Eduardo Montes-Bradley
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- WaissmanWaissmanWaissman is a documentary based on the life and works of Argentine artist Andrés Waissman. Waissman was entirely shot in Buenos Aires where the artist resides with his wife, Art Dealer Gachi Prieto...
(English) Producer, Director. The Heritage Film Project. 2010. Produced by Soledad Liendo. Biographical documentary on the life and works of Argentine artist Andrés Waissman. TV premier November 23, 2010 WPBT Channel 2. The documentary focus on the biographica aspects of Andrés Waissman, from his early days in the late Fifties to the present day in Buenos Aires. 30 min. 16:9 HD - CalzadaCalzadaCalzada is a documentary film based on the life and works of Mexican-American artist Claudia Calzada. Calzada was entirely shot in Miami where Claudia Calzada resides since 1960. Calzada was produced by The Heritage Film Project, and directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley, as part of a series of...
, (English) Producer, Director. The Heritage Film Project. 2010. Biographical documentary on the life and works of Cuban-American artist Humberto CalzadaHumberto CalzadaHumberto Calzada b. in Havana, on May 25, 1944, is a Cuban-American Artist living in Miami, Florida since 1960.-Life in America:Calzada's family left Cuba shortly after the communist takeover of Fidel Castro, on October 11, 1960. He attended and graduated from Coral Gables High School...
. Premiered in Miami on January 7, 2010 at the Tower Theatre, MiamiTower TheatreTower Theatre or Tower Theater may refer to:* Tower Theatre * Tower Theatre * Tower Theater * Tower Theatre * Tower Theater...
, TV premier January 12, 2010 WPBT Channel 2. Featuring Humberto CalzadaHumberto CalzadaHumberto Calzada b. in Havana, on May 25, 1944, is a Cuban-American Artist living in Miami, Florida since 1960.-Life in America:Calzada's family left Cuba shortly after the communist takeover of Fidel Castro, on October 11, 1960. He attended and graduated from Coral Gables High School...
, his early life in Havana, CubaHavanaHavana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
before the Cuban RevolutionCuban RevolutionThe Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement against the regime of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista between 1953 and 1959. Batista was finally ousted on 1 January 1959, and was replaced by a revolutionary government led by Castro...
that brought Fidel CastroFidel CastroFidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011...
to power, the first years in exile in Miami, and details on his current life as a highly regarded visual artist in the Caribbean. Original Music by Gerardo Aguillón (violin) and José Angel Navarro (guitar). 30 min. 16:9 HD - La Raulito: Golpes bajos, (trad. Low Blows). (Spanish) Producer. Argentina. 2009. Documentary on La RaulitoLa RaulitoLa Raulito is a 1975 Argentine film directed by Lautaro Murúa and written by Rocío Dúrcal, Manuel Alexandre and Rafaela Aparicio.-Synopsis:...
, historical character, fan-nascot of Boca JuniorsBoca JuniorsClub Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primera División....
, popular and renowned soccer team of ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. First time director Emiliano Serra follows La Raulito during the last days of her life. Screened at Mar del PlataMar del PlataMar del Plata is an Argentine city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata is the second largest city of Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" had apparently the sense of "sea of the Río de la Plata region" or "adjoining sea to the Río de la Plata"...
International Film Festival, December. 2009. Latin American Selection. - Evita (The Documentary)Evita (The Documentary)Evita is a documentary on the life of Eva Duarte created by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. Conformed in its entirety with previously unseen historical footage and documents, the film reconstructs the life of former Argentine first lady from an unbiased perspective...
, (English). Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Patagonia Film Group, USA, 2007. A documentary on Eva Duarte, an influential woman in the history of Latin America. Evita, illegitimate child without social or economic standing, was determined to make it big in the world of entertainment. Her love affair with a rising political star (Juan Domingo Perón) transformed her into a vital part of Perón's plans to seduce a nation. The charming Evita became a skilled public speaker that fitted perfectly with politics in Argentina. Just imagine Marilyn MonroeMarilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
with the charisma of Princess Diana, elevated by Joseph GoebbelsJoseph GoebbelsPaul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...
