Every time a film is projected, is accelerating their death.
Each projection affects and modifies their support.
The spectacle that is the life of this art also determines its dissolution.
Gian Luca Farinelli
Ambas disciplinas, Lucha Libre y Cine, se funden una vez más en esta publicación en donde imágenes y textos juegan entre sí reviviendo las emociones del pasado. El cine de Lucha Libre está lleno de secuencias delirantes, momentos inolvidables y frases celebres.
Esperalo pronto en tu librería y arena de lucha libre más cercanos!!
Michael Ramos Araizaga holds a B.A. Degree in Ethnohistory from Mexicos Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (National School of History and Anthropology). From 2001 to 2008 he worked in film programming for the Filmoteca UNAM (the Mexican National Universitys Film Archive) And in 2007, thanks to an award from the German Government he produced a documentary film about the Mayan Codex in collaboration with the Technische Universität Dresden.
In 2008, he was awarded a Fulbright-Garcia Robles grant to study a Master Degree in Moving Image Archive Studies at UCLA. Since then, he has conducted internships at the Wende Museum, the Academy Film Archive and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, where he has gained working experience in the preservation of different film formats from super 8 mm to 35 mm nitrate film.
He has ventured as experimental and documentary filmmaker and his works have been screened and selected in various film festivals. His interest in the field of film preservation and restoration are focused in improving the conditions of film, photographic and audiovisual holdings in the archives of Mexico and Latin-America.
In 2009, he was awarded the AMIA-Sony Pictures Scholarship for students wishing to pursue careers in moving image archiving.
Between 2009 and 2010 he directed a documentary film Cassandro, El Exotico and it was awarded with the Best Short Documentary prize at the Short Shorts Film Festival Mexico, also winner of an Honorary Mention for the Best Mexican Film prize in the Mix Mexico Film Festival. Cassandro has been screened in several other festivals in Mexico, USA and France.
In June 2010 Centro Vlady of Mexico City hosted a retrospective of Ramos Araizaga's experimental works.
On going project about a particular kind of mexican
wrestlers always reproached and loved, Los Exóticos
with the participation of the biggest stars in Mexican wrestling.
Cassandro, El Exótico
(México/USA-2010) 23 min.
A lucid view on an extraordinary character, recognized and loved or reviled by the crowd of wrestling fans. The documentary follows Cassandro in a moment on the hard work which is being an Exotico wrestler.
Screenings and Awards
MUESTRA DE BECARIOS Y EX-BECARIOS FULBRIGHT-GARCIA ROBLES 2011
México, DF
TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL 2011
Rennes,France.
* Special Guest
SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL MÉXICO 2010
Mexico, DF
* Winner of Best Short Documentary
FESTIVAL MIX MÉXICO: FESTIVAL DE DIVERSIDAD SEXUAL EN CINE Y VIDEO 2010
* Winner of an Honorific Mention for the Award to the best Mexican film.
FRONTERA PRIDE FILM FESTIVAL 2010
El Paso, Tx
* Official Selection
UTEPs Rainbow Miner Initiative (RMI) Queer History Month -Trans-gender Day of Remembrance.
* Encore Screening
Short film made in the Film Workshop coordinated by Michael Ramos Araizaga in the Jacinto Canek High School of Ecatepec, México under the patronage of the Organization of Iberoamerican States in the Program Open Schools for Equity, Youth Workshops Against Violence.
My personal homage to mexican wrestling, an odissey through the mistery and magic of lucha libre, all the things that a fan makes to meets his wrestling idol.
Sometimes the movies can be found in the most odd places and it can be very rewarding.
Special selection of the
Escenarios 2011
Encuentro Internacional de Cine Documental
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica
México, D.F.
El Hindú
(México-2011) 3 min.
Visual experimentation that recycles images from the film 'Rocambole contra las Mujeres Arpias' seeking contradiction between the super fracture of the initial force and the predicted direct action of sufficient reflection.
Cineteca Nacional
Rosita, El Espejo
(México-2009) 3 min.
A woman discovers the horrible truth...
Experimental film made using footage from the film El Espejo de la bruja, homage to Rosita Arenas.
Official Selection of
Expresión en Corto Film Festival 2009
Special Program
"It´s all been done before but not by me"
Hammer Museum and the University of California, Los Angeles, April 2010.
Macabro Film Festival of Horror 2011
Rattenkönig
(México-2010) 1 min.
Piece created for the interactive DVD of Domenico Capello, created from images of the films Nosferatu (1979) Killer Rats (2003), Willard (2003), The Rats (2002), Night of Terror (1984), Deadly Eyes (1982 ) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).
Evangelina, Belleza en tres actos
(México-2008) 12 min.
Tribute to Evangelina Elizondo made with clips from the film Los Platillos Voladores.
Lorena (Thorina, Hersilia, Beta)
(México-2005) 15 min.
Lorena Velázquez Tribute made with fragments of films Santo contra las Mujeres Vampiro, El Rapto de las Sabinas and La Nave de los Monstruos.
Experimental short film shown at the UNAM's Centro Cultural Universitario on October 18, 2006
Aqui llamando al Santo
por Olimpia Avila Del Angel.
Aquí llamando al Santo.pdf
Lavud
Homage to Germain Robles made with clips from the film El Vampiro.
Exhibited at the Festival Macabro de Horror en Cine y Video 2005
Heroes
(México-2008) 11 min.
Tribute to mexican wrestlers Huracán Ramirez, Lobo Negro, Frankestein and Wolf Rubinski made from old wrestling films presented at the 75 th anniversary of Mexican wrestling.
Moda-Mode
(México-2006) 8 min.
Video poem based on the poem MODA by Jose Emilio Pacheco, made newsreels and old porn movies.
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