Sábado de mierda explained

Sábado de mierda
Director:Gregorio Rocha
Starring:Rafa Punk
Runtime:25 minutes
Country:Mexico
Language:Spanish

Sábado de mierda ("Saturday of Shit") is a 1988 Mexican film by Gregorio Rocha and his then-partner Sarah Minter, shot between 1985 and 1987.[1] The film is one of four independent films of the 1985–1991 period focusing on the lives of punk gangs in the Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl ("Neza York") suburb of Mexico City.[2] The specific gang was a group known as Mierdas Punks ("Shit Punks"), who were also featured in the documentaries Nadie es inocente (also by Minter), and La neta no hay futuro by Andrea Gentile.[3] The film is classified as a semi-documentary.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. 9 November 2012. 2005. University of Minnesota Press.
  2. Book: Debroise, Olivier. La ERA de la Discrepancia: Arte Y Cultura Visual en México, 1968-1997. 9 November 2012. 2006. UNAM. 978-970-32-3829-3. 266–.
  3. News: Solís. Alberto. Ciudad Neza, viejo territorio punk. El Universal. 4 December 2006.
  4. Book: Discourse: Berkeley Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. 9 November 2012. 2001. Indiana University Press.