Armando Rojas Guardia
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Biography
Armando Rojas Guardia (Caracas, September 8, 1949 – ibid., July 9, 2020) was a renowned Venezuelan poet, essayist, and facilitator of literary workshops. His work is commonly associated with Latin American mystical thought, as well as with aspects related to sensuality and his self-recognition as a homosexual and a catholic. He was a member of the avant-garde poetry group Tráfico, with other poets like Yolanda Pantin, Igor Barreto, Rafael Castillo Zapata, Alberto Márquez, and Miguel Márquez.
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This documentary takes us on a sensorial and atmospheric journey through the experiences, words and thoughts of the Venezuelan essayist and poet Armando Rojas Guardia. His early connection with the divine, the gradual inner maturation of a mystical experience that he manages to glimpse in his early adulthood, the determining and complex influence of his father (also a writer), his first crush on a young high school classmate, the profound experience of homoeroticism, the abysses of the psychotic crisis. All experiences pushed to the limit and which make up some of the singular elements of a unique artistic and intellectual quest with a broad universal scope.
Intemperie. La experiencia de Armando Rojas Guardia
Inspired by the discrimination suffered by his uncle Ramón because of his sexual condition, John Petrizzelli uses the screen to narrate the life of different people who have something in common: sexual-diversity. The stories feature from the anecdotal to the transcendental, looking for the intimate world of old age without losing sight of the life of each character with different ways of looking at aging, loneliness and death.
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Documentary about the Venezuelan poet Armando Rojas Guardia.