´s propaganda machine as the indisputable Spiritual Leader of the Nation. The documentaryDocumentaryA documentary is a creative work of non-fiction, including:* Documentary film, including television* Radio documentary* Documentary photographyRelated terms include:...
appears to be fair, perhaps the first biography on the subject that strives to be balanced. "Evita" was screened at the Virginia Film FestivalVirginia Film FestivalThe Virginia Film Festival is hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, held usually in late October/ early November.- Themes :The Virginia Film Festival has historically had a different theme each year...
, in Charlottesville, on November 4, 2011. - Deira, (Spanish) Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. EMB Entertainment, Corp, USA, 2007. Deira, a biographical documentary on renowned artist Ernesto Deira. Screened during the first retrospective of Deira's work at the National Art Gallery, MNBA (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes), commemorating twenty years of his death. The film includes 8 mm footage captured by Deira during his visit to Belgium on occasion of a first major exhibition of his work. Deira also features interviews with Olga Galperin and Luis Felipe NoéLuis Felipe NoéLuis Felipe Noé is an artist, writer, intellectual and teacher from Buenos Aires, Argentina where he is known as Yuyo. In 1961 he formed Otra Figuración with three other Argentine artists. Their eponymous exhibition and subsequent work greatly influenced the Neofiguration movement...
amongst others. - Che: Rise & FallChe: Rise & FallChe Rise and Fall is a documentary film created by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. Che: Rise and Fall, was entirely shot in Cuba at the time the remains of Che Guevara were airlifted from Bolivia to his final resting place in Santa Clara, Cuba...
, (Spanish w/English Subtitles). Witter, producer, director, editor. Patagonia Film Group, USA, 2006. US released, Nov. 2008 through Westlake Entertainment. CHE: Rise and Fall, follows on the trials and tribulations of Ernesto Guevara in the words of old friends and comrades-in-arms. The film unveils a different Che GuevaraChe GuevaraErnesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
, not so divine as the one often portrayed. Marcelo Schapces shot the bulk of this film in CubaCubaThe Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
for his own documentary: Che, a man of this world (1998). The purpose of Schapces at the time was to document the moment in which the remains of Che Guevara were being airlifted from VallegrandeVallegrandeVallegrande is a small colonial town in Bolivia, located in the Department of Santa Cruz, some 125 km southwest of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. It is the capital of the Vallegrande Province and Vallegrande Municipality and serves as a regionally important market town...
, a one horse town in BoliviaBoliviaBolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
, thirty years after his execution, to be flow to Santa Clara, CubaSanta Clara, CubaSanta Clara is the capital city of the Cuban province of Villa Clara. It is located in the most central region of the province and almost in the most central region of the country.- History :Santa Clara was founded by 175 people on July 15th, 1689...
, his final resting place. The film includes the likeness and words of Dr. Alberto Granados, Che's motorcycle companion and three surviving members of Guevara's Iron Guard. The film is divided in three four main chapters: Infancy, CubaCubaThe Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
, CongoDemocratic Republic of the CongoThe Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...
and BoliviaBoliviaBolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
. - El gran simulador (The Great Pretender), (Spanish). Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Verbum, Argentina, 2006. Released in Uruguay as "No a los papelones". El gran simulador begins with Eduardo Montes-Bradley in a quest to find Nahuel Maciel, a man who fifteen years before fooled everyone pretending to be a Native American from the MapucheMapucheThe Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. They constitute a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who shared a common social, religious and economic structure, as well as a common linguistic heritage. Their influence extended...
