ANTONIO BUNT

(José Antonio Patiño Bunt)

Amsterdam 92-5
Col. Hip. Condesa
06100 México DF
México
T: 52 55 55 53 77 58
M: 52 55 16 50 53 52
E: antoniobunt@hotmail.com
W: antoniobunt.blogspot.com

EDUCATION

2008- Master’s degree in Visual Arts (Orientation in Photography), “National School of

2011 Visual Arts” at UNAM (Mexico City)
2006- Photographic Process Identification and Collection Conservation Seminar and
2007 Workshop, “National School of Restoration, Conservation and Museography” (Mexico
City)
1993- BA in Communication and Public Relations, “Universidad Latinoamericana” (Mexico
1997 City)

OTHER STUDIES

2010 Guerrilla warfare Lighting Workshop, “Cultural Arts Gymnasium Workshop” (Mexico
City)
2006 How to write for television?, “Centro Internacional de Guionismo de Cine y
Televisión” (Mexico City)
2000 and Member of the RAIN residence program by Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
2005 (Amsterdam) through the “el Despacho” initiative (Mexico City)
2004 Digital Editing and Post-Production on AVID and Final Cut Pro, “Universidad
Insurgentes” (Mexico City)
1997- Various Photography & Experimental Cinema workshops and courses, “Centro de
2004 la Imagen” (Mexico City)
1997- Editing: Language and Film Grammar, Art Direction and Film Production
2002 Workshops, “University Center of Cinematographic Studies”-UNAM (Mexico City)
1999 Video Basics Course, “Museo de Arte Moderno” (Mexico City)

1997 16 mm Film Workshop, “Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana” (Mexico City)
1995- Cinema throughout 100 years of History, Cinematic Arts Lab “Centro Cultural San
1996 Ángel” (Mexico City)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2002 to Filmmaking, Photography & Creative Writing Instructor for The Yearly Workshops
present Program, International Parliament of Writers (IPW), “Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl”
(Mexico City)
2010 Video Professor for bachelor degree courses in Communication, “Universidad
Intercontinental” (Mexico City)
2005- Cinematography Professor for Workshops at the “Centro Internacional de
2008 Guionismo de Cine y Television-CIGCITE” (Mexico City)
2003- Professor for bachelor degree courses in Communication on subjects such as
2010 Photography, Cinema (Appreciation, Analysis and Production), Propagandistic
Campaigns, Multimedia Techniques, Advertising Campaigns and Television
(Introduction and Production), “Universidad Insurgentes” (Mexico City)
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION RECORD (except as noted and * solo shows marked by
asterisk)

2009 “Se Permuta” (Swap meet): Video Showcase, "Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de
Oaxaca" (Oaxaca, Mexico)
2008 “Se Permuta” (Swap meet): Video Showcase, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City)

2007* “Encierro” (Lock-Up), "Plaza Cuicuilco" (Mexico City)

2007* “Imágenes Estenopéicas” (Pinhole Images): Retrospective Photography by Antonio

Bunt, “National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museology-“INAH” (Mexico
City)
2006* “Imágenes Estenopéicas” (Pinhole Images): Retrospective Photography by Antonio
Bunt, National Institute of Astrophysics, Electronics and Optics-“SEP” (Tonanzintla,
Puebla, Mexico)
2005 “La sombra del unicornio” (The shadow of the Unicorn), "Centro Cultural Atarazanas"
(Veracruz, Mexico)
2004 “Los alquimistas de la fotografía” (The Photographic Alchemists), “Alliance Française
Lindavista” (Mexico City)
2001 Toy Camera Slideshow, “Centro de la Imagen” (Mexico City)
2000 “Quía Común” Photographic Group and Manifesto presentation, “Centro de la Imagen”
(Mexico City)
1999 Photographic installation “Nor Photo or Video”, “Centro de la Imagen” (Mexico City)

SELECTED FILM WORKS

2011 Missing Memories-Director, short film documentary, in postproduction

2011 “Tan lejos de aquí” (As far from here)-Director, short film fiction, in postproduction
2008 “Tres Caminos” (Three ways)-Main actor, Salvadorean feature film directed by Edwin
Arévalo
2008 Blood Baby Blood!-Main actor, student short film directed by Argel Maldonado and
Hansel Cornejo
2007 “A Jesús le pido” (I rely on Jesus)-Main actor, student short film directed by Annette
Lepavec
2005 “La sangre en el cuerpo” (The blood in the body)-Camera operator, Salvadorean feature
film directed by Edwin Arévalo

PUBLICATIONS

2011 The artist’s book as a means for photographic expression (MFA thesis, in revision
for estimated print in late March, in Spanish)
2004- Over 50 collaborations about film criticism for the national-circulation newspaper
2006 “Unomásuno”
2004 The tyrannies of Peter Greenaway (BA thesis, in Spanish)

CONFERENCES

2006 Analyzing Lars Von Trier’s “Manderlay” on the First International Film Analysis
Forum, Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival (Mexico City)
2005 Panel: Documentary Filmmaker’s Encounter and Forum, International Morelia Film
and Festival at the “Cineteca Nacional” (Mexico City)
2006
2005 Panel: Pinhole Photography in the 21st century, Third National Pinhole Camera
Forum (Veracruz, Mexico)
2003- Conferences: Danish Discipline: Analysis to Dogme 95, Leni Riefenstahl is 100
2006 years old, Flirting with independence: Hal Hartley, The Simpsons film references and
 Film language of the music video at the “Cineteca Nacional” (Mexico City)
2002 Panel: Redefinitions: “Arquitectura y Cine” (my participation was about analyzing
Peter Greenaway’s film work and its relation to architecture), “Universidad Anáhuac”
(México City)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Knowledge of Black & White darkroom process and alternative 19th Century
photographic processes such as cyanotype, salt paper, albumen print, daguerreotype
and the wet collodion process as well as photographic conservation and mounting.
• Knowledge of professional photographic equipment: Analogue and Digital cameras from
35 mm, DSLR, medium and large format cameras, professional camcorders (MiniDV,
HDV, DVCAM) and film cameras Super 8 (I own a professional Super 8 camera with
crystal sync generator) and 16 mm.
• Software skills: Office (Word, Power Point and Excel), Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe
Flash CS3, AVID 4.1 basics, Final Cut Pro 7, Mac OSX Systems and web browsers.

WEBSITES

*http://antoniobunt.blogspot.com (Artists’ books and recent photographic work, in Spanish as

well as various texts in English)

*http://www.youtube.com/user/antoniobunt (Early film and video works, subtitling work and two
recent short promos)

LANGUAGES

*Spanish (Native)
*English (Fluent)
*French (Fluent)
*Dutch (Basic knowledge)
*Italian (Intermediate)
*Czech (Intermediate)