Mexican Cinema. Shared Visions

La fórmula secreta
La fórmula secreta (The Secret Formula)
Rubén Gámez
Mexico, 1965
35mm | 43min. | BW | VOSF

Production:
Salvador López, Rubén Gámez

Screenplay:
Santos Núñez
Photography:
Rubén Gámez
Music:
Vivaldi, Stravinsky, Leonardo Velázquez
 
Sinopsis

A totally free black-and-white film essay. La fórmula secreta is a complex series of images that depict a very different Mexico to the one portrayed in the films of the time. Gámez shows a country fast losing its identity: dry, barren lands full of the living dead, country labourers who refuse to disappear, to leave the stage.

 
Festivals

Grand Prix - Kurzfilmfestival Oberhausen 1966
Premio - Primer Concurso de Cine Experimental Ciudad de México 1965