"Artist, provocateur, gender fluid, communist, activist and feminist,

FRIDA a unique and powerful icon of resilience and endurance".

SYNOPSIS

The Girl Just Doesn’t Go Away! explores the transformation from artist to icon of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, one of the most recognized influencers of our time.

The many representations of her, beyond a single image have been appropriated by diverse groups from Chicanx and Mexican identity, disability to queer representation, just some of the diverse groups within which Frida Kahlo has become an inescapable reference and symbol. An extraordinary and unique phenomenon, Fridamania! Combines the iconic, mythic with an inexhaustible consumer culture.

 We meet Mexican actress Ofelia Medina, the first Frida in the movies; Director Julie Taymor, biographer Hayden Herrera, Chicana artist Amalia Mesa Bains, photographer and great neice Cristina Kahlo, copyright lawyer Adrián Ojeda as well as contemporary artists, art historians, fans of Frida on the streets of Coyoacan, Mexico City, San Francisco and McAllen, Texas, drag queens and impersonators.

How did this phenomenon evolve? What would Frida have thought of seeing the infinite number of incarnations of herself?

Through these different narratives and voices we interweave their stories and explore the complexity of the appropriation of Frida’s image. A playful and reflective journey providing a refreshing perspective on the mythology surrounding Frida Kahlo; not another biopic.

• Locations: México: Mexico City, San Cristóbal de las Casas; USA: McAllen, Houston, Bay Area, Riverside, New York City & Cape Cod.

• Languages include English, Spanish, Tzotzil.

SYNOPSIS

The feature-length documentary Frida's Gaze explores the cultural obsession and commercial around the image of Frida Kahlo. It's a movie that seeks to see beyond iconography and explores the history of Frida's  transformation from artist to celebrity, after her death in 1954.

Throughout the film we ask experts and admirers What would Frida have thought of seeing the infinity of incarnations of herself? that saturate the current global market.