Nation in Patagonia. Disguised as the chief Nahuel sold interviews to Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García MárquezGabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
, Umberto Ecco, Mario Vargas LlosaMario Vargas LlosaJorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...
and more to El Cronista Comercial, a major newspaper in Argentina. The literary sham went even farther when Nahuel published a book with a bogus interview to the Colombian Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
of Literature preceded by a foreword by Uruguayan legend Eduardo GaleanoEduardo GaleanoEduardo Hughes Galeano is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego and Las venas abiertas de América Latina which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and...
. Eduardo Montes-Bradley finds Nahuel in GualeguaychúGualeguaychú, Entre RíosGualeguaychú is a city in the , on the left bank of the Gualeguaychú River . It is located on the south-east of the province, approximately 230 km north-west of Buenos Aires...
, some 300 miles from Buenos AiresBuenos AiresBuenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
working close to the leadership of a group of environmentalists battling a paper-mill in the Argentina-Uruguay border. The film is witty, provocative and politically incorrectPolitical correctnessPolitical correctness is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts,...
in all possible ways. El gran simulador was banned from theaters in Argentina for its politics (only to be shown at BAFICI, the Independent Film Festival of Buenos Aires and later released on DVD) and it was effectively released in UruguayUruguayUruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
(across the border) with good B.O. results. - TangoTango (dance)Tango dance originated in the area of the Rio de la Plata , and spread to the rest of the world soon after....
Steps, (English, Japanese, Italian, German, Chinese, Portuguese, French) Witter, producer, director. 33 min. Patagonia Film Group, USA, 2006. USA, 2006. Basic instructional video on basic tangoTango (dance)Tango dance originated in the area of the Rio de la Plata , and spread to the rest of the world soon after....
steps. - Samba On Your FeetSamba On Your FeetSamba On Your Feet is a documentary film directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. . The documentary goes behind the scenes of Samba and Carnival in Rio de Janeiro to reveal the cultural clash that gave birth to a new tradition in South America.-Synopsis:...
, (Portuguese w/English subtitles). Producer, Director, Editor. Patagonia Film Group, USA, 2005. This documentary goes behind the scenes of SambaSambaSamba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival...
and CarnivalCarnivalCarnaval is a festive season which occurs immediately before Lent; the main events are usually during February. Carnaval typically involves a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus, mask and public street party...
's world in Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
to reveal the cultural clash that gave birth to a new tradition in South America. Haroldo Costa (historian-actor-writer), narrates how African slaves' beliefs, mixed with Spanish Catholic traditions and Native influences crafted a remarkable fusion. The film includes interviews with veteran samba performer Xango da Mangueira who recalls the early days of Carnival when he and his fellow performers sang and danced in the streets and were treated like vagrants, harassed and arrested by the police. Mae Helena D'Oxosse, a priestPriestA priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...
ess in the umbandaUmbandaUmbanda is an Afro-Brazilian religion that blends African religions with Catholicism, Spiritism and Kardecism, and considerable indigenous lore....
tradition, incorporates samba in her religious practices and carries on a tradition among her working-class followers that is five hundred years old. Samba On Your Feet has been selected to participate at the Toulouse Latin American Film Festival 2008, at the Rio Film Festiva 2006, Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) 2007 and Toronto Latino Film Festival. - From Frankfurt to HumahuacaHumahuacaHumahuaca is a city in the province of Jujuy, Argentina. It has 11,369 inhabitants as per the , and is the principal town of the Department of Humahuaca...
. (Spanish). Producer. Argentina 2005. Second in the trilogy of documentaries directed by Norberto "Negro" Ramírez and produced by Eduardo Montes-Bradley on the culture of the NorthWest region of Argentina known as la PunaPunaPuna may refer to:* Puna grassland, a type of grassland in the central part of the high Andes* Puna , the king of Hiti-marama or of Vavau in the Tuamotu legend of Rata* Puna , a type of wind in the Andes...
