LUCINDA URRESTI: Painter

(LUCINDA URRESTI: PINTORA)

Juan Francisco Urrusti Alonso / Mexico, Spain / 2020 / 90 min
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  • FilmArte Festival Berlin

    Best Director

  • WorldFest Houston

    Special Jury Remi Award for Documentary Feature

  • Overcome Film Festival

    Best Documentary Story in a Feature Film

  • Alternative Indie Pro Fest

    Best Art Documentary

  • Indie Doc Pro Film Festival

    Best Biographical Doc

  • LeFIFA International Festival of Films on Art

  • San Francisco Latino Film Festival

  • San Diego Latino Film Festival

  • Paris Art and Movie Awards

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Born in 1926 in the Spanish Moroccan city of Melilla, the painter Lucinda Urrusti arrived in Mexico in 1939 with her family, as refugees from the Spanish Civil War. Produced and directed by her nephew, Juan Francisco Urrusti, this intimate documentary is built around interviews conducted with her from 2012 to 2017, immersing us in the artistic universe of this Mexican artist whose work is still little known.

Lucinda Urrusti was part of Mexico’s Generación de la Ruptura, a group of artists that broke away from the dominant Mexican muralism of the first half of the 20th century. In her work, the artist employs an informalist language, halfway between figuration and abstraction, with a strong element of technical experimentation. She is also recognized as a portraitist of a significant number of personalities from Mexican cultural and scientific life such as Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paza, and Juan Rulfo.

Urrusti’s work is recognized not only in the artistic environment but also in the literary sphere, by poets and writers. The includes the participation of writer Jaime Moreno-Villarreal, art researcher Eduardo Espinosa-Campos, and artist Manuel Felguérez.

Press

“Lucinda Urrusti, the paintbrush of the Spanish Republican exile who immortalized García Márquez. A documentary directed by her nephew, Juan Francisco Urrusti, recovers the life of the artist, privileged witness of the Mexican bohemia of the second half of the 20th century and portraitist of Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, and Juan Rulfo.” – Alejandro Santos Cid, El País

About the Director
Juan Francisco Urrusti Alonso was born in Born in Mexico City in 1954. He enrolled in the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia. But he only stayed there just for a year and a half, before enrolling in a two-year course in Filmmaking at The London International Film School. In 2010 he got a degree in Communication Sciences in Mexico City.
Urrusti Alonso has directed and produced several documentaries, the majority of which are Ethnographic. He was Head of the Film and Video Production Dept. at the Archivo Etnográfico Audiovisual of the Instituto Nacional Indigenista from 1985 to 1989. There, he was executive producer of seven documentaries. He has been a teacher of Documentary at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) in Mexico City since 1989, and at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC/UNAM) since 2016. Urrusti has given lectures and workshops in several Mexican cities, and also at universities in Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, Spain, and the USA. He is currently working on two documentaries about Mexican artists.
He has also directed the Mexico City Film Commission from 2001 to 2005. In 2011 he founded the ARTES.DOCS International Encounter of Documentary Films About The Arts, which has had four editions so far. He is currently working on the fifth.
Notes on Film

“What pushed me to make this film was my aunt’s art, and her lifelong struggle to become a true artist, from the time when she was only a teenager to our days. That said, she is a wonderful and very generous human being.”

– Juan Francisco Urrusti, Director

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