Rulfo's centennial celebrated with TV series

Juan Rulfo turned one hundred on May 16, 2017, and that same night, to celebrate, an episode of the series One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo premiered at the Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The episode chosen for the event is perhaps one that reveals a little-known facet of the figure: The Images of Rulfo, about his passion for photography, which actually predates his writing.

With a full house in the venue's courtyard, the open-air screening was attended by the series' director, Juan Carlos Rulfo; his brother, Juan Pablo; the producer Eugenia Montiel Pagés; the screenwriter Marina Stavenhagen; the composer Gerardo Tamez; and the academic Douglas Weatherford, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature at Brigham Young University, USA — as well as the writer Benito Taibo, who moderated the post-screening conversation.

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo is a seven-episode TV series that will premiere in November across the country, on public channels and digital platforms.

In this episode about photography, “we go looking for where he took them, it takes us on a wandering journey and each photo has a story. We like to follow the traveler and we feel something like nostalgia when we find the place and arrive in a space he stood in. Each photo is a journey and each journey relates to a literary construction that helped a lot in framing his work,” Juan Carlos explains.