During the!nbsp;upheavals of 1968, students from the Centro Universitario de Estudios!nbsp;Cinematográficos (CUEC) documented protests and confrontations not as!nbsp;journalists but as participants, even protagonists. The first generation of!nbsp;CUEC students-Leobardo López Aretche, Raúl Kamffer, and Alfredo Joskowicz-led!nbsp;the way. Communicados were filmed with a sense of immediacy and informed by!nbsp;an aesthetics of poverty, echoing Cinema Nôvo and Cuban cinema, especially the!nbsp;highly charged documentaries of Santiago Alvarez. Artists such as Sergio García were influenced by a seminal generation of filmmakers, including the Chilean-born Alejandro!nbsp;Jodorowski and the painter/poet Gelsen Gas, whose provocative works reflected!nbsp;the preoccupations of the subculture. García is the leading figure among the dozens of!nbsp;upstarts, hippies, and rebels who participated in the Super-8 competitions and!nbsp;collectives and sent anarchic and raucous notes from the underground. An up-to-date!nbsp;incarnation of radical media arts is seen in Ximena Cuevas's spoof of the!nbsp;violence and corruption surrounding the administration of Carlos Salinas, Víctimas del pecado neo-liberal.