Iñaki Oñate
Directing
Biography
IÑAKI OÑATE BIOFILMOGRAPHY: Iñaki Oñate (Quito, 1988). Graduated in Cinematography from the FUC (Cinema University), he has worked in direction, editing, script, music and sound design from his production company Undergofilms. He is finishing his Master's theses in Documentary Film at the FUC. Selected Filmography: Notes On The Death of A Cinema (Official Selection London Shortfilm Festival 2024, Official San Francisco DocFest Festival 2024, Official Selection Beijing Shortfilm Festival 2024, Best Documentary Shortfilm Firenze Film Festival 2024, Official Selection Edoc Ecuadorean Documentary Film Festival Festival 2024) - H-151: Perfect Machine (Official Selection San Francisco Latino Film Festival 2023) -Bocetos: Sobre La Guerra y La Peste-Sketches: About War and The Plague (Official Selection Assimetria Festival of Brazil 2023. Official Selection Meanwhile Cinema, Uruguay, 2023) - Garay (Selection Parallel Festival MAUAL Miradas y Memorias Latinoamericanas 2023, Brazil. Official selection Buenos Aires Red Blood Festival, section Historias del Terror 1, 2022, Argentina. Official selection Festival Edoc Ecuentros del Otro Cine, 2022, Ecuador). - Berenice Three Video Letters (Competitive Selection MAUAL Miradas y Memorias Latinoamericanas Festival 2023, Brazil. Official selection BAFICI, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, Official Avant-garde and Gender Competition, 2022, Official Selection Assimetria Festival of Brazil, Special Mention from the Jury , 2022) -Electric Church (Special Mention of the Young Jury at the Buenos Aires Unusual Film Festival, 2016) -El Fin de la Película-The End of the Movie (Official Competition Buenos Aires Unusual Film Festival, Marché du Film Festival de Cannes, 2015). -Señor Dios del Insecto-Lord God of the Insect (Official Selection New York film and video festival, Official Selection Los Angeles Shortfest, 2007) -Rostros del Tiempo – Faces of Time (Official selection World Cinema Festival, Montréal, official selection Chicago Latino Film Festival, Official Selection Low.Budget Film Festival Havana, Cuba, Official Selection Short Circuit Latin Short Film Festival New York, 2007, EDOC Ecuador Festival, 2006) -La Máquina-The Machine (Official Selection Ibero-American Film Festival CERO LATITUD, Low.Budget Film Festival Havana, Cuba, 2006). His work as a graphic artist has been published in North American in the art magazine Art Market Magazine: https://pocketmags.com/art-market-magazine https://artmarketmag.com/
Known For
H-151 is an android that suddenly starts to have human memories. Humanity seeks to resist despite the power and indifference of the machines.
H-151: Perfect Machine
A young film professor and his student will find themselves entangled in a plot revolving around a mysterious can of film containing secret information related to one of the darkest chapters in human history. Which force will ultimately retain this mysterious can of film? Good or evil?
Handmade Shoes
The imminent closure of a small cinema in the Constitución neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will be the propitious element to reflect on the mystique of the cinemas of yesteryear and on the figure of the film projectionist. A personal homage to the liturgy of cinema, its ghosts and its dreams.
Apuntes sobre la muerte de un cine
A conversation between a father (the poet) and his son (the illustrator) about imagination as the creator and, at the same time, transgressor of reality.
Sketches: On War and The Plague
A personal tribute to the liturgy of cinema, to its ghosts and its dreams.
Notes on the Death of A Cinema
A book torn to pieces by a basset hound dog will awaken memories and anecdotes in the form of three video letters, addressed to Berenice. A romance from the past. The letters are intended to invite her to a reunion to remember old times. Could it be that she accepts the invitation?
Berenice (Three Videoletters)
Built in 1965 and located on Avenida Juan de Garay, in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, a residential building holds an extraordinary mystery that is part of the everyday lives of its tenants. An archetypal secret intersects the lives of the inhabitants of Garay, whose stories are intertwined with Argentine popular history, isolation and imagination.
Garay
With the arrival of major international movie theater chains in the late 1990s, the era of the old-fashioned movie theaters in Quito came to an end. For more than 80 years, the city was dominated by iconic movie theaters that captivated audiences like no other. The Bolívar, Variedades, Atahualpa, Alhambra, Capitol, and Fénix theaters, among others, were the gods of cinema that, in their heyday, projected illusions, desires, and fantasies onto the big screen for viewers. This documentary is a journey through time, a reconstruction of that cinematic memory through testimonies, vestiges, and memories.