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  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 37 m
Gods of Mexico

Summary With visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, Gods of Mexico is a poetic survey of the vast landscapes and rich diversity of several communities of rural Mexico. Using richly saturated color and hypnotic black-and-white interludes, filmmaker Helmut Dosantos takes viewers through salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, and undergr...

Directed By: Helmut Dosantos

Written By: Helmut Dosantos

  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 37 m

Gods of Mexico

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary With visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, Gods of Mexico is a poetic survey of the vast landscapes and rich diversity of several communities of rural Mexico. Using richly saturated color and hypnotic black-and-white interludes, filmmaker Helmut Dosantos takes viewers through salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, and undergr...

Directed By: Helmut Dosantos

Written By: Helmut Dosantos

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Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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88
Feb 27, 2023
If Gods of Mexico harkens back to certain traditions of visual representation, Helmut Donsantos’s counterintuitive recombination of what would seem to be mutually exclusive inspirations, each with its own temporal framework, allows him to offer for our contemplation a vision uniquely his own.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW
83
Mar 9, 2023
Gods Of Mexico is a film less interested in breaking down its conceptual framework — or even pushing forward a fully realized thesis — than it is about creating a structured cinematic experience.
By Christian Gallichio FULL REVIEW
83
Mar 9, 2023
In Gods of Mexico, we are seeing the Aztec gods still hard at work, not correcting the imperfections of creation, but sitting with us and basking in its glory.
By Jose Solís FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 27, 2023
I prefer my documentaries to be more informative than Gods of Mexico. But that prehistoric cinema connection renders this mesmerizing film as magical as it is historical.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 3, 2023
This nominal portrait of people isn’t interested in what they have to say.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Fulgura Frango, Narvalus Films, Terminal
Release Date Mar 3, 2023
Duration 1 h 37 m
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Awards

DocAviv Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Tacoma Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Caracas Iberoamerican Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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