Rafael Corkidi

A tragic celestial western that explores a surrealist point of view of the lost paradise by Adam and Eve.

The hero of the people is Anapu, who extracts water from a rock, befriends, baptises and makes out with Mary Magdalene, consoles the downtrodden, makes peace with fighting brothers, raises the dead, licks men and women clean, etc. In between, he does a lot of soul-searching wandering through the country-side, mingling with the various common folk and natives and discussing their problems, upcoming dangers and their lack of unity, the locals frequently breaking out in ethnic song and dance.

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming home to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and some pretentious narration making poetic statements about sin.

The controversial, sexy, surreal story of a messenger and his journey and encounters with many historical events and people like Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!).

Short video showing Mexican dancers.

Corkidi takes the figure of Christ, with his opposition to the established order, as his point of departure in constructing a parable of the contemporary human condition and its suffocating circumstances.

Short documentary directed by Rafael Corkidi (cinematographer in Jodorowsky's films). It shows Mexico in 1968.