Jacobo Borges

Imagen de Caracas was an experimental film spectacle, directed by Jacobo Borges and Mario Robles in 1968 for the 400 anniversary of the foundation of Caracas. It needed more than 48768 meters of film and 5000 actors.

May 22, 1969. A resident of the hillsides crosses Caracas carrying a portable radio. The editing intercuts these images with footage of the COPEI-led attack on the Central University of Venezuela and the students' resistance. The film was made collectively by Jacobo Borges and members of the Cine Urgente group, together with residents of the neighborhood.

Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects of the most important venezuelan writer of the 60s, 70s and 80s: José Ignacio Cabrujas.