Jorge Acha
Directing
Biography
Jorge Luis Acha (November 10, 1946, Miramar, Buenos Aires, Argentina - October 12, 1996, Miramar, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentine plastic artist, writer, screenwriter, photographer, and filmmaker. He studied at the "Prilidiano Pueyrredón" National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires where he graduated as a drawing teacher and painting teacher. Between 1975 and 1989, he had several individual painting exhibitions in Argentina, Bulgaria, Spain, Peru and Brazil. His feature film "Habeas Corpus" won the Bariloche First Film Festival Award in 1987. None of his films had a commercial release and today they are considered cult films. He also wrote about cinema in the magazines "El amigo americano" and "Biógrafo" between 1979 and 1980. He died at the age of 49, while inspecting the land where he was going to build his future home.
Known For
A young man at the beach wearing a crucifix tries to put on his Argentina's national football team t-shirt but it suffocates him
No se culpe a nadie
Short film by Jorge Acha filmed in 16mm, about two young men who share the memory of a woman.
Impasse
Five bricklayers work to construct and subsequently demolish a monument under the direction of a pseudo-architect. As they toil, the workers succumb to distractions and base desires, effectively dismantling the myths of national identity and cultural foundations.
Standard
16mm black & white with ending in colour. A fantasy about the origin of colour in the world. It was filmed at the dunes of Miramar's vivarium. The actor in the film, José Luis Leduc was disappeared years later by Videla's dictatorship. As of today, the film is listed as not available or lost.
Veo-veo
Shows four days in the life of a man clandestinely kept in captivity. The images of his naked body alternate with those of a happy moment on a beach and with those of his captor, who spends his time looking at bodybuilding magazines.
Habeas Corpus
Short film in 16mm colour, silent. A young lady arrives in Miramar and meets a man. They visit different places. It was financed by the Tourism Commision of General Alvarado. It was musicalized with fragments from the LP "Percusión de Locura". It is currently listed as not available or lost.
Sueño feliz
A young jewish man is attacked by a group of nazis somewhere by the sea
La estrella de David
A young woman goes to the beach where she finds a handsome fisherman that catches her attention
Marcy y Miguelo
Life in a circus. As of today, this short film is considered to be lost.
Producciones Arena
Posthumous film by Jorge Acha, whose narrative axis focuses on the journey undertaken by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimée Bonpland along with three indigenous people in the Orinoco basin and which will be told in the book by the German botanist entitled Viaje a los equinocciales del Ecuador. The male body is seen as a locus onto which social aggression is reflected and accumulated.Bodies that are virile and youthful yet tragically powerless.
Mburucuyá: Portraits of Nature
Documentary film about the Argentine artist and filmmaker Jorge Luis Acha as told by himself
Thálassa, un autorretrato de Jorge Acha
A man runs through a forest with a shotgun
Emboscada
A little boy walks around the seaside town of Miramar in Argentina
Gustavo
Two friends find a mysterious black-cloaked figure on the beach
El diablo
A pair of twin brothers (or are they the same person?) lust over a woman
Juan y Pedro
Portrait of a young woman having fun at the beach