“My father has always been present in my work but he is still an inexhaustible subject.”
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo, on November 30
On November 30 the documentary TV series One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo, directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo, premiered at the Cineteca Nacional. It launched simultaneously across the country on Canal 22.
One Hundred Years... is a seven-episode series about Juan Rulfo, his lasting impact, his love for Mexico and his many creative facets — from his obvious contribution to world literature to his work in anthropology, cinema and photography, which are perhaps less known.
A look built from letters, photographs and careful documentary research, but also from testimony by people like Günther Grass, Eduardo Galeano, Werner Herzog, Ignacio López Tarso, Elena Poniatowska, Juan Villoro, María Rojo, Blanca Guerra, Jean-Claude Carrière and Rodolfo Stavenhagen, to name a few.
Making the series has taken Juan Carlos Rulfo down unexpected paths. Beyond traveling to many corners of Mexico, retracing his father's steps, he has discovered new sides of Rulfo. “My father has always been present in my work but he is still an inexhaustible subject,” he notes.
Each episode is self-contained and dedicated to a specific theme:
1. Toward El llano en Llamas
2. Pedro Páramo, the craft of writing
3. The images of Rulfo
4. A man of cinema
5. The Mexico of Juan Rulfo
6. The dignity of silence
7. One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
The series is currently available on Amazon Prime