Luis Ospina

Silent Witnesses (2023)

Mudos testigos is a cinematographic collage made from all the surviving material of Colombian silent films, re-editing the images in such a way as to create a single imaginary film: the impossible love story of Efraín and Alicia that traces the convulsive ...

The Eye of the Tourist: XIII Easy Pieces (2021)

Between 2014 and 2017, Luis Ospina and Lina González made a series of travels through some Asian countries; perhaps the antipodes of their symbolic world. These travels started a series of records, articulated in a kind of travel log in the style of a mo ...

It All Started at the End (2015)

An intimate portrait of the pioneering artistic collective Grupo de Cali, whose work is now considered a fundamental part of Colombia's film history. ...

Hay Que Ser Paciente (2015)

Caminar es bueno para la Salud (2014)

For lina Gonzalez Vergara. ...

A Paper Tiger (2008)

The life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia, is both incomplete and contradictory. Taking his life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year 1934 up until 1981, when the a ...

De la ilusión al desconcierto: Cine colombiano 1970-1995 (2007)

The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant Portrait of Fernando Vallejo (2003)

Freely expressing his loves and hates, controversial Colombian and openly gay writer Fernando Vallejo (living in Mexico) breaks with an ingrained literary tradition: that of the omniscient writer who sees and knows everything. The film covers his literary ...

Video (B)art(h)es (2003)

A video art piece that combines citations from the filmmaker's first films with footage shot in India. It was commissioned by Colombian visual artist José Alejandro Restrepo and took inspiration from A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, by Roland Barthes. ...

Breath of Life (1999)

It begins with the tragedy of Armero, during the course investigates the murder of a beautiful woman and on his way some people die in the end a killing and a cemetery. Emerson Roque Fierro, former policeman and private investigator shadowing, investigates ...

Cali: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1995)

Documentary on Cali in Colombia ...

Chapter 66 (1994)

A wild short made as part of a filmmaking workshop that Raúl Ruiz ran in Bogotá in October 1993. ...

Our Film (1993)

Faced with his imminent death from AIDS, Colombian artist Lorenzo Jaramillo looks back on his life and work through the five senses. ...

At Your Service (1991)

The taxi drivers of Cali, both those working the day shift and those working the night shift, talk about work, customers, and violence, revealing their vision of the city, real or fantasized. Third installment of the crafts trilogy. ...

At Your Feet (1991)

A film about shoeshiners in the streets of Cali. A pure piece of direct cinema in the first installment of the crafts trilogy. ...

At Your Head (1991)

Hairdressers in Cali discuss life, work, dreams, beauty, fashion, and homosexuality. The filmmaker is having a haircut too. Second installment of the crafts trilogy. ...

Cámara Ardiente (1991)

Video-survey with fixed camera about the Cali people. They are asked about different topics: happiness, money, innocence, love... ...

Goodbye to Cali (1990)

This two-part documentary series made for regional television captures a crucial moment in Cali and Ospina's relationship with its city: a crossroads where the break with the city of youth becomes inevitable and painful. The first part, Cali plane X plane, ...

Eye and Sight: Artist's Life in Danger (1987)

Ten years after "Agarrando Pueblo", a reunion with one of its protagonists, a street fakir still doing the same show. After watching the film, he reflects on his life, his work, and his image. ...

Antonio María Valencia: Music on Camera (1987)

Portrait of the Colombian composer and pianist, one of his country's most important classical musicians in the twentieth century. ...

The Manor of Araucaima (1986)

In an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent pilot, the Haitian servant, the mercenary guardian and the Machiche, a mature and dominant female. A young model arrives there to unleash all kinds of passions. ...

Andrés Caicedo: A Few Good Friends (1986)

Using the unfinished film, ANGELITA Y MIGUEL ÁNGEL, by Andrés Caicedo and Carlos Mayolo, as a structuring device, friends of prolific film critic and writer Andrés Caicedo, an unforgettable figure of the group of Cali in the 1970s who left an incredible ...

In Search of Maria (1985)

Based on the only four surviving shots of the first Colombian silent film, MARÍA (1921), by directors Máximo Calvo (Colombia) and Alfredo del Diestro (Spain), IN SEARCH OF 'MARIA' combines historical research, interviews, and scenic reconstruction to res ...

