Merlín

Pola Weiss' first videoart. It shows a series of images in shape of a flower with different colors with experimental techniques.

TV UNAM’s posthumous tribute documentary program, produced shortly after her death, honors the work of pioneering Mexican video artist Pola Weiss.

Pola Weiss confronts monumental history with romanticized representations of indigeneity, exposing the myths embedded in Mexico’s visual culture. An experimental collage where images of the pyramids of Teotihuacán collide with the romanticized indigenous figures of Jesús Helguera.

Body as signal. City as echo. Pola Weiss dissolves into feedback—gesture, skin, static.

Navideo, 9 min. experimental, l983

A visual poem about the relation between a woman and a city. In this expressionistic piece of work emotional interplays are coloured with synthetic video...

The inspiring life and untimely death of a Mexican artist who, ahead of her time, saw the darkness in the light of the screen and responded by transforming it into art.

The brittleness of sensuality is caught in silk cloths and walls of tin-foil. Erotic visions guide the spectator along moments of love and orgasm up to the dramatic climax of birthgiving.

A poetic video piece in which Weiss alternates between hand-held shots of women that are surviving in the streets of Mexico City and colourful, kaleidoscopic forms. In a very personal style she combines sound, color, abstractions, reportage, rhythm. A unique melange of realism, absurdism and fantastical, a sort of eerie fairytale that holds a profound social commentary. – Mila van der Weide

Salto, 13 min. experimental, l982

Sketch experimental, 1985.