Armando Arce
Directing
Biography
Armando Arcehas is a Venezuela filmmaker that has also successfully through the art of painting, sculpture and film. In all these fields, he has stood out for his inventiveness, since his little clay figures made for set designs and characters of films internationally have been awarded at film festivals; his big scale painting that has been awarded at prestigious exhibition rooms of Latin America; until his incursion in sculpture appreciated by the specialized studies on the subject, all of them evidence the versatility of this creator. Among his most important animations are as Manzanita (1978), Wanady (1981), and El sueño de los hombres (1986).
Known For
Los Nevados is the first peasant feature film from Venezuela. The magical poetry about humans who endure an almost animal, almost instinctive, almost sad existence, which turns into a complaint.
Los Nevados
Animation film by Armando Arce about the Venezuelan petroglyphs.
Kariña
Animation film by Armando Arce.
Tres cuentos infantiles
Animation inspired by an ancient Yekuana indigenous myth, it narrates the creation of women and men.
El sueño de los hombres
Through a meeting of construction craftsmen, Tapiales is a documentary that describes the entire processes of recruitment and construction of a rural house in the southern towns of the state of Merida. It revives the memory of ancient builders.
Tapiales
Animation based on the Watunna, sacred book by the Yekuana people.
Wanadi
Feature film by Armando Arce.
Los dolientes
Antology of political animations by Armando Arce.
Desanimaciones
Armando Arce (b. 1948) has led a restless and multifaceted life as a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, diplomat, and teacher. Deeply committed to the cultural development of his country, he has devoted much of his career to education and to the growth of Venezuelan cinema. His path into filmmaking began during the political ferment of the 1970s, when Super-8 cameras became accessible tools for popular expression in working-class neighborhoods. Today he faces two of his most ambitious projects: the creation of the Museum of Cinema and Audiovisual Art (MUCAAC) in Mérida and the National Center for Animation Cinema in Caracas.
Eppur Si Muove: Armando Arce, la aventura del movimiento
Based on a story by Julio Garmendia. Animation about the inferiority complex suffered by the native apple when faced to imported apples.