Directing
Jorge Silva
Born December 2, 1941 · Tolima, Colombia
Died January 28, 1987 · aged 45
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.
Known For
Campesinos · 1975Campesinos
★ 6.81975
MovieDocumentary
Colombian documentary that exposes the context of the indigenous-farmer movement in the early '70s.
Days of Paper · 1964Days of Paper
1964
Movie
Jorge Silva fictionalizes childhood memories marked by loneliness and exclusion, through the meeting of two boys from different social backgrounds.
Material Bruto Silente · 2025Material Bruto Silente
2025
Movie
The 𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴 evidence the presence of the person filming, revealing their movement and their center; they are the record of a hesitation seeking balance, testimony to the measurement of time. In that sustained gaze that pursues the precision of a gesture, meanings and bewilderment suddenly unfold. Filming, then, is the construction of a logic permeated by speculation, which in turn fertilizes it.
Love, Women and Flowers · 1988Love, Women and Flowers
★ 10.01988
MovieDocumentary
Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.
Camilo Torres Restrepo, el amor eficaz · 2022Camilo Torres Restrepo, el amor eficaz
★ 6.02022
MovieDocumentary
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.
The Brickmakers · 1972The Brickmakers
★ 6.51972
MovieDocumentary
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.
Um Mundo Catita · 2007Um Mundo Catita
★ 8.02007
MovieComedyDrama
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.
Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future · 1982Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future
★ 6.91982
MovieDocumentary
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.
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