Marcos Arriaga Movies

A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.

Personifying Mother Earth, she walks through her domain. She observes her environment and what has happened to it. She weeps. She feels violated. Not...

Director Clint Alberta takes us on a hilarious and bittersweet journey into the hearts and minds of some very ordinary, extraordinary young...

This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the...

A short experimental film that explores ancients natives cities in America. Images of Machu Pichu, Sacsayhuaman, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, and Mesa Verde...

My Gentrification is a documentary film consisting of two independent sections that explore my experiences and observations about housing, urban...

In his most ravishing and heartbreaking work, Arriaga ventures again to his native Peru in search of a lost friend. Along the way he encounters the...

Assembly is a short film that illustrates the struggle of the working class in Peru, in relation to the global workers movement. The grainy images,...

These three short films consist of perceptive depictions of a public square in Lima, the view from his mother's rooftop, and work at the Toronto Film...