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Jorge Solé
Born October 13, 1941 · Montevideo, Uruguay (age 84)
Jorge Solé (Montevideo, 1941) is a Uruguayan-Venezuelan filmmaker, documentarian, and photographer, regarded as a key figure of the New Latin American Cinema. A self-taught artist in film and television, he arrived in Venezuela in the 1960s, where he developed a prolific career as a director, screenwriter, and educator. His most acclaimed work, TVenezuela (1969), is a pioneering documentary that a…
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Dead well · 1967Dead well
★ 7.01967
MovieDocumentary
Dead Well (Pozo muerto, 1967) is a Venezuelan documentary directed by Carlos Rebolledo and produced by the avant-garde collective El Techo de la Ballena. Through a series of testimonies from residents of the oil towns of Cabimas and Lagunillas, the film recounts the human cost of Venezuela’s oil industry. Tracing the country's petroleum history from the 1922 Barroso II oil well blowout to the late 1960s, it exposes the exploitation, poverty, and environmental devastation endured by communities along the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo. Filmed in black-and-white on 35mm, the documentary is regarded as a landmark work of the New Latin American Cinema.
Enough! · 1969Enough!
★ 9.01969
Movie
“Through the use of violent symbols (loosely associated with Artaud’s notion of cruelty), some of the consequences of the current social organization in Latin-America are exposed: the alienation, marginalization and reification of men, and the continuous presence of imperialism, considered as rape.” (UU)
Diamantes · 1969Diamantes
1969
MovieDocumentary
Diamantes, short produced by the ULA, registered the birth of a new town: San Salvador de Paul, the arrival of new residents, farmers who ventured in search of riches, merchants, gamblers, prostitutes, all trying to snatch the momentary wealth of those who discovered the mineral, typical image of underdevelopment.
Elections · 1967Elections
★ 6.01967
MovieDocumentary
Documentary on the electoral system in Uruguay. It focused on the upcoming federal elections, criticizing both of the country's political parties.
TVenezuela · 1969TVenezuela
1969
MovieDocumentaryAnimation
An analysis of the history of television in Venezuela, subjected to economic power and market interests. The film explores the messages that television reproduces through its "anchors" and the much-criticised soap operas.
Children of Gernika · 1968Children of Gernika
1968
MovieDocumentary
Since the 1940s, the Basque community in Venezuela maintained the Basque government in exile through its contributions and was very active in denouncing Franco's dictatorship, running countless propaganda campaigns. The PNV (Basque Nationalist Party), the main figure in this struggle, made this film — a testimony of the Basque resistance to Franco's regime.
Venezuela tres tiempos (Fragmentos del anti-desarrollo) · 1972Venezuela tres tiempos (Fragmentos del anti-desarrollo)
★ 7.01972
MovieDocumentary
A motion picture of the economic and social situation in current Venezuela, through three characters affected one way or another by dependency and neocolonialism.
Juegos y Rondas Tradicionales del Uruguay · 1966Juegos y Rondas Tradicionales del Uruguay
1966
MovieDocumentary
Documentary made from the record of five manifestations of Uruguayan children's folklore: «El rango», «La rayuela», «Andelito de oro», «La farolera» and «San Severín del monte» / «Los oficios».