L'EAU DE LA SEINE

Directed by Téo Hernandez
France · 1982-1983 · 11'00

Téo Hernandez (Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, 1939 - Paris, France, 1992) was a queer experimental filmmaker who filmed mainly in Super 8mm. In 1958, he created, together with Antonio Campomanes, the Center for Cinematographic Experimentation (CEC) in Mexico. From 1966 onwards, he lived and worked in Paris. In his exploration of the relation between image, movement and body, he maintained a close collaboration with Studio dm (1983), a dance company founded in Paris by Bernardo Montet and Catherine Diverrès, who shaped a choreographic praxis strongly tied to literature and butoh. In France, his works have been linked to Cinéma Corporal or The School of the Body, an artistic research movement surrounding gender and body identity. https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-364-teo-hernandez