Luis Cristián Sánchez Garfias (born 19 June 1951) is a
Chilean film director, writer and teacher.
He is best known as one of the few who actively made
underground film inside the
repressive Pinochet regime and is a self-proclaimed adherent of the ''
Poetics of Cinema
''Poetics of Cinema'' is a book series of film theory by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz (1941-2011) consisting principally of lectures he gave in diverse locations between 1990 and 2009.
Overview
In ''Poetics of Cinema 1: Miscellanies'' (1995), ...
'' of
Raúl Ruiz whom he studied under at the
Universidad Católica in the early 1970s and wrote a book about in 2011.
His films ''
El zapato chino
EL, El or el may refer to:
Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American ...
'' (1979) and ''
Los deseos concebidos
LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to:
Science and technology
* Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation
* Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers
* Level of significance, a measure of statistical significanc ...
'' (1982) were both shown at the
Berlinale in 1983
and both figure in cinechile.cl's 2016 greatest Chilean films of all-time list.
Select filmography
* ''
Vías paralelas'' (1975)
* ''
El zapato chino
EL, El or el may refer to:
Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American ...
'' (1979)
* ''
Los deseos concebidos
LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to:
Science and technology
* Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation
* Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers
* Level of significance, a measure of statistical significanc ...
'' (1982)
* ''
El otro round'' (1984)
* ''
El cumplimiento del deseo'' (1994)
* ''
Cuídate del agua Mansa'' (1995)
* ''
Cautiverio feliz'' (1998)
* ''
Camino de sangre'' (2003)
* ''
Tiempos malos'' (2008)
* ''
La promesa del retorno'' (2020)
* ''
Date una vuelta en el aire'' (2020)
Bibliography
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Further reading
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References
External links
*
El campo ausente: El cine de Cristián Sánchez
1951 births
Living people
Chilean film directors
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