Video documentation of Carlos Monsiváis' keynote address presented as a part of the 4th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in July of 2003 in New York City, United States under the title Spectacles of Religiosities.Introduction by Lourdes Arizpe.

Carlos Monsiváis is a prominent essayist, satirist, and novelist living in Mexico City. Mr. Monsiváis has contributed to Mexican journals such as, Excelsior, Siempre, and Nexos and he currently writes for La Jornada as well as El Financiero. He is the author of more than a dozen books in Spanish, both fiction and nonfiction, including Amor Perdido, Días de Guardar, A Ustedes les Consta, Nuevo Catecismo Para Indios Remisos, and Escenas de Pudor y Liviandad. Mexican Postcards is the title of a volume of his essays in English.