Location

Join us for the screening of the documentary La Historia en la Mirada (Mexico, 2010), which includes previously unseen vintage footage of the Mexican Revolution.

Featuring images saved, preserved and digitally restored by the Filmoteca of the National Autonomous University of Mexico with the support of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, the film portrays the period before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution from the end of the Porfiriato, to the social upheaval and the short-lived government of Madero, to the presence of the lower classes in the figures of Villa and Zapata, and ends with the signing of the 1917 Constitution.

All of these moving images document the action as it unfolds, and were primarily filmed by the Alva brothers, cinematographers of the time. The film thus gives us a compelling and first-hand glimpse into the both the contradictions of the Revolution and the way it rocked the foundations of the people and country.

This documentary is presented in commemoration of the Revolution, observed in Mexico on November 20.
Presented in Spanish with English Subtitles, 78 minutes