Lola Creel

Lola Creel is a Mexican film director who served as the National Coordinator of the Special Projects Unit of the National Council for Culture and the Arts from 2001 to 2004. She was also the director of the International Festival of Video and Electronic Arts in 2002, and has experience as a documentary artist, video artist and director of both television and radio. She has been for more than 30 years doing experimental films related with poetry, and documentaries about different poets and artists from Mexico and United States.

Biography

Creel directed the Special Project Unit supported by the Council of Arts in Mexico from 2001 to 2004. The Unit was dedicated to the development of digital Arts in Mexico, and was created to support the public awareness for appreciation of the new and emerging digital Art forms. She directed, edited, and produced the film Journey of Hanuman during 2004 to 2013. A film that tried to preserve moments of India that have not been disturbed by globalization. Scenes are linked with the poems of Nobel prize poet Octavio Paz and underwater images related to the epic "The Ramayana".[1] The film was selected for the Raindance Film Festival in September 2013[2]

Creel was the producer of the TV series "Encuentros" private television Mexico "Televisa" in 1975 and 1976 which contained round tables with recognized world artists. Participants included John Houston, Frank Capra, Costa Gavras, Roman Polanski. She was the writer and producer of Radio Universidad in 1985 and 1986 (University Autonomous Mexico) and directed a series of radio programmes from 1992 to 2000 Series Divagarte, and Series Horizon XXI on Education Radio. She was also the producer of private and institutional music concerts in 1993 and 1994, Academia Nacional de Medicina: Latin American Quartet and also Congreso Nacional de Reumatología: Prieto Quartet.

Creel directed films of contemporary Mexican poets: 2000-2003 Jose Juan Tablada, Alfonso Reyes, Carlos Pellicer,[3] Xavier Villaurrutia,[4] Jorge Cuesta, Octavio Paz, Jose Gorostiza[5]

  • Directed documentaries about American poets and artists, 1996-2000 W.S Merwin,[6] W.D Snodgrass, Billy Collins, Georgia O'Keeffe.
  • Directed documentaries: 1997-2000, Theater and Revolution, Calendars, Octavio Paz, American Poetry I, and American Poetry II.
  • Directed Series of Creators Emeritus in Mexico: 1997-1999, Architect Teodoro, Gonzalez de Leon (Fate and Creation), Architect Ricardo Legorreta (A man in the Architectural Path), Artist Vicente Rojo (The Double Memory)
  • Directed series of documentaries: 2000-2004 (90 TV documentaries dedicate to art, The Video on the Flight of the Poem, Fragments of City, The Voices of Sight, Open Doors, The Cat's Step, Light in the Retina, Unlimited Zone, and others.. More than 90 documentaries.
  • Directed the International Video and Electronic Art Festival in Mexico City Vidarte 2002[7]
  • Producer: 2002-2003, Special homage to Bill Viola in Mexico on the Palace of Arts.

Exhibition of Video Artist Peter Campus in Mexico city with collaboration of curator David Ross.[8]

Performance of Joan Jonas in Mexico City with collaboration of curator David Ross.

Exhibition of ¨Lorna Simpson in Mexico City with collaboration of David Ross.

  • Film Journey of Hanuman 2004-2013

Collaborators: Kronos Quartet-Music. Krishna Bhatt-Music. Peter Coyote-Voice Over. Ron Fricke-Cinematography. Christy Lee Rogers-Underwater Photography. Lars Herrmann-Photography. Eliot Weinberger- Translation of Octavio paz Poems. Richard Levien-Postproduction supervisor. Special Effects Collaborator. Sky sound George Lucas Ranch: Jonathan Greber- Sound Andre Zweers- Sound Mix and Editing Steve Boeddeker- Sound design

Creel is the sister of senator and former interior secretary Santiago Creel Miranda.

References
  1. ""Journey of Hanuman" A film by Lola Creel-Long Trailer". Vimeo. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  2. "journey-of-hanuman". Raindance Film Festival. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  3. "Poet Carlos Pellicer "Oda Tropical A Cuatro Voces" , Directed by Lola Creel (excerpt)". Vimeo. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  4. ""Nocturne of the Angels" (Xavier Villaurrutia) Video Poem directed by Lola Creel (Excerpt)". Vimeo. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  5. ""Nocturne of the Angels" (Xavier Villaurrutia) Video Poem directed by Lola Creel (Excerpt)". Vimeo. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  6. "American Poet W. S. Merwin documentary directed by Lola Creel (excerpt)". Vimeo. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  7. "Festival "Vidarte 2002" directed by Lola Creel (excerpt)". Vimeo. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  8. "Peter Campus exhibition "Before this Moment", and documentary produced by Lola Creel (excerpt)". Vimeo. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
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