Jorge Silva

Jorge Silva

Birth : 1941-12-02, Tolima, Colombia

Death : 1987-01-28

History

Jorge Silva was a Colombian director and cinematographer, known for Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future (1982), Peasants (1975) and The Brickmakers (1972). He died in 1988 while working on the documentary Love, Women and Flowers (1988) with his wife and filmmaking partner Marta Rodríguez.

Profile

Jorge Silva

Movies

Camilo Torres Restrepo, el amor eficaz
Camera Operator
An experimental documentary that dares to gather diverse and plural audiovisual archive materials, which gives itself the possibility of creating an imaginary, but concrete, intense and profound conversation between the filmmaker Marta Rodríguez and the indefinable Camilo Torres Restrepo. A film that invents the opportunity to talk to a dead man, why yes, Camilo died, but his questions, his ideas and his effective love remain strong and powerful within Marta's life and political and artistic reflection. Who was Camilo Torres Restrepo? The documentary tries to answer this question by looking at Colombia today, analyzing it, and understanding it, perhaps a little more, in its inequalities and its constant violence. Perhaps this is the greatest legacy that Camilo left to those who are still alive.
Um Mundo Catita
Corneto
The burlesque and nonsensical biography of a singer, bohemian and broke, who falls in love with his sexy dentist who is already the fiancée of a well-off executive. The adventures and misadventures of the singer in this wonderful new world are told with tongue-in-cheek and several adult situations.
Love, Women and Flowers
Director
Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.
Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future
Director
The struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500.
Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future
Editor
The struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500.
Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future
Cinematography
The struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500.
Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future
Producer
The struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500.
Campesinos
Cinematography
A Colombian documentary that expose the context of the indigenous-farmer movement in the early '70s.
Campesinos
Director
A Colombian documentary that expose the context of the indigenous-farmer movement in the early '70s.
The Brickmakers
Director
This film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva worked on this documentary from 1966 to 1972, establishing a relationship with the family which allows the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.
Planas, Testimonio de un Etnocidio
Director
A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous community formed a cooperative to defend their rights from settlers and colonists, but the government organized a military operation to protect the latter and foreign companies.