Using text from Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes and ancient Aztec and Mayan poetry, viewers are lead on a visual journey through this country's rich and varied past and present. Stunning images and a dramatic musical score by Daniel Valdez create a vivid, insightful portrait of the Mexican people and their culture
Cinematography
Stunning visual journey from ancient ruins to modern streets.
Score
Daniel Valdez's dramatic music elevates every frame.
Writing
Carlos Fuentes' text meets pre-Columbian poetry — pure magic.
Director
Lorena Parlee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lorena Parlee was a pioneering Latina filmmaker who died in 1998, making this one of her final works.
The film's use of Nahuatl and Mayan poetry alongside Fuentes was radical for 1990s educational cinema — most docs treated Indigenous culture as past tense.
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