Pilar Méndez Rojas
Reimagining Reality
Audiovisual Portfolio
My projects
Project Title: SPIT
Year: 2020
Duration: 3 minutes, 13 seconds
Genre: Short Film, Essay Film
Country: Mexico
School: American School Foundation of Chiapas
Short description of the project: An experimental reflection on the absurdity and invisible pressures we impose on ourselves while seeking peace in a chaotic world.
Project Title: The Emergence
Year: 2021
Duration: 6 minutes, 9 seconds
Genre: Short film, music video, video art
Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short project description: Through shadow theater and dance, this visual piece traces the emergence of humanity and its first attempts to understand identity through art and ritual.
Project Title: On the Edge of the Road
Year: 2022
Duration: 5 minutes, 44 seconds
Genre: Short Film, Adaptation
Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short description of the project: A Mexican reinterpretation of Horacio Quiroga's Adrift, which explores memory and the silent presence of death through a landscape shaped by the Zoque cultural identity.
Project Title: Children of the Jungle
Year: 2023
Duration: 5 minutes, 1 second
Genre: Short film, observational documentary
Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short project description: An intimate expedition to a remote jungle cave alongside a lone climber in search of traces of the ancestral Zoque history.
Project Title: Caressing a Memory
Year: 2024
Duration: 4 minutes, 22 seconds
Genre: Music Video
Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short project description: Inspired by the Day of the Dead tradition, we embark on a journey through longing, imagining the possibility of being with a loved one one last time.
Project Title: The Climber's Prelude
Year: 2025
Duration: 15 minutes, 11 seconds
Genre: Short film, documentary
Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short project description:
A climber prepares for a dangerous free solo ascent while balancing ambition, fatherhood, and the fragile line between passion and risk.
Project Title: Soft Stem Shoots
Year: 2025
Duration: 20 minutes
Genre: Short Film, Adaptation
Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short project description: After a painful breakup, a young woman seeks belonging in a disturbing relationship with a man bound by a toxic attachment to his mother, revealing how unresolved trauma and emotional dependency distort love, identity, and the need to be seen.
My work
Project Title: Rock Art: A Universal Language
Year:
Duration: 13 minutes, 41 seconds
Genre: Short Film
Role: Editing and Animation Assistant Country: Mexico
Short project description: A documentary that explores the rock art of Ocozocoautla, Chiapas, tracing the geography, history, and Zoque cultural heritage that continues to shape collective identity through ancestral markings on the landscape.
Project Title: 5 Positives
Year: 2021
Duration: 3 minutes, 17 seconds
Genre: Short Film
Role: Acting, Editing and Assembly Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short project description: In a tribute to early cinematic imagination, characters from different films come together in a surreal attempt to save cinema itself, blurring the line between fiction, memory, and the origins of filmmaking.
Project Title: God's Work
Year: 2021
Duration: 1 minute, 33 seconds
Genre: Short Film
Role: Editing and Assembly
Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short project description: A young woman with a terminal illness begins to encounter divine apparitions through unsettling mannequins that invade her dreams and waking life, reflecting the fragility and fragmentation of the human condition.
Project Title: Crew List
Year: 2021
Duration: 4 minutes, 38 seconds
Genre: Short film
Roll: Assembly and Editing
Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short project description: When a film director loses all the resources to complete her project, two young collaborators embark on a chaotic, time-pressed journey to gather everything needed to bring the film back to life.
Project title: Asthenia
Year: 2022
Duration: 1 minute, 25 seconds
Genre: Music video
Role: Dancer/Actress
Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short project description: A visual exploration of vulnerability and healing, following a woman who confronts past trauma while learning to trust in love despite the fear of being truly seen.
Project Title: Rabbit Season
Year: 2022
Duration: 11 minutes, 19 seconds
Genre: Short Film
Role: Acting
Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short project description:
Left alone on Christmas Eve, two brothers who never manage to understand each other spend the day together and, amidst the everyday, discover the silent bond that has always existed between them.
Project Title: The Godfather - Lighting Reference
Year: 2023
Duration: 1 minute, 19 seconds
Genre: Practical
Role: Directing, Assembling and Editing
Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short project description: A visual study inspired by the lighting language of The Godfather, exploring how shadow, silence, and composition shape power dynamics and emotional tension within intimate spaces.
Project Title: Mitski – Lighting Reference
Year: 2023
Duration: 37 seconds
Genre: Practice
Role: Model/Acting
Country: Mexico
University: CINEMA
Short project description: Inspired by the visual minimalism of contemporary music videos, this piece explores movement, repetition, and emotional restraint as tools to express inner conflict through performance and framing.
About me
I am a filmmaker and visual storyteller.
I create stories that explore the fragility of humanity, the silences that dwell between words, and the light that reveals what remains unspoken. In every frame, I seek an intimate truth: I film what hurts, what is kept silent, and what endures. My gaze oscillates between reality and emotion, between the documentary and the poetic, striving to imbue each atmosphere with truth. I observe the everyday with both unease and tenderness, convinced that cinema is the language where emotions find their form.