, mainly Jujuy and SaltaSaltaSalta is a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province. Along with its metropolitan area, it has a population of 464,678 inhabitants as of the , making it Argentina's eighth largest city.-Overview:...
provinces. From Frankfurt to Humahuaca focuses on the life and works of Jorge Lovisolo, disciple of The Frankfurt School of philosophy, author of numerous essays. The film deals with Lovisolo's obsessions in a sort of self-imposed exile in SaltaSaltaSalta is a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province. Along with its metropolitan area, it has a population of 464,678 inhabitants as of the , making it Argentina's eighth largest city.-Overview:...
; his takes on religion within the local communities, the thoughts of Walter BenjaminWalter BenjaminWalter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish intellectual, who functioned variously as a literary critic, philosopher, sociologist, translator, radio broadcaster and essayist...
, Herbert MarcuseHerbert MarcuseHerbert Marcuse was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory...
, Theodore Adorno and others. - Kopla Vera, (Spanish). Producer. Argentina, c.2006. First of a trilogy by director Norberto N. Ramírez on intellectuals residing in the Northwest region of Argentina known as la PunaPunaPuna may refer to:* Puna grassland, a type of grassland in the central part of the high Andes* Puna , the king of Hiti-marama or of Vavau in the Tuamotu legend of Rata* Puna , a type of wind in the Andes...
, mainly Jujuy and SaltaSaltaSalta is a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province. Along with its metropolitan area, it has a population of 464,678 inhabitants as of the , making it Argentina's eighth largest city.-Overview:...
provinces. Kopla Vera focuses on the life and works of Jesús Ramón Vera, author of numerous verses inspired in the liturgical carnivalCarnivalCarnaval is a festive season which occurs immediately before Lent; the main events are usually during February. Carnaval typically involves a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus, mask and public street party...
of Jujuy. - El hombre invisible, (Spanish). Producer. Argentina, 2005. Directed by Eduardo López. The film is a tribute to legendary film editors in Argentina.
- Yo y el tiempo, Producer, Argentina, 2005. Third documentary on Norberto N. Ramírez trilogy on intellectuals. Yo y el tiempo is a documentary on Juan José Botelli, poet.
- Dirigido por..., (Spanish). Producer. Argentina, 2004. Film directed by Rodolfo Durán on the craft of film making. Through a series of interviews to some of Argentin's best known directors and filmmakers. Featured interviews with: Adolfo AristarainAdolfo AristarainAdolfo Aristarain is an Argentine film director whom Variety has deemed a "master filmmaker."After leaving Argentina Aristarain started working as assistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani and Lewis Gilbert before...
, Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Film Luis PuenzoLuis PuenzoLuis Adalberto Puenzo is an Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer.He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but has also worked in the United States.-Biography:...
, and others. - Insurgentes, (Spanish). Producer, Editor. Argentina, c. 2006. Dir. Pablo Doudchisky. Shot in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. The documentary focuses on the connections between terrorist organizations in South America.
- Ecce Homo, (Spanish) Producer, editor. Argentina, c. 2005. Dir. Eduardo Montes-Bradley. Original Interview by Ana Da Costa from Biblioteca NacionalBiblioteca NacionalBiblioteca Nacional may refer to:*Biblioteca Nacional de España, in Spain*Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, in Portugal*Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina, in Argentina*Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, in Brazil...
. The film is based on the las known interview to Juan FilloyJuan FilloyJuan Filloy was an Argentinian writer. At various times, he was also a swimmer and a boxing referee. He spoke seven languages. Most of his life was spent in Rio Cuarto, south of Córdoba, where he served as a judge....
. - Las memorias del señor Alzheimer, (Spanish). Producer. Argentina, 2004. Directed by Sergio Belloti. The film has as sole protagonist Jorge "Dipi" Di Paola, a dadaist-exentric, writer-poet, an unconventional character of the Buenos Aires underground during the seventies. The film was shot in 2007, shortly before Di Paola's death in TandilTandil-Place name:The name of the city comes from the Mapuche words tan , and lil . It is probably a reference to the Piedra Movediza , a large boulder which stood seemingly miraculously balanced on the edge of a rocky foothill. The Moving Stone toppled on February 29, 1912, and split into two pieces at...
