This event was meant to rebel against the social and political content of most of Mexico's post-Revoluction mural movement.
No Movies occupy a liminal space between the mural movement and the Super-8 films.
Inspiration came from a mural movement that was then sweeping the country, adopted first by minority artists in Los Angeles and Chicago.
In California the mural movement started about 1970.
These poignant pieces of public art build upon the Mexican mural movement from the 1920s, as well as a good dollop of hungover-rom-the-'60s hippy idealism.
He was also one of the critical founders of the mural movements in Chicago during the 1960s.
The start of the mural movement is always associated with Jose Vasconcelos (1882-1959), who became secretary of public education when the department was reestablished in 1921.
The suspension of the work at the Preparatoria ended the first phase of the mural movement.
In the second half of the 1930s Abela returned to painting, employing a naturalistic style influenced by early Renaissance painting and the Mexican mural movement.
The Mexican mural movement in the 1930s brought a new prominence to murals as a social and political tool.