Pola Weiss Álvarez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pola Weiss Álvarez

Mexican television producer and artist

Date of Birth: 03-May-1947

Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico

Date of Death: 06-May-1990

Profession: artist, television producer, video artist

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Pola Maria Weiss Álvarez, also known as Pola Weiss, was born in Mexico City in 1947 to a father of Alsatian descent and Mexican mother.
She grew up, at a time, when television was rising as a dominating platform of mass communication.
She worked as a television producer and instructor of film, video, and television.
Her younger sister, Kitzia, recalled that Weiss had always been attracted to motion pictures as a child.
Weiss is widely recognized as the first pioneer of video art in Mexico.
She is also remembered for her experimental videos in which she merged dance and video, becoming a pioneer in what is now known as screendance or videodanza (videodance).