Riggen

In a case of poetic injustice, as Miss Riggen speaks very candidly about how women are generally depicted in Mexican films, the camera blurs her face; at times, looking at the giant head on screen I felt like the kid in the beginning and final sequences of Persona.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

I asked Mariana Chenillo and Patricia Riggen -- who happened to be the only two females amidst Revolucion's ten directors -- about the exclusion of soldaderas and soldaderos razos in the De Fuentes trilogy and also Revolucion, when apparently, the actual war boasted a unique fighting female presence.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

In a case of poetic injustice, as Miss Riggen speaks very candidly about how women are generally depicted in Mexican films, the camera blurs her face; at times, looking at the giant head on screen I felt like the kid in the beginning and final sequences of Persona.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

In a case of poetic injustice, as Miss Riggen speaks very candidly about how women are generally depicted in Mexican films, the camera blurs her face; at times, looking at the giant head on screen I felt like the kid in the beginning and final sequences of Persona.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

I asked Mariana Chenillo and Patricia Riggen -- who happened to be the only two females amidst Revolucion's ten directors -- about the exclusion of soldaderas and soldaderos razos in the De Fuentes trilogy and also Revolucion, when apparently, the actual war boasted a unique fighting female presence.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

I asked Mariana Chenillo and Patricia Riggen -- who happened to be the only two females amidst Revolucion's ten directors -- about the exclusion of soldaderas and soldaderos razos in the De Fuentes trilogy and also Revolucion, when apparently, the actual war boasted a unique fighting female presence.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

In a case of poetic injustice, as Miss Riggen speaks very candidly about how women are generally depicted in Mexican films, the camera blurs her face; at times, looking at the giant head on screen I felt like the kid in the beginning and final sequences of Persona.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

I asked Mariana Chenillo and Patricia Riggen -- who happened to be the only two females amidst Revolucion's ten directors -- about the exclusion of soldaderas and soldaderos razos in the De Fuentes trilogy and also Revolucion, when apparently, the actual war boasted a unique fighting female presence.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

(His letter must have gotten lost in the mail.) "I respect that institution, I just don't respect our present government or any of our last governments, so I have mixed feelings," Riggen explains.

Ashley Wren Collins: Gael García Bernal: Revolución in a Bergman-less World 2010

"It's a very nice piece of paper, it's a different kind from the normal paper, it's smaller and it has the eagle of our flag and it's very pretty," Riggen smiles as she describes the letter and Bernal listens attentively at this news.

Ashley Wren Collins: Gael García Bernal: Revolución in a Bergman-less World 2010