I was asked this question in a radio interview very recently, and since I got a chance to give the URL to this blog, I figured people might be arriving here curious about it. Hello, Norwegian P3 listeners! So, there’s a small essay on the Mexploitation genre and its history up. I might add images and whatnot later, but for now, that’s where to go. It also contains some links to the most relevant mexploitation-themed posts on this blog.

This video, titled “Cell phone in microwave”, starts out as a typical “let’s destroy stuff in wacky ways” YouTube video, but isn’t quite that… Nice work, too.

I’ve just spent a few hours getting the content from the old Mexploitation blog online here. It was a bit more work than I expected, especially given some character set issues, and the lack of images, but it should be all fixed now. Feel free to browse backwards and take a look if you haven’t seen it before, there’s quite a bit of decent content here.

The short we did post on for Atole Metafilms a few months back is now on YouTube, after being shown at parties and other improvised screening locations around Mexico. The sound is sadly not great, but apart from that, it turned out fairly ok.

Sorry about the long delays, I’m hoping I’ll get more time to write soon. In the meantime, we’ve been doing some good work. Latest news: We did postproduction supervision on the only Mexican movie this year to go to Cannes, in the Un Certain Regard section. It’s called Los Bastardos, and we finished just on time to get it to the festival, where’s it’s been getting mixed, but generally relatively positive reviews. Apart from the supervision, we also did some VFX previsualization for it, which was fun, and very in tune with genres I like, but I guess I shouldn’t spoil that part of the movie, it’s kind of crucial. Here’s Screen Daily’s review, there’s also Variety’s review, and here’s the Hollywood Reporter.

Oh, and the actual illegal Mexican immigrant to the US who plays an illegal Mexican immigrant to the US in the movie got treated rather badly by French border police when entering the country to attend the festival. Life imitates art, minus the shotgun.

My IMDB page is looking a bit less pathetic too, as a result of all this work, although it’s got a way to go before it matches my partner Øyvind’s page, now that he’s gotten in some of the stuff he’s worked on before.