Director: Jesús Enrique Guédez Format: 16mm black and white, 20 min. Funding: Universidade Lusófona & Film Memory Programme. Direct Scanned Material VHS transfer to DVD Version Jesús Enrique Guédez (1930–2007) was a poet, filmmaker, journalist, and pioneer of Venezuelan documentary cinema — trained at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where his encounter with…
La ciudad que nos ve (1967) Director: Jesús Enrique Guédez Format: 16mm black and white Funding: Universidade Lusófona & Film Memory Programme VHS Version – Transfered to DVD This video shows the original source material before any restoration or intervention. Original Scanned Material 4K This video shows the original source material before any restoration or…
Pozo muerto (1967) Carlos Rebolledo | 35mm | Digital Restoration 2024–2026 VHS Version – Transfered to DVD This video shows the original source material before any restoration or intervention. Original Scanned Material 4K This video shows the original source material before any restoration or intervention. After Diamant This video shows the original source material before…
Director: José Castillo “Castillito” Format: 35mm, hand-drawn directly on celluloid Funding: Universidade Lusófona & Film Memory Programme About the filmmaker José Castillo (1922–2018), known universally as Castillito, is the pioneer of animated cinema in Venezuela. A journalist by training, he discovered his vocation through a cycle of films by the Canadian experimental filmmaker Norman McLaren…
Director: Margot BenacerrafFormat: 35mm black and whiteFunding: Cornell Society of Humanities Margot Benacerraf (Caracas, 1926–2024) was one of the foundational figures of Venezuelan cinema. Trained at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques in Paris, she directed Araya in 1959 and later founded the Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela in 1966. Araya is a poetic documentary-narrative hybrid…
Director: Nora de Izcue Format: 35mm black and white, 35 min. Funding: DePaul University Archive work: 2022 Nora de Izcue (Lima, 1934) is the first woman to direct a film in Peru and a founding member of the Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. Runan Caycu — a Quechua expression meaning “I am a man” —…