Eisenstein in Guanajuato : 10 days that shook Eisenstein

Eisenstein, the great and innovative Russian film director went to Mexico in 1930 to make a film about pre-Columbian peoples.

Whilst in Mexico this super-intellectual polymath, product of a powerful political turmoil, came face to face with sex and death, life's two non-negotiables, and subject of man's greatest fascinations. Aged 33, he was obsessed by a museum of corpses, and a child, victim of a mud-slide, died in his arms. And he fell in consummated carnal love with a man.

Here is an account of ten days that shook Eisenstein. He returned to Russia a changed man and a changed film-maker.