A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Mexico City, Mexico
Pedro Lavin is filmmaker, writer and visual artist from Mexico City. His work weaves together oneiric fantasy and visceral eroticism with his own personal histories to create story. This aesthetic pursuit is rooted in themes of mythology, ritual and folklore; the metamorphotic power of nature; and the primal link between the divine and the profane. With an extensive background in creative direction for film, animation and VFX; and an audacious, pioneering embrace of novel tech and AI; Lavin’s multidisciplinary practice unfolds across a variety of mediums including film, animation, concept and generative art. Lavin’s filmic work has been selected by and awarded at numerous film festivals internationally including Sundance, Outfest LA, Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival, Annecy, Berlin Porn Film Festival and Choreoscope Barcelona among others. His artistic output has been exhibited at galleries worldwide including REDCAT in Los Angeles, JO-HS in Mexico City, Chinatown Soup in New York City and distant.gallery virtually.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.