Fausto Rosas, Lourdes Camaño Vargas

Music: Homero González, Esteban De la Monja Casar, Piscis

Assessors: Andrés Padilla Domene,  José Villalobos Romero, Rigo Mora

Assistants: Noé Aldapa, Patricia Ruíz Achurra

Support: Consejo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes, Secretaría de Cultura Jalisco, Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, Astro Estudio

“For a formally ambitious, poetic and visceral exploration of the human body’s capacity to recover..“

(Closure Morelia International Film Festival) 

Award Best Mexican Documentary Short Film at Morelia International Film Festival / October 2010

Award Best Mexican Short Film at 5to Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de la Ciudad de México DocsDF / October 2010

Award Best Cinematography on Documentary Short Film – given by the A.M.C. Asociación Mexicana de Cinematografía at Docs DF / October 2010

Nomination to Golden Key Award at Kassel Documentary Film and Video Fest / November 2010 

Special screening for the winners at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia on the 50th edition of la Semaine de la Critique at Cannes / May 2011