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Poli Marichal Lugo is a printmaker, filmmaker, and illustrator. She is considered a pioneer of experimental cinema in Puerto Rico, working in Super 8 and 16 mm formats since the 1980s.
Total trailers found: 17
02 January 1982
Experimental Super 8 film featuring animated 3-D puppets based on the characters in Picasso’s painting.
02 January 1987
Experimental film which incorporates a range of materials, ink, coloring pencils, watercolors, and graphite, to narrate the story of a woman who is transformed into a cat while she drinks the celebrated beverage of the island, coffee.
02 January 1983
Tale about the fragility of power, the story of a David and a Goliath. Animated frame by frame with modeling clay on a light box's glass.
02 January 1998
Combines animation and documentary footage to illustrate the origins and impact of the musical genres Bomba and Plena in Puerto Rican culture.
02 January 1984
Hand painted, scratched Super 8 film meditating on Puerto Rico's political status through the layering of traditional Bomba music and governmental speeches.
02 January 1991
Biographical production that recreates the work of this artist, adoptive son of Puerto Rico, who stood out as a musician, photographer, filmmaker, producer, illustrator, etc.
02 January 1988
Musings about what it means to travel, let the imagination fly, and to escape from reality. Combines documentary footage, animation on paper, and hand-painted and scratched film.
02 January 1983
First part of the Trilogy of the Island in which Poli Marichal expresses and vents the anger and frustration caused by the colonial situation.
02 January 1987
Animated documentary highlighting the importance of protecting the environment and conserving it through the care and cultivation of flora and fauna.
02 January 1981
Hand painted, scratched animated Super 8 film examining the contradictions of the psychopathology of colonization.
02 January 1982
This work recreates the spirit of frustration and is the result of scratching and painting the tiny super 8 mm frame without magnification.
02 January 1987
Animated documentary that collects the Christian tradition of the visit of the Three Wise Men to the manger where Jesus was born and adds elements typical of Puerto Rican national folklore.
01 January 1985
Artist / filmmaker Poli Marichal was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and resides in Los Angeles, CA since 1989.
12 October 1994
Teresa accidentally comes across Pablo, her old college love. Fifteen years ago, they had each left their country believing the other dead at the hands of a military dictatorship, and they must now come to terms with their past.
02 January 1987
One night, while celebrating at home with friends during the San Sebastián Street Festival, a pregnant woman is visited by three characters, who could be unfoldings of herself, and take her on an inner journey in search of her identity.
17 March 2006
The film is set in the island of Puerto Rico. Because of its central location in the Caribbean, the island has become one of the main ports of drug entry from South America into the United States.
02 January 1990
Combines animation, documentary footage, and hand-painted film as well as slide projections, a painted 12" x 24" backdrop, and sculptural palm tree to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Puerto Rican psyche.
