Super-8 and Archive Material in the Mexican Cinema of the 1970s
By Charlotte Stace
The CCCB hosts Insurgent Images II. Super-8 and Archive Material in the Mexican Cinema of the 1970, a programme that shows how cheap, lightweight cameras transformed film production in 1970s Mexico. With Super-8 and 16mm suddenly accessible, filmmaking became faster, more collective and more political - used as a tool alongside student, feminist and worker movements to challenge official narratives and build a cinema of resistance.
The session focuses on militant filmmakers and collectives like Leobardo López Aretche, Óscar Menéndez, Cine Mujer and the Cooperativa de Cine Marginal, who repurposed archive materials, newsreels and DIY recordings to create new memories outside commercial circuits, screening work in factories, unions and universities rather than traditional cinemas.
You’ll see a selection of short works including Comunicados del Consejo Nacional de Huelga 1, 2 y 4 (1968), Otro país (1972), Víctor Ibarra Cruz (1971) and Y si eres mujer… (1977).