José Celestino Campusano
Argentinean filmmaker, producer and writer José Celestino CAMPUSANO (1964) was born in Quilmes in the Buenos Aires region and studied film in Avellaneda in the 1980s. After that, he disappeared from the film scene but returned in 2005 with the short film Bosques. Since then, he has produced more than 12 feature films, including award-winning films like El perro Molina/Dog Molina (2014) and Vikingo (2009). He has also turned to other media, like VR, with Brooklyn Experience (2017). In 2018, IFFR dedicated a retrospective to Campusano's work. In 2019, Hombres de piel dura/Men of Hard Skin will have its world premiere at IFFR.
Filmography
(selection) Bosques (2005, short, co-dir), Legión – Tribus urbanas motorizadas (2006, doc), Vil romance/Twisted Romance (2008), Vikingo (2009), Paraíso de sangre (2011), Fango/Mud (2012), Fantasmas de la ruta/Ghosts of the Road (2013), El perro Molina/Dog Molina (2014), Place y martirio (2015), El arrullo de la araña/The Spider's Lullaby (2015), El sacrificio de Nehuén Puvelli (2016), Cícero impune (2017), El azote (2017), Brooklyn Experience (2017), El silencio a gritos (2018), Hombres de piel dura/Men of Hard Skin (2018)
José Celestino Campusano at IFFR
El arrullo de la araña
78'
Argentina
IFFR 2018
El azote
88'
Argentina
IFFR 2018
Brooklyn Experience
60'
USA
IFFR 2018
Fango
107'
Argentina
IFFR 2018
Fantasmas de la ruta
198'
Argentina
IFFR 2018
Legión – Tribus urbanas motorizadas
61'
Argentina
IFFR 2018
El perro Molina
87'
Argentina
IFFR 2018
Placer y martirio
101'
Argentina
IFFR 2018
El sacrificio de Nehuén Puyelli
87'
Argentina
IFFR 2018
Vikingo
85'
Argentina
IFFR 2018
Vil romance
105'
Argentina
IFFR 2018
Hombres de piel dura
The end of an Argentinian love affair between a farmer’s son and a preacher. For one it means freedom, for the other punishment.
96'
Argentina
IFFR 2019
La secta del gatillo
In this VR project by José Campusano (he had a retrospective at IFFR in 2018) you step straight into the shady world of corrupt police officers in Buenos Aires.
59'
Argentina
IFFR 2019