Hugo Santiago

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

0.8013

Gender

Male

Birthday

12-Dec-1939

Age

(87 years old)

Place of Birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Also Known As
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Hugo Santiago

Biography

Hugo Santiago Muchnick was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and lived in France from 1959 until his death in 2018. He studied Literature, Philosophy and Music. From 1959-66 he was assistant director to Robert Bresson. In 1969, he made his first feature film Invasión in his native Argentina based on an idea by celebrated writers Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges, who also co-wrote the script. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Credits

Hay cartas que detienen un instante más la noche - Correspondencia Llinás-Piñeiro Hay cartas que detienen un instante más la noche - Correspondencia Llinás-Piñeiro (2020) Character: archival
During the quarantine in 2020, the two friends Mariano Llinás and Matías Piñeiro sent each other video letters – 8 in total, 4 each of them – to create a compilation of ideas, thoughts and exchanges commissioned by Sergi Álvarez Riosalido for La Casa Encendida (Madrid). Llinás is in Argentina and Piñeiro is in New York, and they begin to order each other portraits of places, reflections on artists, ideas on cinema.
Borges/Santiago: variaciones sobre un guion Borges/Santiago: variaciones sobre un guion (2008) Character: N/A
Hugo Santiago discusses the process of writing with Jorge Luis Borges the screenplay for the film Invasión (1969).
Comentario sobre Les Autres Comentario sobre Les Autres (2018) Character: Himself
In 1973 Hugo Santiago made Les Autres, his second feature film. The film was produced in Paris by a team composed mostly of Argentines, and written together with Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Even so, the film ends up representing France in the official competition at the Cannes festival in 1974. That premiere is a great scandal in which political reasons and film criticism are confused. In this brief introduction, Hugo gives us some clues to better understand his most unknown work, and suggests that after the controversy unleashed in Cannes his career changed forever.
El escarabajo de oro El escarabajo de oro (2014) Character: Voice of Leandro N. Alem
Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, greed, gold treasures left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th Century vs. the contemporary and the search for truth and wisdom are the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentine film director.
Les Trois couronnes du matelot Les Trois couronnes du matelot (1991) Character: (voice)
Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story.
Colloque de chiens Colloque de chiens (1987) Character: N/A
A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.
El Teorema de Santiago El Teorema de Santiago (2016) Character: Himself
In 1969 Argentine filmmaker Hugo Santiago directed Invasión, his opera prima, written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and later settled in France. This film documents his return to Buenos Aires in 2013 to shoot his latest film, Le ciel du centaure.

Catherine Deneuve à l'aventure ou une certaine blondeur Catherine Deneuve à l'aventure ou une certaine blondeur (1978) Character: Self
A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. Several of the directors for whom she has made films are also interviewed



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