Private Project

Pola Weiss

Pola Weiss was the pioneer of videoart and videodance in Mexico; a virtually unknown figure in her own country. Thirty years after her tragic death, her life story is finally told through the diaries, videos, letters, and pictures of her personal archive, revealing the great significance and timeliness of her work and legacy.

  • Alejandra Lucía Arrieta Méndez
    Director
  • Alejandra Lucía Arrieta Méndez
    Writer
  • Sabino Alva Pulido
    Writer
  • Alejandra Lucía Arrieta Méndez
    Producer
  • Sabino Alva Pulido
    Producer
  • Sergio Matamoros Conejo
    Photography
  • Iker Moranchel Weiss
    Original Music
  • Sabino Alva Pulido
    Sound
  • Pamela Casasa
    Sound
  • Andrés García Franco
    Postproduction
  • Sabino Alva Pulido
    Edition
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Pola Weiss Documental
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Feature
  • Genres:
    Biography, Drama, Feminist
  • Runtime:
    2 hours 10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 7, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    2,500,000 MXN
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Guanajuato International Film Festival
    León, San Miguel de Allende, Irapuato
    Mexico
    July 23, 2023
    World Premiere
  • Docs MX
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    October 13, 2023
  • UltraCinema
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    October 29, 2023
  • TiDF26 Agora Doc Market
    Thessaloniki
    Greece
  • 55e Visions du Réel Market
    Nyon
    Switzerland
Director Biography - Alejandra Lucía Arrieta Méndez

Alejandra Arrieta is a documentary filmmaker, writer and researcher, interested in the moving image as a theoretical, artistic and philosophical expression. She holds a Master of Arts with Distinction in Film and Screen Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London (FONCA-CONACYT). Her work in archival, non-fiction and experimental film and television has been presented in important cultural spaces in Mexico, such as the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo MUAC, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and Museo Tamayo. She is also a curator of moving image and has written for cultural publications in Mexico and the UK.

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Director Statement

Pola Weiss (2023) is about a late fundamental artist for the history of contemporary art –considered the pioneer of video art in Mexico– whose work was extremely visionary in relation to screens, technology, feminism and the body, but yet remained unrecognized in the sexist society of 70’s Mexico. Since her artistic practice is categorically autobiographical, there is a historical need to understand her work through the knowledgeability of her life; a need to which this film responds with a research much more extensive than any previous academic or audiovisual attempt.