Hugo Santiago

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The city of Aquilea has fallen under siege by sinister forces. A group of middle-aged men, led by a somewhat older man, resolve to mount clandestine resistance to the invaders and defend their city. Meetings are held, maps are studied, strategies are proposed—but can the invasion really be overcome?

Lost for years then rediscovered in 2004, the history of Hugo Santiago’s debut and its magical genre fluidity (is it an avant-garde crime thriller, a political sci-fi?) are the stuff of legend. Co-written by Jorge Luis Borges, who said it “may well be the first example of a new fantastic genre.”Read More »

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Very rare documentary about writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot, it’s based on the important book by Christophe Bident “Maurice Blanchot. Partenaire invisible” about the life and work of the author. Bident himself is present in the film as co-writer of the screenplay and as interviewed. Important philosophers and writers talk about Blanchot: Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Michel Surya, Roger Laporte, Louis-René des Forêts, Marguerite Duras, etc.Read More »

Le Ciel du Centaure is Hugo Santiago’s last film.

Plot : The Engineer had never been to South America before. His vessel, heading towards Patagonia makes a stop at dusk in Buenos Aires, from where it’ll depart again the following day…Read More »

With Les Trottoirs De Saturne, Hugo Santiago returns to Aquileia, the fiction city of his classic debut Invasion, but here explores the fate of its exiles in Paris. Drawing extensivly from his own experience in Paris where he relocated from Argentina to make films (first as assistant to Robert Bresson then to produce his own films) and then became an exile, unable to return, as Argentina was overtaken by a miliarty dictatorship during his abscence.Read More »

nvasion is the legend of a city, real or imagined, under attack by powerful enemies and defended by a handful of men who may not be heroes. They will carry on their struggle to the finish, unaware that the battle is endless.

“Two analogous experiences, distant from each other, now live in my memory. The oldest has been with me since 1923: I’m referring to that afternoon when I held in my hands the first copy of my first book. The other, the recent one, is the emotion I felt when I saw Invasion on the screen. A printed book is not so different from a manuscript; a film is a visible projection, detailed, heard, enriched, and magical os something dreamed, barely descried. As I am one of the authors, I cannot allow myself to priase it. I would like to leave in writing, however, that Invasion es loke no other film, and it might well be the first of a new fantastic genre” –Jorge Luis Borges, Buenos Aires, April 1969Read More »