Octavio Paz (Bookmark)
1988-89 BBC 50’
An absorbing 50’ film, made for the BBC2 series ‘Bookmark’, about the great Mexican poet and essayist.
Filmed across two days in Octavio Paz’s apartment in Mexico City, this documentary was constructed from two separately filmed sequences that were then interwoven (and to which images were subsequently added) during the editing . The first consisted of a long conversation (conducted by MD from behind the camera), in which Octavio talked eloquently in English about his life and work. The second consisted of a carefully chosen selection of his poetry, read by him in Spanish.
