Five minutes of buried footage that will haunt you longer than most blockbusters.
“Archeology” and “Archive” share the same roots. Both words come from “Arkhé”, the Greek word for “origin”. In the ruins of buildings, lost forever by earthquakes, as in the depth of the archives, we dig. What happened the morning of the big earthquake? The morning of September 19th 1985 is fading away in our memories. These recordings have never been seen. Unedited images of the catastrophe dug out by the archaeological adventure of an archivist that suffered with them. He dug and suffered until he could no longer see.
Direction
Navarro treats footage like sacred ground—no sensationalism, just reverence.
Editing
The archivist's hands bridge 38 years in single cuts.
Director
Armando Navarro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake killed 10,000+ and reshaped Mexican civil society—this film treats that history as living wound, not past event.
Director Armando Navarro is himself an archivist; the 'he' in the narration is deliberately ambiguous between narrator and filmmaker.
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