New mexican documentary and the borders of representation

Abstract

This paper studies documentary film produced in Mexico during the first ten years of the Twenty First Century. The first section is focused on the aesthetic and ideological borders of contemporary documentary. The second section is focused on key documentaries produced in its first hundred years in Mexico. Then the focus is placed on recent creation of festivals, archives, and strategies of distribution and exhibition. The paper ends commenting on some documentaries produced during the decade under study (2000– 2010).