, some 450 kilometers from the capital of Argentina. In the film, Di Paola, a disciple of Witold GombrowiczWitold GombrowiczWitold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish novelist and dramatist. His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and an absurd, anti-nationalist flavor...
recalls the bygone days when the polish writer and himself shared a small apartment in the city of Buenos Aires and later in Di Paola's home-town of TandilTandil-Place name:The name of the city comes from the Mapuche words tan , and lil . It is probably a reference to the Piedra Movediza , a large boulder which stood seemingly miraculously balanced on the edge of a rocky foothill. The Moving Stone toppled on February 29, 1912, and split into two pieces at...
. - Negro sobre blanco, (Black on White) (Spanish). Producer. Argentina (2004). Dir. Eduardo López. Legendary negative cutting Margarita Bróndolo recalls the early days of cinematography in Argentina. As an employee of Estudios San Miguel and other pioneer institutions Bróndolo had an opportunity to work alongside iconic figures of the dolden era of film such as Eva Duarte . The documentary abunds in clips from some of the best know, and also forgotten titles of the South American caountry cinematheque. The film was produced by Montes-Bradley who commitioned Mr. Eduardo López to direct. López, himself a celebrity within the local film industry, has over 100 titles credited to his name. His credits as editor include films by Academy Award Nominee Adolfo AristarainAdolfo AristarainAdolfo Aristarain is an Argentine film director whom Variety has deemed a "master filmmaker."After leaving Argentina Aristarain started working as assistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani and Lewis Gilbert before...
. - Jorge Riestra, (Spanish). With Jorge Riestra. Producer, Editor. 80 min., Argentina (2004). A film directed by Gustavo Postiglioni. A minor work on the saga of writers initiated by Montes-Bradley. This film seems more like a series of conversations with... than an actual documentary film. The subject, a rosarino writer (from the city of RosarioRosarioRosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....
) is not sufficiently explore by the director, leaving the audience with a sense of despair. On the other hand, perhaps that was the intended purpose. - La oficina, (Spanish). Ass. Producer. Argentina. 2004. A documentary by first-time director Blas Eloy Martínez, son of laureate writer Tomás Eloy MartínezTomás Eloy MartínezTomás Eloy Martínez was an Argentine journalist and writer.-Life and work:Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris...
. The plot is set in the background of a red-tape paradise in the institutional nightmare of Argentine bureaucracy. "Office of Notifications" (as translated from the original title), shown life in the office or department is which all court notices are prepared and later delivered. The film centers on the lives of the bureaucrats and the art of delivering citations. - Una cierta mirada, (Spanish). With Juan José Sebreli, Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Argentina, 2004. Built as a series of conversations with Juan José Sebreli (philosopher), is perhaps one of the most interesting of the documentaries on writers by Montes-Bradley. Sebreli recalls his entire life in front of camera taking the audience for a ride through timeless Buenos Aires. Sebreli's extraordinary perception of the surroundings, the arts, the architecture and the music of the city he was born in and he loves is a constant throughout the entire film. In a way, this doc can be watch as a 20th century Tour Guide of Buenos Aires, a sketch on Peronism and yet, more.
- Deliciosas perversiones polimorfas, (Spanish). With Alberto Laiseca. Writer, producer, director, editor. Argentina, 2002. The director meets Laiseca riding the oldest underground train in Buenos Aires and later at his studio. Laiseca seems an extraordinary mad-man. Some of the main issues discussed on this film are the relationship of the protagonist with his father, life in rural province of CórdobaCórdoba Province (Argentina)Córdoba is a province of Argentina, located in the center of the country. Neighboring provinces are : Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe, Buenos Aires, La Pampa, San Luis, La Rioja and Catamarca...
in the middle of the Pampas, Edgar A. Poe, William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
and the imminent arrival of the AntichristAntichristThe term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to a leader who fulfills Biblical prophecies concerning an adversary of Christ, while resembling him in a deceptive manner...
