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Mauricio Guillén

Avenida Progreso

Fiction | 16mm | noir et blanc | 20:0 | Mexique | 0

Mr. Jocotot, a philosophy and ethics professor, has just collected final exams from his students and, unlike most other days, decides to take a taxi home. As he turns onto Avenida Progreso, a prominent street in Mexico City, he will come up against corruption and his ignorance will teach him a lesson.

Mauricio Guillén was born in México city in 1971. He studied at Parsons School in Paris, The Cooper Union in New York City and The Royal College of Art in London England. He currently lives in Frankfurt Germany where last summer, as part of an exhibition of his work, he presented the film AVENIDA PROGRESO at MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main).