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Tina In Mexico

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Visual Arts • 1h 17m

Directed by Brenda Longfellow • Documentary • 2004 • 60 minutes

A new independent feature documentary by acclaimed Canadian director Brenda Longfellow, TINA IN MEXICO, follows the tumultuous and epic story of Tina Modotti, revolutionary, bohemian spirit and renowned photographer, acclaimed for her innovative and impassioned depiction of social issues.

Longfellow's film weaves archival footage, the luminous photographs of Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, the murals of Diego Rivera, and lyrical re-enactments, to conjure up the political, artistic and intimate spaces of their lives in Mexico during the 1920s. Drawing on Edward Weston's daybooks, the collected letters of Tina Modotti and imaginative recreations, TINA IN MEXICO is told through the voices of Tina, Edward, and their contemporaries.

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20th century, americas, area studies, art and architecture, artists, biography, bullfrog films, critical thinking and ethics, cultural and ethnic studies, diego rivera, edward weston, expository, gender studies, history, latin american history, latin american studies, mexico, multicultural studies, ovid, philosophy, photographers, photography, s_0001, s_0029, s_0171, s_0201, s_0219, s_0220, s_0290, s_0370, s_0469, s_0508, s_0638, s_0661, sociology, sociology of art, the, the politics of art, tina in mexico, tina modotti, title_t, visual arts, women's studies, world history, world regions

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