. - Recóndita Armonía, (Spanish). Writer, producer, director, editor. Argentina, 2002. Mario Diament is a renowned journalist and professor of journalism at the University of MiamiUniversity of MiamiThe University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
On this film Diament recalls Jacobo TimermanJacobo TimermanJacobo Timerman was an Argentine publisher, journalist, and author who was persecuted and honored for confronting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War...
and the years prior to and after the military coup of 1976 in Argentina. - Testigo del siglo, (Witness Of A Century), (Spanish). Writer, producer, director, editor. Argentina, 2003. Montes-Bradley directed under pen name Diana Hunter. Premiered at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent CinemaBuenos Aires International Festival of Independent CinemaThe Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente is an international festival of independent films organized each year in the month of April, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.The festival is managed by the Ministerio de Cultura del Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, it is not...
(BAFICI). The documentary is based on the memoirs of Ismael Viñas, legendary political, economist, founder of Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MALENA), former undersecretary of cuture during the Revolución LibertadoraRevolución LibertadoraThe Revolución Libertadora was a military uprising that ended the second presidential term of Juan Perón in Argentina, on September 16, 1955.-History:...
. Viñas reappears in front of Montes-Bradley's camera after twenty six years of self imposed exile. first in Israel, then in the US. During a series of interviews conducted in Florida, USAFloridaFlorida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
, Viñas reflects on his youth, on his brother DavidDavid ViñasDavid Viñas was an Argentine dramatist, critic, and novelist.-Life and career:Viñas grew up in Buenos Aires, and enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires, becoming head of the student organization Federación Universitaria de Buenos Aires...
, on his father, a well political character during the times of Hipólito YrigoyenHipólito YrigoyenJuan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Irigoyen Alem was twice President of Argentina . His activism became the prime impetus behind the obtainment of universal suffrage in Argentina in 1912...
, and a Federal Judge in PatagoniaPatagoniaPatagonia is a region located in Argentina and Chile, integrating the southernmost section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the cordillera to the valleys it follows south through Colorado River towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean...
during the uprisings portrayed in Rebellion in Patagonia during the early 1920s. Viñas also recalls his imprisonment during the Peronist period, and with particular emphasis his relationship with Ernesto Che GuevaraChe GuevaraErnesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
, and Salvador AllendeSalvador AllendeSalvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....
amongst many other relevant figures of the period. On release, the film caused somewhat of a commotion. It was acclaimed and criticize by extremist elements on the right and particularly on the left where the Ismael Viñas portrayed on the documentary was perceived as a traitor to the Marxist principles he once so strongly embraced. - El equilibrista, (Spanish). Writer, producer, director, editor. Argentina, 2003. Little is known about this documentary based on the trials and tribulations of Argentine writer Dalmiro Saenz.
- Pérez Celis, (Spanish) Producer, writer, director. USA 2005. The documentary, a portrait of Pérez CelisPérez CelisCelis Pérez was an Argentine artist usually referred to as Pérez Celis. He earned international recognition for his paintings, sculptures, murals and engravings.-Life and work:...
, captures the artist at work in his atelier in Little HaitiLittle HaitiLittle Haiti or La Petite Haïti, and traditionally known as Lemon City, is a neighborhood in Miami, Florida, United States known as a traditional center for Haitian immigrants, and Francophone culture in the city.-Lemon City, early farming days:...
