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Frida: The Girl Just Doesn't Go Away

Date & Time

Fri. May 08, 2026 7:30 PM-9:30 PM
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Location Main Campus | Law Building

Parking at Beck Garage
Drop off at Beck Building

Film Information

Theater Brown Auditorium Theater, digital
Directed by Trisha Ziff
Year 2026
Length 84 minutes
Country UK
Language English and Spanish with English subtitles

Call for Questions 713-639-7531

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Events

Frida: The Girl Just Doesn't Go Away

Date & Time

Fri. May 08, 2026 7:30 PM-9:30 PM
This event has passed

Location Main Campus | Law Building

Parking at Beck Garage
Drop off at Beck Building

Film Information

Theater Brown Auditorium Theater, digital
Directed by Trisha Ziff
Year 2026
Length 84 minutes
Country UK
Language English and Spanish with English subtitles
Special work-in-progress screening

Introduced by filmmaker Trisha Ziff, who participates in post-film discussion with Arden Decker, associate director of the ICAA at the MFAH
 
Award-winning filmmaker Trisha Ziff considers the cultural and commercial fascination with Frida Kahlo. Resonating with the MFAH exhibition Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon, the film explores how Western culture appropriates and transforms certain individuals into symbols, reinventing them in such a way that their values and ideals can become unrecognizable. Kahlo’s legacy is explored in her influence on feminism, Mexican and Latinx identity, and disability and queer representation. Frida: The Girl Just Doesn’t Go Away features interviews with Mari Carmen Ramírez, the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the MFAH; and Arden Decker, associate director of the ICAA. 
 
Tickets
  • $9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+)
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About the Filmmaker
English-born, Mexican citizen Trisha Ziff lives and works in Mexico City and studied fine art at London’s Goldsmiths College. She then established a community photography collective in Derry, North of Ireland in 1981: Camerawork Derry. Ziff has curated exhibitions in the United States, Mexico, England, and Ireland; is a Guggenheim Scholar; and has directed seven award-winning documentary features, including The Mexican Suitcase (2010), The Man Who Saw Too Much (2015), Witkin & Witkin (2017), Oaxacalifornia the Return (2019), and Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man (2025).

Call for Questions 713-639-7531

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Underwriting for the Film Department is provided by Tenaris and American Friends of Fundacion Proa Inc., The Robert Frank Foundation, Nina and Michael Zilkha, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Houston, Laurence P. Unger and Ben Hobratsch, and the Vaughn Foundation.
 
Generous funding is provided by the Foundation for Independent Media Arts; Lois Chiles; Franci Neely; and ILEX Foundation.

“Frida: The Making of an Icon” is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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This exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from:

Major support is provided by:
Jerold B. Katz Foundation

Generous support is provided by:
Franci Neely
Linnet Deily
Nancy Pollok Guinee
Novum Energy
The Radoff Family
Judy and Charles Tate
Isabel and Ignacio Torras
Jesse Jones II and Terry Wayne Jones
Catherine and Alex López Negrete
Silvia Salle and Peter T. Wood
Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation
Linda and George Kelly
Yolanda and Bill Knull
Michele Leal and George K. Farah
Mary and Tom Lile

Official Promotional Partner:

Special thanks to Lopez Negrete Communications and the Secretaría de Cultura and Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes of Mexico.