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Pola Weiss studied communication in Mexico City's most famous university: UNAM, graduating with the first video thesis. After that, she travelled around the world to study video, and returned to Mexico to create her first piece: Flor Cósmica. She continued making videoart, and although she was recognized as an important artist in Europe, her fame in Mexico started after her death.
Total trailers found: 21
01 January 1981
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.
03 December 1980
Pola Weiss confronts monumental history with romanticized representations of indigeneity, exposing the myths embedded in Mexico’s visual culture.
01 January 1978
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.
24 July 2023
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.
13 May 1990
TV UNAM’s posthumous tribute documentary program, produced shortly after her death, honors the work of pioneering Mexican video artist Pola Weiss.
05 January 1977
Pola Weiss' first videoart. It shows a series of images in shape of a flower with different colors with experimental techniques.
01 January 1978
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.
05 February 1984
Body as signal. City as echo. Pola Weiss dissolves into feedback—gesture, skin, static.
11 October 1979
A visionary pioneer of Mexican video art and videodance, Pola Weiss transforms the boundaries between body, camera, and television into a deeply autobiographical exploration of identity, urban life, and emotional fragmentation.
