MEXICO CITY THROUGH FILM
OCT.09+OCT.16+OCT.23+NOV.06.2025
NOV.06.2025 – Rodrigo Hidalgo
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)
5:00 PM
Free admission
Arte Abierto | 2nd floor, ARTZ
ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)
The film is set between 1970 and 1971 in Colonia Roma, a middle-class neighborhood in Mexico City, where housewives typically had domestic help, primarily for household and childcare.
Rodrigo Hidalgo analyzes the film as a valuable visual document of Mexico City’s modern heritage, emphasizing the importance of its functionalist houses, tree-lined streets, and public spaces not only as settings but also as protagonists that highlight the social and urban transformations of the time.
The exhibition invites reflection on how architecture and urban planning function as spaces of memory and exclusion, where material structures tell stories of gender, power, and urban segregation, making visible what is often hidden in the official history of Mexico City.
RODRIGO HIDALGO
Journalist and chronicler of Mexico City, he is the founder of the project Mexico City in Time. He has participated in numerous conferences dedicated to the history of the capital at venues such as the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Mexico City Museum, the Vasconcelos Library, and the CCU Tlatelolco.
He has also participated in exhibitions such as Roma-Condesa: 111 Years of History and Historic Center, Heart of Mexico at the MODO Museum, as well as Urbanophagy at the El Rule Gallery.
His work has been published in media outlets such as El Universal, Gatopardo, Récord, and Km Cero, in addition to contributing to books such as Centro Histórico: 200 lugares imprescindibles and Ciudad Independencia. He currently hosts the program Mexico City in Time, broadcast on Canal Once.
