'El Petacal' is a single shot film. It was recorded with a camera mounted on a dolly. It is made like theater used to be made, where there is a story within a story. The film portrays a wedding of great opulence played on a led screen, and the guests of another wedding of very simple origins are watching it. The shot begins closed on the screen and slowly begins opening on the real-time wedding. The intention is to depict the most basic of social issues in countries like my own, Mexico. The great difference that exists amongst social classes; the rich are very rich and the poor are very poor. The opulent wedding is my own.
—Anonymous