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Manuel Bayo Gisbert

Born July 1, 1997 · Mexico City, Mexico (age 29)

Manuel Bayo Gisbert is a Mexican filmmaker, photographer and journalist. His work examines systemic violence in relation to territory, memory and history. After surviving kidnapping and torture in 2020, he began a long-term, multimedia audiovisual exploration of serious human rights violations in Mexico through collaborative and intimate processes; this project, A Solid Home, explores the history…

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I Remember

I Remember · 2026

This documentary weaves together two stories of disappearance: that of Atzin Molina, my high school friend who vanished in 2019, and that of Atzin, the Totonac rain deity, believed lost or dead amid the oil-driven devastation of Veracruz, Mexico. Through these two figures who share a name—one human, the other divine—the film traces a landscape of absence, where grief, ecological violence, and spiritual erosion become inseparable.

Untitled, Unfinished

Untitled, Unfinished · 2021

Untitled, Unfinished

"This short film was made by printing video stills with a photocopier. I started making it in the last months of 2019, but after my interests and the way I produce work changed drastically in 2020, I no longer had the motivation to finish it. It remains as a snapshot of what could have been."

Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born

Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born · 2019

Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born

An experimental short film exploring the sexuality of a young woman

Portrait of my Dreams Mixing with Her's

Portrait of my Dreams Mixing with Her's · 2020

Portrait of my Dreams Mixing with Her's

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I Remember

I Remember · 2026

This documentary weaves together two stories of disappearance: that of Atzin Molina, my high school friend who vanished in 2019, and that of Atzin, the Totonac rain deity, believed lost or dead amid the oil-driven devastation of Veracruz, Mexico. Through these two figures who share a name—one human, the other divine—the film traces a landscape of absence, where grief, ecological violence, and spiritual erosion become inseparable.

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Untitled, Unfinished

Untitled, Unfinished · 2021

Untitled, Unfinished

"This short film was made by printing video stills with a photocopier. I started making it in the last months of 2019, but after my interests and the way I produce work changed drastically in 2020, I no longer had the motivation to finish it. It remains as a snapshot of what could have been."

Director

Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born

Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born · 2019

Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born

An experimental short film exploring the sexuality of a young woman

Cinematography

Portrait of my Dreams Mixing with Her's

Portrait of my Dreams Mixing with Her's · 2020

Portrait of my Dreams Mixing with Her's

Director