From here, from this side

Using mostly stock-shots, this documentary-collage how the North-South relationship—illustrated by the most dramatic one in the world, prevailing between The United States of Mexico and The United States of America—is perceived “from this side”, the Mexican one. Robert Redford, Pedro Armendariz, Paul Newman, Maria Felix and Superman are, in a certain way, the starts acting the economical and cultural differences between the “central” and the “peripherial” countries. Post modernism leads them to a kind of loneliness that they share only with the rest of the world. This video can’t be shown in Mexican Television because of the ex-president Lopez Portillo’s sequence affects the “image-myth” of presidential power in Mexico. Also because the medias don’t dare to share a “radical” vision of the Northern neighbour. Nevertheless, it has been shown in “domestic” projections, in the Festival of Rio, in the Festival of la Havana, where it was selected for Oberhausen Festival and INPUT ’88. This documentary—not broadcasted yet—can help to think about the possibilities that “peripheral” countries might have necessary ex-change for mutual and better understanding.