Chronograph I

Zapping Animation is an international collective animation project launched in the context of World Animation Day 2010, with the aim of paying tribute to Émile Reynaud. The animators who participated in Zapping Animation are: Salvador Tovar, Salvador Herrera, Tania de León, Juan Carlos López, Claudio Ramírez Castelli, Lein de León, Carlos Narro, Ma. Carmen Poveda, Elizabeth Ortiz, Jorge Álvarez, María Lorenzo, Sara Álvarez, Rosa Peris, Carmen Lloret, Eva Mocholí, Simón Gerbaud, Eduardo Patoni, Mercedes Peris, Carlos Gamboa, Miguel Vidal, Zulu, José Ángel García Moreno, Héctor Dávila, Mónica Alós, María Ángeles López, Wisab, Miguel Ángel Guillem, and Emiliano González.

The change of light during the day and the generated shadows in a small forest is the environment where the gestural drawings dance.

An animated drawing about the generational time in my family

The mother-queen-child-cannibal-larva sleeps, not knowing what it means to be awake. She sleeps until the egg disappears, until the universe consumes her and she becomes nothing. Animated linocut print based on a story by Victor Argueta.

Soñé con Zapata (I Dreamed of Zapata) – “Soñé con Zapata” is an experimental short film that explores the migrant experience from a poetic and sensory perspective, articulating the concepts of memory, identity, and displacement through moving images and sound design. The work is set within the context of Mexico’s complex relationship with migration—as a country of origin, transit, and destination—and proposes an intimate reflection that seeks to build empathy. Based on a fragmented narrative, the short film constructs an emotional journey where the personal sphere intertwines with the collective. “Soñé con Zapata” is conceived as an act of poetic and cultural resistance that re-signifies a fundamental icon of Mexican history, drawing inspiration from the choreography “Zapata” (1953) by Guillermo Arriaga. The work invites reflection on the links between body, territory, and freedom, offering no closed answers but rather opening a space for interpretation and dialogue.