. Throughout a series of conversations with Celis, Montes-Bradley manages to capture rare moments showing the artist at work. The creative process, the brushes on canvas, the mixing of colors, and the drawing of sketches share time on the screen with the anecdotal, and traces of a political road map followed by Celis from the mid 1940's to the present. - Le mot Juste, (The Right Word), (Spanish). Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Argentina, 200? The documentary tracks Héctor Tizón to his hometown of Yala, Jujuy, ArgentinaYala-Asia:* Yala National Park, Sri Lanka* Yala is the dry season in Sri Lanka, see Climate of Sri Lanka. Its counterpart is Maha, the wet season.* Yala Province, Thailand*Yala, Thailand, its administrative capital...
in Jujuy, Argentina. In a series of interviews the writer refers to his early childhood and the traumatic experience on living on the edge of two extremely different cultures: the Quechua universe of his native homeland and the Spanish culture of the conquistadores - Marcos Ribak is Andrés Rivera, (Spanish). With Andrés RiveraAndrés RiveraAndreas Rivera , a pseudonym of Marcos Ribak, is an Argentine writer. Born in Buenos Aires to immigrant parents, he was at various points a textile worker, a journalist, and a writer. From 1953–1957, Rivera worked on the staff of the magazine Plática...
and Susana Fiorito. Director, producer, editor. Argentina, 200? - Planeta Bizzio, (Spanish). Producer, editor. Argentina, 2003. Montes-Bradley, hires fresh-out-of-film school Nadina Fushimi to direct, and interview Sergio Bizzio, an offbeat-poet, playwright and novelist.
- No matarás, (Thou Shall Not Kill), (Spanish). Writer, producer, director, editor. 2004. Biographical film on Marcelo BirmajerMarcelo BirmajerMarcelo Birmajer is an Argentine Jewish author. The grandson of Romanian, Polish, Lithuanian and Syrian immigrants. Best known for writing the script for the 2004 film El abrazo partido. Birmajer's work usually revolves around the Porteño neighbourhood of Once and its colorful inhabitants...
, a Jewish-Argentine writer, frequently at odds with the overwhelming "progressive"-minded cultural aparatik of Buenos Aires. In the film, Birmajer seems lost somewhere between his native Buenos Aires and the Middle East; holding a tight grip on the umbilical cord that his Jewish-mother preserves intact for generations to-come. - La otra orilla, (Spanish). Producer, editor. Argentina, 2003. A biographical sketch of Argentine writer Luis Gusmán.
- Saludablemente en pelotas, (Spanish). Producer, editor. Argentina, 2003. A biographical sketch of Argentine writer Juan Sasturain.
- Crónicas Mexicas, Writer, producer, director, editor. Argentina, 200?. Montes-Bradley (as Rita Clavel) teams-up with Martín CaparrósMartín CaparrósMartín Caparrós is a writer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 29, 1957. His father was Antonio Caparrós, a renowned psychiatrist. Caparrós begun professional writing at age sixteen, shortly after graduating from High School at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. His first professional job in...
following on the steps of Hernán CortésHernán CortésHernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century...
from VeracruzVeracruzVeracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave , is one of the 31 states that, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided in 212 municipalities and its capital city is...
, on golf coast of MexicoMexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, to Tenochtitlan, the ancient capital of the AztecAztecThe Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.Aztec is the...
Empire. Caparrós becomes the omnipresent and omniscient protagonist of this journey through geography and time. His acute sense of irony and wit becomes a permanent fixtures throughout the entire film, provoking the audience into uncharted: the politically incorrect history of Latin America. - La célula fugitiva, (Spanish). A biographical sketch of Argentine journalist-philosopher José Pablo Feinmann. Producer, Editor. Argentina, 2002. Dir. Mariana Russo.
- Desandando el tiempo, (Spanish). Producer, editor. Argentina, 200?. Dir. Valentina Carrasco, pseudonymous of Rodolfo Durán. A biographical sketch of Argentine writer Juan Jacobo Bajarlía.
- En el nombre del padre, a biographical sketch of Argentine writer Ana María ShuaAna María ShuaAna María Shua is an Argentine writer who has published over eighty books in numerous genres including: novels, short stories, micro fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays...
