Starting today, Monday, September 27, online platform DAFilms Americas will host a 13-film retrospective of the iconic Colombian director Luis Ospina, in commemoration of the second anniversary of his death. A central figure of Colombian and Latin American cinema, Ospina had a prolific filmography of 34 titles spanning over fifty years.
DAFilms Americas had already been streaming nine of Ospina’s films for over a year—including some of his most renowned films such as The Vampires of Poverty (co-directed by Carlos Mayolo, 1977), The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant Portrait of Fernando Vallejo (2003), and It All Started At The End (2015)—and has added today four additional titles to their collection.
These new titles include an exuberant satire made at the Carnival of Cali, a short about the revenge of a housemaid against her masters (co-directed by Mayolo, Ospina's collaborator on The Vampires of Poverty), a very early film that utilizes stock footage to gleefully imagine the destruction of Washington D.C., and an idiosyncratic adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Erostratus, the short that was Ospina’s first project at the UCLA Film School in Los Angeles (and which he shot in the city).
Check out the Luis Ospina retrospective at DAFilms Americas.
