Rafael Corkidi Acriche (May 20, 1930 - September 18, 2013) was a Mexican filmmaker and videographer who collaborated, as director of photography with Alejandro Jodorowsky in the tapes Fando and Lis (1968), El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain(1973). He was the director of the first Mexican and Latin American feature film made entirely in video format, Figures of Passion (1983).
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04 July 1974
Biopic: the last year or so in the life of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatan in the early 1920s.
29 November 1973
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system.
01 January 1972
Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her.
18 December 1970
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
10 November 1983
Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.
01 June 1960
An experimental film in which time breaks again and again at the moment of death, where the seconds become whole lives condemned.
01 January 1974
A 30 minute short directed by Rafael Cordiki. Plot unavailable at this time
09 September 1965
When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to steal more billiard balls in hopes of making money.
04 January 1969
A series of visual haikus that reflect the sexually-charged and politically heated times.
08 June 1972
Fando and his partially paralysed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar.
01 January 2010
Three stories make up this film, each with a teacher as the protagonist of the struggle against the many deficiencies of our country´s educational system.
27 October 1977
Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!
10 August 1973
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
02 September 1965
Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings.
02 September 1965
First of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). It narrates the encounters and misunderstandings of a pair of lovers during the years, from their adolescence to maturity.
08 December 1972
A tragic celestial-western that explores Adam and Eve's paradise from a surreal point of view.
12 October 1968
Experimental documentary short film with a prologue by José Revueltas about the 1968 Mexico City Ols
10 February 1978
Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else.
06 March 1975
Anapu is the people's hero. He extracts water from a rock, befriends, and baptizes it, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean.
01 January 1992
Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican Revolution, tells the story of her beloved, Matilde Arcangel, who was stolen from him by his boss, from whom he gives birth a child.
01 January 1984
This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens.
04 November 1965
Luisa returns to her village, where she cares for her uncle on his deathbed, who tells her the story of his life with a hidden purpose.
01 January 1969
Short film about the exhibition of the works of Mexican painter José Alfaro Siqueiros at the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte de Ciudad Universitaria in 1967.
01 January 1965
This short film focuses on Mexican artist José Luis Cuevas, who through his work challenged the conventions of Mexican muralism.
01 January 1974
A pair of spies disguised as tourists are stalked by mysterious figures in Mexico's most attractive locations.
01 January 1972
A surrealist musical short, featuring folkloric dance and stark Mexican landscapes, in honor of the 1972 World Cup.
01 December 1989
Written, produced, photographed, directed, and manipulated during performance by Rafael Corkidi, the "video theater" Querida Benita (1989) is a spectacle that breaks with the formats of film and video by situating itself in a sui generis setting (the Manuel M.
