DETROIT'S RIVERA

Documentary | 2017 | Col & B/W | 35m

Summary

A documentary on the process of production of Diego Rivera´s Detroit Industry Frescos (1932-3) and the murals´ agitated social context during the years of the Great Depression. The documentary´s remarkable archival montage explores the links between industrial labor, public art, and industrial cinema under the exigencies of Fordism. The treatment of Rivera´s murals and Frida Kahlo´s paintings in the documentary provide novel grounds for a discussion of their art´s diverging approaches to the ecological and human effects of industrial technologies and extractivism.

Director: Ramos Julio
Type: Documentary
Year of completion: 2017
Country of origin: Puerto Rico

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