Bloody Flesh (1983)

August 6, 1956 during the military dictatorship of Rojas Pinilla. A military convoy loaded with dynamite explodes in the center of Cali, destroying a good part of the traditional buildings of the city and exposing the roots of some houses that for years ha ...

Pure Blood (1982)

Roberto Hurtado suffers from a rare disease that requires massive transfusions of blood from children or adolescents. His son blackmails three employees to get blood for him and they resort to unscrupulous methods to obtain it. ...

The Vampires of Poverty (1978)

Two filmmakers travel around impoverished sectors of the cities of Bogotá and Cali in search of the images of abjection needed to complete a documentary commissioned by German TV. Meanwhile, another camera captures these "vampire" filmmakers feeding off t ...

Asunción (1975)

The vengeance of a housemaid against the family that hired her. ...

La Hamaca (1975)

An outcast looks for a glass of water in the house of a single woman, he notices that she is industrious yet repulsive and resolves¸ under the guise of love¸ to exploit her as a servant. After some drunkenness and beatings¸ the woman decides to take rev ...

Cali: de Película (1973)

A 13 minute glimpse of the Feria de Cali celebrated between Christmas and New Year… A carnival of commodity fetishism, red devils and white indians that will be recognizable to anyone who has encountered the surrealist ethnographies of Michael Taussig. ...

The Bombing of Washington (1972)

Satirical short comprising wartime footage, purporting to be from the Soviet Film Agency and depicting a successful bomb strike on Washington. ...

Listen, Look! (1972)

Documentary about the effects of the VI Panamerican Games in the city of Cali, seen from the point of view of the people that couldn't get into the stadiums. ...

Self-Portrait (Asleep) (1971)

Experimental film inspired by Andy Warhol's 'Sleep'. ...

Act of Faith (1970)

The film adapts Jean-Paul Sartre's short story Erostratus about a man on the verge of despair who decides to buy a gun and go out to kill at random. Shot in Los Angeles, this was Ospina's first project at the UCLA Film School. Acto de fe (Redux) was restor ...

Ospina Cali Colombia (2024)

An encounter, in Lisbon, with Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina (1949- 2019). He talks about the troubled modern history of Colombia, while remembering his life and work: his childhood, the early affinity with cinema, his time in the United States, his comeb ...

The Stillness Syndrome (2021)

In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gust ...

A Ballad for Dead Children (2020)

'A Ballad for dead children' is a tribute to Andrés Caicedo and Cali and it's group, as the seed of a cinematographic phenomenon, but it goes one step further. Testimonies and fragment readings compose, together with a very powerful archive material, the ...

Holy Beasts (2019)

Remembers an artist in the form of a somnambulistic fantasy: A filmmaker faces increasing challenges as she tries, decades later, to complete Dominican filmmaker Jean-Louis Jorge's unfinished work. ...

Jairo’s Revenge (2019)

Jairo José Pinilla Téllez is the pioneer of suspense and science fiction in Colombian film. Pinilla was the first to use special effects in Colombian film and now, at the age of over 70, he is working to finish his last film. This documentary follows Jai ...

It All Started at the End (2015)

An intimate portrait of the pioneering artistic collective Grupo de Cali, whose work is now considered a fundamental part of Colombia's film history. ...

Video (B)art(h)es (2003)

A video art piece that combines citations from the filmmaker's first films with footage shot in India. It was commissioned by Colombian visual artist José Alejandro Restrepo and took inspiration from A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, by Roland Barthes. ...

Our Film (1993)

Faced with his imminent death from AIDS, Colombian artist Lorenzo Jaramillo looks back on his life and work through the five senses. ...

The Manor of Araucaima (1986)

In an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent pilot, the Haitian servant, the mercenary guardian and the Machiche, a mature and dominant female. A young model arrives there to unleash all kinds of passions. ...

In Search of Maria (1985)

Based on the only four surviving shots of the first Colombian silent film, MARÍA (1921), by directors Máximo Calvo (Colombia) and Alfredo del Diestro (Spain), IN SEARCH OF 'MARIA' combines historical research, interviews, and scenic reconstruction to res ...

Bloody Flesh (1983)

August 6, 1956 during the military dictatorship of Rojas Pinilla. A military convoy loaded with dynamite explodes in the center of Cali, destroying a good part of the traditional buildings of the city and exposing the roots of some houses that for years ha ...

Self-Portrait (Asleep) (1971)

Experimental film inspired by Andy Warhol's 'Sleep'. ...