The series of fifteen prints Francisco Toledo made on account of Franz Kafka's Report For an Academy is the narrative line of this documentary film that looks for the face of the juchiteco artist.
The ink with which Kafka writes the story of Pedro the Red and the aquatint of the prints of Toledo draw zigzagging outlines indefinitely searched. As the protagonist of Kafka's story (a monkey that tells the story of his metamorphosis into a man with the European Average Education to some distinguished men of the Academy of Sciences), the 'Peter the Red' in these selfportrait-prints of Toledo measures a journey that takes us from Paris of the 60's to the recent teacher's conflict in Oaxaca (2006).
Thus, Toledo Report interweaves a plot where the passion and mastery of the artist and the brilliant printer, is inseparable from the chisel with which a man takes part in historical and social matters, his struggles against corruption, his strong intervention against big interests of transnationals and his memorial fights of rescue and preservation of indigenous languages, the myths and legends of our ancestors.
| Directed by | Albino Alvarez |
| Written by | Albino Alvarez |