Luis Ospina

Luis Ospina

Born: June 14, 1949
Died: September 27, 2019
in Cali, Colombia
Luis Ospina (14 June 1949 – 27 September 2019) was a Colombian film director. He is one of the founders of Caliwood film movement along with Carlos Mayolo and Andrés Caicedo.

Movies for Luis Ospina...

Ospina Cali Colombia
Title: Ospina Cali Colombia
Character: Self
Released: May 17, 2024
Type: Movie
An encounter, in Lisbon, with Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina (1949- 2019). He talks about the troubled modern history of Colombia, while remembering his life and work: his childhood, the early affinity with cinema, his time in the United States, his comeback to his birth country, and the foundation of Grupo de Cali, alongside Carlos Mayolo and Andrés Caicedo.
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The Stillness Syndrome
Title: The Stillness Syndrome
Character: Self
Released: April 17, 2021
Type: Movie
In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.
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A Ballad for Dead Children
Title: A Ballad for Dead Children
Character: Luis Ospina
Released: March 13, 2020
Type: Movie
'A Ballad for dead children' is a tribute to Andrés Caicedo and Cali and it's group, as the seed of a cinematographic phenomenon, but it goes one step further. Testimonies and fragment readings compose, together with a very powerful archive material, the story of a story that has a deep sense and cinematographic interest: the story of Andrés and his eternal fascination with horror literature and cinema b, the of the boy who was born to write, that of the young man who decided to mock death by planning his own ending. A film that tries to maintain the difficult balance on the fine line that separates and unites the two: man and work, work and man, in an eternal and indissoluble way.
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Holy Beasts
Title: Holy Beasts
Character: Martín
Released: July 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Remembers an artist in the form of a somnambulistic fantasy: A filmmaker faces increasing challenges as she tries, decades later, to complete Dominican filmmaker Jean-Louis Jorge’s unfinished work.
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Jairo’s Revenge
Title: Jairo’s Revenge
Character: Self
Released: March 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Jairo José Pinilla Téllez is the pioneer of suspense and science fiction in Colombian film. Pinilla was the first to use special effects in Colombian film and now, at the age of over 70, he is working to finish his last film. This documentary follows Jairo’s footsteps through Colombian film.
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It All Started at the End
Title: It All Started at the End
Character: Himself
Released: September 13, 2015
Type: Movie
An intimate portrait of the pioneering artistic collective Grupo de Cali, whose work is now considered a fundamental part of Colombia’s film history.
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Video (B)art(h)es
Title: Video (B)art(h)es
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Split screen experimental film.
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Our Film
Title: Our Film
Character: Luis Ospina
Released: June 5, 1993
Type: Movie
Faced with his imminent death from AIDS, Colombian artist Lorenzo Jaramillo looks back on his life and work through the five senses.
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The Manor of Araucaima
Title: The Manor of Araucaima
Character: The Director
Released: February 24, 1986
Type: Movie
In an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent pilot, the Haitian servant, the mercenary guardian and the Machiche, a mature and dominant female. A young model arrives there to unleash all kinds of passions.
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In Search of Maria
Title: In Search of Maria
Character: Alfredo del Diestro
Released: June 16, 1985
Type: Movie
Based on the only four surviving shots of the first Colombian silent film, MARÍA (1921), by directors Máximo Calvo (Colombia) and Alfredo del Diestro (Spain), IN SEARCH OF ‘MARIA’ combines historical research, interviews, and scenic reconstruction to rescue the memory of a lost film.
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Bloody Flesh
Title: Bloody Flesh
Character: Dr. Rafael Francisco Vallesilla
Released: December 25, 1983
Type: Movie
August 6, 1956 during the military dictatorship of Rojas Pinilla. A military convoy loaded with dynamite explodes in the center of Cali, destroying a good part of the traditional buildings of the city and exposing the roots of some houses that for years had kept the secret stories of their inhabitants.
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Self-Portrait (Asleep)
Title: Self-Portrait (Asleep)
Character: Himself
Released: December 17, 1971
Type: Movie
Experimental film inspired by Andy Warhol's 'Sleep'.