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Jorge Suárez

Jorge Suárez

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Biography

Jorge Suárez Rivas (1933–2011) was a Peruvian documentarian and a member of the first generation of short filmmakers under Peru’s Film Law 19327.

Known For

Mirage
7.0

A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.

Mirage

1972
Runan Caycu
10.0

Illustrates the life of Saturnino Huillca, a peasant union leader, and the motivations that lead the Quechua peasantry to undertake the struggle for their social activists. The events that came to constitute a force of pressure that moved the country and made it see the importance of carrying out the agrarian reform.

Runan Caycu

1973
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Short film.

Bosques de Amotape, Inicios de un Parque Nacional

1988
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Short film.

Embriones Marinos

1982
History of a River
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Tracking the Rímac River, which originates in the Andean snow-capped mountains at 5,000 meters above sea level and runs for 125 kilometers before emptying into the Pacific Ocean, crossing a wide range of ecosystems found throughout Peru’s diverse geography, and highlighting its influence on both human life and nature along its entire course.

History of a River

1978
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Short film.

Palmeras de la Amazonia Peruana

1990
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Short film.

Flora de Machu Picchu

1978
Land of Potters
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In Simbilá, on the northern coast of Peru, families of potters continue to preserve millenia-old traditions. With a wooden paddle and a stone, they mold clay into everyday objects for contemporary life.

Land of Potters

1981
Guitarra sin Cuerdas
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In the Chincha Valley, the historic center of slavery in Peru, a group of children discover the history of their race through music and an elderly villager.

Guitarra sin Cuerdas

1975
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Short film.

Dilema del Trópico Amazónico

1984
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Short film.

Ceramistas del Alto Piura

1982
The Skin of the Earth
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Modifications that the Earth’s crust constantly undergoes due to the action of natural elements such as rain, wind, etc.

The Skin of the Earth

1978
Waru Waru
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Waru Waru is the name given by the inhabitants of the Puno highlands to an ancient agricultural technique that allows them to make use of the vast flood-prone plains. By raising the land into large ridges and using dikes, canals, and drainage systems, they are able to create favorable conditions for farming.

Waru Waru

1985
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Short film.

Lamas, Tradición y Cambio

1980
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The dance of the black people of the town of El Carmen de Chincha as a transcendent popular expression.

Baila Negro

1975
On the Shore
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On the rocky shores of the Peruvian coast, it is still possible to observe a wide variety of marine organisms that once occupied the earliest links in the chain of life on our planet.

On the Shore

1976
Carmine Cochineal
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The loss of the carmine dyeing technique, which reached great development during the Inca era.

Carmine Cochineal

1983
Ashaningas of the Cutivireni
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In Satipo, in the jungle region of Junín, live the Asháninka, an ancestral ethnic group of the Upper Amazon. Surrounded by the encroaching civilization of the white man, they are living the final days of their original culture, which is rooted in harmony with nature.

Ashaningas of the Cutivireni

1989
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Short film.

Plankton

1976
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Short film.

Las Lomas

1977