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Pre-Columbian Art in Mexico
56 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 14-adult
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Octavio Paz speaks of his childhood in Mixoac, now a suburb of Mexico City. An Aztec shrine nearby was `a kind of doorway that led to another part of Mexican tradition that I didn't know and could only guess at ... mine, yet also distant from me.' Paz introduces us to the complex cosmology of the Aztecs, their notions of time and space, and their symbols, such as the zigzag serpent motif, representing the duality of the life force - rise and fall, growth and death. Also featuring prominently in this film are the great pyramids of Tenayuca, Chichén-Itzá, Teotihuacán and Tajín. We learn that the Mesoamerican religions all share the notion that the gods have sacrificed themselves to create the world, and that human beings must worship so as to keep the gods alive. For these peoples there was no art for art's sake. All the forms in their art and architecture have symbolic meaning.
Credits -
Director
Hector Tajonar
Presenter/Writer
Octavio Paz
Special collaboration
Marie José Paz
Original music
Mario Lavista
Also available in Spanish
