Santiago Loza

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Santiago Loza

Born April 15, 1971 · Córdoba, Argentina (age 55)

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Known For

CarnavalCarnaval · 2014
Carnaval
2014
Movie
Rina and Yaco are two single brothers who live in a town in the interior of Santa Fe and work together in the warehouse in front of their house. Every day seems the same: without leaving, almost without speaking. But today is the carnival dance and something can change.
Pink MotherlandPink Motherland · 2009
Pink Motherland
2009
MovieDocumentary
A documentary about Néstor Perlongher. His life, his poems, and his activism in Argentina's Frente de Liberación Homosexual (homosexual liberation front).
Pin BoyPin Boy · 2004
Pin Boy
★ 8.32004
MovieDrama
A country boy tries to find his place in Buenos Aires. He goes to live with his cousin in the outer suburbs and works as a parapalos ("pin setter") in one of the city's last hand-operated bowling alleys.
The LaughThe Laugh · 2009
The Laugh
2009
MovieComedyDrama
Follows a group of friends adrift in a swampy after-hour: at dawn after a party, where the body struggles between arousal and extenuation.
As Close as PossibleAs Close as Possible · 2012
As Close as Possible
★ 6.02012
Movie
Downtrodden after some missteps in life, Daniel returns home. Work is non-existent, his ex-wife expects financial help he can't give her, and things are looking bleak. Yet as he prepares to become Godfather to his sister's son, who's soon to be baptised, he rediscovers a purpose - for a few days, at least.
Malambo, The Good ManMalambo, The Good Man · 2018
Malambo, The Good Man
★ 5.72018
MovieDrama
Dignified, strong and formidable, and oozing erotic attraction: young malambo dancer Gaspar is at one with his passion for dance that he has made his profession.
StrangeStrange · 2003
Strange
★ 6.02003
MovieDramaRomance
The protagonist is Axel, aged about 40, a doctor who no longer practices his craft. He is living temporarily with his sister and her children. He doesn't do much, just exists a little between the living and their things. One day, he meets a young, pregnant woman. A relationship develops, a kind of love, and they live together, like driftwood temporarily clinging on to each other.
Lara y los trenesLara y los trenes · 1999
Lara y los trenes
★ 8.01999
MovieDrama
Lara must take the train every day to go to work. In that monotony she meets someone special, but it is not what she imagined.

Filmography

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Intervened Archives: Cinema SchoolIntervened Archives: Cinema School · 2016
Intervened Archives: Cinema School
2016
MovieDocumentary
Continuing the series started with Intervened Events (2014), the Buenos Aires Film Museum presents the second feature film made entirely with material from its archives and by fourteen outstanding Argentine filmmakers. These are nine issues of Cine Escuela Argentino, a project created in 1948 by the Argentine Ministry of Education during the first government of Juan Domingo Perón. The latter promoted “the use of the cinematographer as a didactic assistant destined to complete the educational and cultural work, mainly in what concerns exalting the feelings of the nationality, with the heroic example of the heroes, Christian morality and the multiple civil duties, great and small”. Hence, most of the films produced by Cine Escuela Argentino were aimed at scientific dissemination and tourism promotion of the various regions of the country. (Museum of Cinema)

Director

El asombroEl asombro · 2014
El asombro
2014
MovieDocumentary
As if it were a continuation of the last 15 minutes of AB, Fund and Loza, now accompanied by Moriconi, radicalize the aesthetic procedure of the previous film made together: on the one hand, there is a free text, between poetic and philosophical, pronounced voiced by two men and a woman; on the other, a set of plans of different ecosystems, live and stuffed animals, clouds, waterfalls and lava, organized by a kind of poetic logic, makes up the visual material. The disjunction between text and image is programmatic, and in parallel they constitute a form of free poetic expression. The precariousness of existence is evidence, and the very composition of the images is in line with this empirical confirmation. The general discourse oscillates between a heterodox Franciscan Christianity and a sensitive Darwinism, and in the same way a kind of awareness of terror and amazement towards the universe is combined.

Writer