Los textos que integran esta compilación, algunos inéditos y otros traducidos o republicados, componen una nota al pie de las películas de la Gira de Documentales Ambulante 2026, pues dicen, contradicen o prolongan lo que se proyecta en pantalla. A la vez, estas páginas perdurarán más allá de la brevedad del festival. Las ideas que contienen no son pasajeras; se trata más bien de meditaciones de sustancia, con varios propósitos y líneas de trabajo: reflexionar, criticar, rebatir y contar.

Autorxs participantes: José Luis Guerín, Itzel Martínez del Cañizo, Lucrecia Martel, Alessandro Gagliardo y Kamal Aljafari; Nicolás Deffossé y Daniela Contreras, Aída Naxhielly, Javi Fortis, Miranda Pennell

Esta publicación recoge la experiencia de Ambulante, a través del proyecto Films for Hope, llevando una proyección de documentales a cuatro cárceles de diferentes regiones de México.

Ilustraciones realizadas por Yareni Velázquez y el scribing elaborado por Aisel Wicab.

En colaboración con: Creatura y Cartografías de la reclusión

La presente publicación, paralela a la retrospectiva de mismo nombre que en 2025 Ambulante Gira de Documentales dedicó a los oleajes, es una investigación formal cuyo fin primero es reunir cuantas olas sea posible en un mismo mar. Con la convicción de que la verdad es suma y no resta, proponemos un racimo de líneas de lectura sobre el mar para que atisbemos con mayor claridad ese enigma de la naturaleza.

The editorial publication from the eighteenth edition of Ambulante Traveling Documentary Film Festival serves as a self-portrait that lays bare the core of ideas and intentions behind this cinematographic event, while also acting as a family album through which we can trace any possible historiographies and weave dialogues among works from different eras.

This book takes a look into the different facets of this Mexican documentalist, from his early photographic work to his feature and short films, all of them are considered to be a testament to the complexity of the Mexican social structure. Mara Polgovsky’s handpicked selection gathers renowned voices from the world cinematographic scene: Dennis Lim, Olaf Mölles, Diego Lerer, Carlos Bonfil, Kieron Corless, Erica Segre, Michel Lipkes, Deborah Martin, Hubert Sauper, Carlos Reygadas, Gareth Evans, and Mara Polgovsky.

Film as a Subversive Art, was written by Amos Vogel, a film curator and critic. Originally published in 1974, this is a fundamental work regarding the history of cinema, where the author carries out a historical review of the seventh art in light of the concept of subversion.

Amos Vogel was a mandatory reference for the history of avant-garde cinema, the art of curatorship, film societies, and Cinema 16, a mixed programming proposal for film exhibition and distribution, which operated in New York from 1947 to 1963, where Vogel immersed part of the New York society into transgressive and revealing cinematographic experiences.

A collection of essays on the work of the French filmmaker, featuring the Ambulante Retrospective 2013.

Chris Marker Inmemoria is a unique compilation in which filmmakers, critics, researchers, and curators contribute. It joins the scarce number of essay collection books in Spanish about Chris Marker, as well as including the unpublished text “Soy México”, which was written by the filmmaker himself. This book is a joint edition by Ambulante Ediciones, Cineteca Nacional, and the Embassy of France in México.

This journal intimately explores 18 out of the nearly fifty projects that have emerged from the initiative Ambulante Más Allá, which, as a documentary production training program, aims to train new filmmakers from diverse corners of Mexico and Latin America. It reflects upon the collaborative work, not only as an audiovisual artwork, but also as an act of political and social resistance.