Luis Ospina
1949 - 2019
Cali: de Película
Luis Ospina, Carlos Mayolo
A 13 minute glimpse of the Feria de Cali celebrated between Christmas and New Year… A carnival of commodity fetishism, red devils and white indians that will be recognizable to anyone who has encountered the surrealist ethnographies of Michael Taussig.
Cali: de Película
La venganza de Jairo
Simón Hernández
Jairo Pinilla, Valentina Gómez
Jairo José Pinilla Téllez is the pioneer of suspense and science fiction in Colombian film. Pinilla was the first to use special effects in Colombian film and now, at the age of over 70, he is working to finish his last film. This documentary follows Jairo’s footsteps through Colombian film.
Jairo’s Revenge
Agarrando pueblo
Luis Ospina, Carlos Mayolo
Luis Alfonso Londoño, Carlos Mayolo
Two filmmakers travel around impoverished sectors of the cities of Bogotá and Cali in search of the images of abjection needed to complete a documentary commissioned by German TV. Meanwhile, another camera captures these “vampire” filmmakers feeding off the misery of their marginal subjects.
The Vampires of Poverty
Un tigre de papel
Luis Ospina
Arturo Alape, Jotamario Arbeláez
The life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia, is both incomplete and contradictory. Taking his life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year 1934 up until 1981, when the artist mysteriously disappeared from view.
A Paper Tiger
En busca de María
Luis Ospina, Jorge Nieto
Elsa Vásquez, Sandro Romero Rey
Based on the only four surviving shots of the first Colombian silent film, MARÍA (1921), by directors Máximo Calvo (Colombia) and Alfredo del Diestro (Spain), IN SEARCH OF ‘MARIA’ combines historical research, interviews, and scenic reconstruction to rescue the memory of a lost film.
In Search of Maria
Los Quietos Syndrome
León Siminiani
Luis Ospina, Juan Gabriel Vázquez
In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.
The Stillness Syndrome
Pura Sangre
Luis Ospina
Florina Lemaitre, Carlos Mayolo
Roberto Hurtado suffers from a rare disease that requires massive transfusions of blood from children or adolescents. His son blackmails three employees to get blood for him and they resort to unscrupulous methods to obtain it.
Pure Blood
La mansión de Araucaima
Carlos Mayolo
Adriana Herrán, José Lewgoy
In an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent pilot, the Haitian servant, the mercenary guardian and the Machiche, a mature and dominant female. A young model arrives there to unleash all kinds of passions.
The Manor of Araucaima
Andrés Caicedo: Unos pocos buenos amigos
Luis Ospina
Sandro Romero Rey, Carlos Alberto Caidedo
Using the unfinished film, ANGELITA Y MIGUEL ÁNGEL, by Andrés Caicedo and Carlos Mayolo, as a structuring device, friends of prolific film critic and writer Andrés Caicedo, an unforgettable figure of the group of Cali in the 1970s who left an incredible amount of texts, reflect upon his life, his work, and his suicide at the age of 25, testify to his influence in the cultural life of Colombia, and remember his strong and touching personality.
Andrés Caicedo: A Few Good Friends
Carne de tu carne
Carlos Mayolo
Adriana Herrán, David Guerrero
August 6, 1956 during the military dictatorship of Rojas Pinilla. A military convoy loaded with dynamite explodes in the center of Cali, destroying a good part of the traditional buildings of the city and exposing the roots of some houses that for years had kept the secret stories of their inhabitants.
Bloody Flesh
