Juan Durán

Filmes

Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of my Village
Cinematography
Sistu and her small community in the Andes discover the magic of cinema. This meeting causes a stir but also confronts them with their culture and highlights the limitations of the community to understand and read Spanish. As a solution, they choose Sistu so that every week he goes to town to see a movie and tells it to everyone in the square.
Trilogía Muda
Cinematography
A current of thought unites the three episodes in a coherent way, embodied with few elements, and that makes of space, time, and movement, purely cinematographic modes of expression. Voice is not needed. Yes there are sounds, music, but not human voices, as in primitive cinema. There are faces, slow or fast movements, despair, fatality, a barely glimpsed horror, desire and fear of freedom. There is also love, perhaps as an illusion, rather than as a reality.
Yakuqñan, caminos del agua
Director
A documentary about the women and men of the water and the land, their relationship with the environment and the preservation of their memory.
De Roger Corman Corrida Mortal 2050
Director of Photography
É o ano de 2050 e a América é controlada pelo todo-poderoso governo corporativo, comandado pelo Presidente (Malcolm McDowell). O povo recebeu lavagem cerebral através das diversões violentas da realidade virtual. O evento do ano é a Corrida Mortal, na qual um bando de truculentos motoristas pilotos competem em uma corrida pelo país, marcando pontos quando atropelam pessoas cruelmente e jogando uns aos outros para fora da estrada. O campeão reinante e favorito dos fãs, Frankenstein (Manu Bennett), que é meio homem, meio máquina, quer levar a coroa, mas seu rebelde copiloto espião ameaça sua fama.
The Light on the Hill
Director of Photography
In a small town in the peruvian Andes, the strange death of a herder awakens the fear to the unknown. Two young forensics and a rebel cop are in charge of the investigation and, in the process, will reveal a shocking and dangerous legend hidden for centuries.
Ella
Director of Photography
Ella – well she has a name too – Luna (Patricia Garza), is actually about her much older husband and painter Alfredo (Paul Vega), and his choice of actions/reactions after she decides to leave him for a lover that he wasn’t aware of. Alberto has been going through a creative crisis and is under pressure to complete a series of paintings for a forthcoming show. It is nevertheless also plain to see that he’d been treating Luna, who’s also his model, largely as an object of desire and obsession – capturing with camera her every movement in the house when she’s not posing for him, and memorising her every physical feature, moles and warts included – he’d apparently counted twenty seven moles on her body. When Alfredo tracks down and entraps the lover she’d wanted to elope with (Rómulo Assereto), he’ll discover that they both have more in common than merely desiring the same woman…
El premio
Director of Photography
Antonio trabalha como professor em uma vila nos Andes peruanos. Sua sorte parece mudar quando ganhar o maior prêmio da loteria. Ele oferece o dinheiro aos habitantes do povoado para reconstruir o canal de irrigação comunitária. O protagonista viaja para Lima, capital do país, para recolher o prêmio. Lá, ele se encontra com seu filho Alex que não via há 10 anos. De repente, o dinheiro arrecadado por Antonio desaparece da casa.
Crossing a Shadow
Director of Photography
The movie follows the life of Enrique Aet, an engineer whose main obsession is to improve communications between the Peruvian jungle and Lima.
State of Fear
Director of Photography
STATE OF FEAR takes place in Peru, yet serves as a cautionary tale for a world engaged in a "global war on terror." It dramatizes the human and societal costs a democracy faces when it embarks on a "war" against terror, a "war" potentially without end, all too easily exploited by unscrupulous leaders seeking personal political gain.
Con Game
Director of Photography
President Fujimori's government is on its way out, and the citizens of Peru are struggling to get by, often engaging in unscrupulous means to get ahead--or just to make a buck. Rafo is a struggling filmmaker who supports his girlfriend Laura. He encounters a Spanish con artist posing as an executive for a major phone company, the Spaniard draws Rafo into an elaborate scam.
Days of Santiago
Director of Photography
Santiago returns home from the Peruvian army ill-prepared to cope with the realities of life. Haunted by his violent military past, he is conflicted by his desire for education and his temptation to join his comrades in a decadent life of crime.
A Martian Named Desire
Cinematography
It tells the story of Jorge who dreams of going to live in the United States. He loves the American way of life and above all, the gringas, but at the North American embassy they deny him a visa. That afternoon she meets Ganzo López, who has just been given the "Greencard" because he married a gringa. Jorge then decides that the solution to his problems is to also marry a gringa and travels to Cuzco to look for her ...
Ladies Room
Cinematography
Some incidents occur on the dancing floor, and the ladies' restroom at a tropical club will change the life of a macho politician, a naive and subdued married woman, an unfaithful lesbian couple, a transsexual dreaming of a sex reassignment surgery and a smart school teacher who loses her head after a few drinks.
Bala perdida
Director of Photography
A group of rich teenagers from Lima travel to Cusco looking for drugs, parties and sex. One of them wants to find Pamela, who he met when they were kids. In that quest, his friends and him will get to know a world of violence, perversion and disenchantment.
El bien esquivo
Director of Photography
1618, um mestiço de espanhóis e índios retorna da Espanha ao Peru em busca de documentos que provem que ele não é um filho ilegítimo.
Eruption
Director of Photography
Sam Hunter, an American photojournalist, is ostensibly covering the Pope's visit to the South American country of San Pedro. But Sam's real goal is to track down the elusive revolutionary leader Marcos and bring back an exclusive interview. Sam quickly gets into trouble with the repressive military regime of the dictator Mendosa, which controls San Pedro with an iron grip. Nevertheless, Sam heads off to the mountains to find Marcos. On his way, he meets the radiantly beautiful Dr. Luisa Suarez, a doctor committed to the impoverished mountain peasants. An awakening volcano and the best efforts of a government death squad do not stop Sam from reaching Marcos, and he becomes sympathetic to the cause... documenting it with his photos. In a tumultuous climax, revolution and the volcano erupt simultaneously, as Sam struggles to get his revealing photos out to the front pages of the world's newspapers.
Watchers 3
Director of Photography
A top-secret experiment spawns two highly intelligent life-forms: Einstein, a golden retriever with an IQ of 175; and The Outsider, a deformed monstrosity that exists to kill... and avenge its creators. When the Outsider escapes into the jungles of South America, the government sends in some ex-military convicts to catch the beast. But what starts out as a high-speed chase ends up in bloody carnage. Only Einstein knows the Outsider's motives, and only the canine can outsmart the creature. Now, it's a battle of beasts as man's best friend confronts man's worst nightmare.
New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020
Director of Photography
In the 21st Century, Tony Ricks was a criminal who was executed for his crimes. In the distant year 2020, he is revived in a freak accident, and must infiltrate a futuristic prison and retrieve a powerful bioweapon in exchange for his freedom... and his life.