Jorge Acha

Birth : 1946-11-10, Miramar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Death : 1996-10-12

History

Jorge Luis Acha (November 10, 1946, Miramar, Buenos Aires, Argentina - October 12, 1996, Miramar, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentine plastic artist, writer, screenwriter, photographer, and filmmaker. He studied at the "Prilidiano Pueyrredón" National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires where he graduated as a drawing teacher and painting teacher. Between 1975 and 1989, he had several individual painting exhibitions in Argentina, Bulgaria, Spain, Peru and Brazil. His feature film "Habeas Corpus" won the Bariloche First Film Festival Award in 1987. None of his films had a commercial release and today they are considered cult films. He also wrote about cinema in the magazines "El amigo americano" and "Biógrafo" between 1979 and 1980. He died at the age of 49, while inspecting the land where he was going to build his future home.

Profile

Movies

Thálassa, un autorretrato de Jorge Acha

Himself

Documentary film about the Argentine artist and filmmaker Jorge Luis Acha as told by himself

Mburucuyá: Portraits of Nature

Director

Posthumous film by Jorge Acha, whose narrative axis focuses on the journey undertaken by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimée Bonpland along with three indigenous people in the Orinoco basin and which will be told in the book by the German botanist entitled Viaje a los equinocciales del Ecuador.

Standard

Director

Does someone remember that project of López Rega’s which, in 1975, thought up the construction of a Great Homeland Altar where all mythical figures of Argentine history could be in the same building? From San Martín to Perón on his pinto horse. From the Billiken stamps of our childhood to Libertad Leblanc’s tits of our teenage years. All clichés of Argentine-ness gathered under one roof. But the construction delays. Workers entertain themselves with their own masturbatory drives. Or is it that Argentina is an impossibie construction? Always about to begin. always displaying great projects, great plans that never come to fruition. A second-rate country that hides its fundamental vacuity behind monuments. in Acha’s cinema, second-rateness is exposed, shown in all its lying pomposity.

Habeas Corpus

Editor

Experimental short film that shows four days in the life of a man clandestinely kept in captivity. The images of his naked body alternate with those of a happy moment on a beach and with those of his captor, who spends his time looking at bodybuilding magazines.

Habeas Corpus

Writer

Habeas Corpus

Director

Producciones Arena

Director

Life in a circus. As of today, this short film is considered to be lost.

Impasse

Director

Short film by Jorge Acha filmed in 16mm, about two young men who share the memory of a woman.

Veo-veo

Director

16mm black & white with ending in colour. A fantasy about the origin of colour in the world. It was filmed at the dunes of Miramar's vivarium. The actor in the film, José Luis Leduc was disappeared years later by Videla's dictatorship. As of today, the film is listed as not available or lost.

Sueño feliz

Director

Short film in 16mm colour, silent. A young lady arrives in Miramar and meets a man. They visit different places. It was financed by the Tourism Commision of General Alvarado. It was musicalized with fragments from the LP "Percusión de Locura". It is currently listed as not available or lost.

No se culpe a nadie

Director

A young man at the beach wearing a crucifix tries to put on his Argentina's national football team t-shirt but it suffocates him

Juan y Pedro

Director

A pair of twin brothers (or are they the same person?) lust over a woman

Marcy y Miguelo

Director

A young woman goes to the beach where she finds a handsome fisherman that catches her attention

Gustavo

Director

A little boy walks around the seaside town of Miramar in Argentina