Sergio García Michel
Directing
Biography
Sergio García Michel (July 28, 1945 - September 19, 2010). Mexican director, academic, cultural promoter, and rocker at heart. Known in the film industry as "El Super ochero", independent filmmaker and a pioneer of Super 8mm cinema in Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as a mentor to several generations. Sergio García's Super 8mm work, produced between 1968 and 2007, includes: 12 fiction short films; one medium-length fiction film; one feature-length fiction film; 25 documentary short films; and 9 children's genre short film. In video: 3 fiction pieces; 28 documentaries; and 11 music videos.
Known For
Bogotá, 1980. During the government of President Turbay. An urban cell of the M-19 invades the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, taking 14 ambassadors as hostages. They demand that they be exchanged for political prisoners. The film focuses on the events that took place during those two months of captivity.
La toma de la embajada
"Luz Externa was one of the most ambitious productions of the Mexican super 8. The script is based on the monologue of Ernesto, a jipiteca machín, who tells a friend of his mystical adventures with his girlfriend [...] What was probably the super 8 film that best portrayed the countercultural world of the first half of the seventies in Mexico was not seen in its time, despite the expectation that its filming caused in the press." - Álvaro Vázquez Mantecón, El Cine Súper 8 en México
Luz Externa
Mexican feature film
Santa Fe
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De amores y delitos: Bituima 1780
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Una larga experiencia
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Las Calles Negras
8mm short filmed in the Festival de Rock y Ruedas, commonly known as Avándaro, which took place in Valle de Bravo, State of México in Sept. 11th and 12th, 1971.
Avándaro
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El cantar de los cantores
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Todos los Caminos van a Anexas
1979 Mexican experimental film
Patria Libre
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La venida del papa
Daffy, psychedelic fantasy about a hippie idyll interrupted by straights and a scheme to lace the water supply with LSD; prodded by the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Ah, Verda’?
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Betty Rock y el Último Súper 8
Four rebellious young Mexican women band together as outlaws in this film without audible dialogue, set to a soundtrack chiefly comprised of of Mexican rock & roll.
Un toke de roc
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¡Qué Tiempos Aquellos!
The life and military career of Peter Brill, the last surviving Luftwaffe pilot who had trained for Hitler’s secret, aborted mission to bomb New York City.
Peter Brill's Diary
'El Fin' drastically divides youth into two waves: there are couples composed of girls who paint oil landscapes and fall in love with young people with long hair, to go to the countryside to enjoy love and peacefully sing protest songs. But not for long: to the chords of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" will appear a priest, a soldier, an official and a charro to interrupt the idyll and harass the youth soundly rebellious.