Edition IV ︎ A Glimpse into Archivo Jotxs ︎ Iñaki Mori
Open Spread: 16” x 11”Closed: 4” x 11”
96 pages - 4 panels
This fourth and bilingual edition of 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘌𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 casts its eye toward Mexican cinema’s queer undercurrent with @archivojotxs, a research archive based in Mexico City that traces 700+ films revealing the presence and erasure of non-heterosexual, non-binary, and trans identities on screen.
Across three seminal film essays:
𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴 (1990, Enrique Gómez Vadillo),
𝘜𝘯𝘢 𝘙𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘢 𝘖𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘥 (1979, Alfredo Salazar), and
𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘰 (2007, Julián Hernández),
this edition dissects the spectral and the erotic as cinematic languages of both resistance and repression. Iñaki Mori fills a critical gap in Mexican film studies, offering a rare and robust history of a neglected cinema.
From Enrique Gómez Vadillo’s subversion of the ‘cine de ficheras’ genre, to Alfredo Salazar’s sapphic horror, to Julián Hernández’s tender reimagining of gay intimacy—these texts unearth the contradictions that have shaped Mexican cinema’s negotiation of sexuality, colorism, nationalism, and class.
The pages of 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘌𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘐𝘝 unfold as a site of cinematic recovery and queer historiography foregrounding lost, censored, and maligned works that expand who has the right to look (and to desire) in Latin American film.
ISBN [Spanish]: 978-1-7383796-5-1
ISBN [English]: 978-1-7383796-4-4
Research and Words: Iñaki Mori of Archivo Jotxs
Concept, Direction, Editing: Afi Venessa Appiah
Design: Afi Venessa Appiah, with the help of Juliette Duhé and Daniel H.
Spanish Title Logotype: Letra Muerta Inc.
CopyEdits [English]: Natalie Co
CopyEdits [Spanish]: Iñaki Mori
Photo Documentation: Letra Muerta Inc.
Hand-Binded at BookArt
Published with the support of Anteism Books and Letra Muerta Inc.
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