Ariel Zúñiga

Ariel Zúñiga Laborde (Mexico City, 1947), is a Mexican cinematographer, director, editor, and screenwriter. At the age of 18, he traveled to France where he studied Art History at the Sorbonne in Paris and, in 1968, enrolled as a free student at IDHEC. Upon returning to Mexico, Ariel Zúñiga acquired a 16mm camera and began filming documentaries for cultural television artists. In the early seventies, he worked as a cameraman for Tiempo de cine, a television program on Canal Once featuring Emilio García Riera, José de la Colina, Tomás Pérez Turrent, Francisco Sánchez, Jorge Cantú, and actress Daniela Rosen. He pursued still photography and enrolled at CUEC, where he studied Film Direction and Photography. Alongside his studies, he worked as an assistant and cameraman on Reed: México insurgente (Paul Leduc, 1970), Semana Santa coral (Rafael Castanedo, 1971), Palacio Chino / Mago (Carlos Castañón, 1972), El perro y la calentura / Conducta (Raúl Kamffer, 1973). From that year until 1975,...