Flexing Muscles
a movie by charles fairbanks
21 minutes, Mexico / USA, 2012
Flexing Muscles is a wrestling movie about postmodern consumption and production: physical work and embodied culture for the digital age. Flexing Muscles is also an immersive, participatory, experimental ethnography on Mexico's spectacular masked wrestling – Lucha Libre – for which the filmmaker resumed his career fighting as The One-Eyed Cat (El Gato Tuerto), this time with a camera built into his mask. |
Featuring: Serpiente Negra, Místico, Gronda, Pitufín, Blue Demon, Black Boy, Smoke
Select Screenings: Visions du Réel, Morelia International Film Festival, DocsDF, ICDocs, Athens International Film & Video Festival, Anthology Film Archives
Awarded: Second Prize at ICDocs