
The Mind and the Crime
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema
July 26 - August 8, 2024
Independently financed by Alejandro Galindo, The Mind and the Crime is a police procedural like you’ve never seen—boldly outlandish whatsit that veers radically from horror-noir to forensic realism to abstract-surrealist collage to police propaganda and back again.
Independently financed by Galindo (which required mortgaging his house) in response to the true crime radio craze of the 1950s, this ingenious, relentlessly narrated experimental “documentary” veers radically from horror-noir to forensic realism to abstract-surrealist collage to police propaganda and back again. Exploring a real homicide case in a singular fashion, which begins after a mutilated corpse is fished out of a Mexico City canal, Galindo presents an investigation into the (then) cutting-edge forensic technology police had at their disposal to solve crimes—in cold, methodical fashion—and examine the pathologies behind them. A boldly outlandish whatsit, The Mind and the Crime is a police procedural like you’ve never seen, organized according to the ineffable logic of a nightmare.
Courtesy of Filmoteca UNAM’s collection.
Financiado de forma independiente por Galindo (lo que implicó que hipotecara su casa) en respuesta a la moda de la radio sobre crímenes reales de la década de los cincuenta, este ingenioso “documental” experimental, narrado de forma implacable, vira radicalmente del horror-noir al realismo forense, del collage abstracto-surrealista a la propaganda policial y viceversa. Explorando de manera singular un caso real de homicidio, que comienza tras la pesca de un cadáver mutilado en un canal de Ciudad de México, Galindo presenta una investigación sobre la (entonces) puntera tecnología forense que la policía tenía a su disposición para resolver crímenes—de manera fría y metódica—y examinar las patologías que se esconden tras ellos. La mente y el crimen es un procedimiento policial como nunca se ha visto, organizado según la lógica inefable de una pesadilla.
Cortesía del acervo de la Filmoteca UNAM.



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