. Producer, Editor. Argentina, 2002. Dir. Ma. Andrea Dominguez. - Espléndida decadencia, (Spanish). A biographical sketch of Argentine writer Daniel Guebel. Producer, Editor. Argentina, 2002
- Cortázar: apuntes para un documental, Witter, producer, director, editor. Argentina, 2002. The documentary approaches the argument dividing critics over the nature of Cortazar's political views and perspectives. Includes previously unseen footage of Cortazar shot by the author himself in front of a mirror and other scenes of Cortázar next to his first wife Aurora Bernárde, and Octavio PazOctavio PazOctavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.-Early life and writings:...
in India, and with Carole Dunlop in Paris. - Los cuentos del timonel, (Spanish). Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Argentina, 2001. The documentary deals with Osvaldo BayerOsvaldo BayerOsvaldo Bayer is a journalist and scriptwriter. He lives in Buenos Aires, and in Linz Am Rhine, Germany, where he went into exile during the "National Reorganization Process" dictatorship ....
, a controversial political figure and historian. The film was shot on Bayer's residence in Linz am RheinLinz am RheinLinz am Rhein is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the river Rhine near Remagen, approx. 25 km southeast of Bonn and has about 6,000 inhabitants...
, Germany, were he spends six months of every year. - Jorge Giannoni. NN, ése soy yo (NN, The One In The Picture Is Me). (Spanish). A film on Jorge GiannoniJorge GiannoniJorge Gianonni was an independent Argentine filmmaker.One of the milestones of his career on film was his collaboration in Raymundo Gleyzer’s La tierra quema, shot in Northeastern Brazil; also in Brazil, he collaborated with Glauber Rocha in his Terra em transe...
. Guest Appearance by EM-B as having personally known the protagonist. Dir by: Gabriela Jaime, Argentina, 2000. - Harto The BorgesHarto The BorgesHarto The Borges is a documentary film created by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. Harto The Borges escapes the unwritten rule of biographical films on Latin American writers by exploring a the narcissistic side of the author, his frequent and often criticized comments to the press, his distinctive and...
, (Spanish). Documentary on Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis BorgesJorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
. Includes rare TV footage with Jorge Luis Borges and María KodamaMaría KodamaMaría Kodama Schweitzer is the widow of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges and sole owner of his estate after his death in 1986. Borges had bequeathed to Kodama his rights as author in a will written in 1979, when she was his literary secretary, and bequeathed to her his whole estate in 1985...
aired on the occasion of Borge's 80th birthday. The film also includes interviews with Franco LucentiniFranco LucentiniFranco Lucentini was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies. His novel The Sunday Woman, which was also made into a film, 1976, with Marcello Mastroianni and Jacqueline Bisset.- Biography :...
, Martín CaparrósMartín CaparrósMartín Caparrós is a writer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 29, 1957. His father was Antonio Caparrós, a renowned psychiatrist. Caparrós begun professional writing at age sixteen, shortly after graduating from High School at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. His first professional job in...
and Ariel DorfmanAriel DorfmanVladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.-Personal...
. Harto The Borges was shot in Milan, Rome, Paris, GenevaGenevaGeneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
and Buenos Aires. Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Iruña Films, Argentina, 2000. Harto The Borges had a theatrical release in Buenos Aires on September 2000 and was well received by the local critics. - Soriano (The documentary)Soriano (The documentary)Soriano is a documentary on the life of Osvaldo Soriano by Eduardo Montes-Bradley.. Soriano includes rare footage filmed by Osvaldo Soriano and friends during the early 1960's...
, (Spanish). This is perhaps the only film ever made on Osvaldo SorianoOsvaldo SorianoOsvaldo Soriano, Journalist and writer. Born January 6, 1943 in Mar del Plata, Argentina – died on January 29, 1997 in Buenos Aires.-Biography:...
, a Best-Seller author in Argentina in the 1980s. At least three of Soriano's best known novels made it to the silver screen. Soriano was shot in Paris, Rome and Buenos Aires following on the footsteps of Osvaldo Soriano into exile in the 1970s. The film is not a celebration of Soriano but rather a fair and balanced approach to his life through the voice of friends and detractors. With testimonies by Rodrigo FresánRodrigo FresánRodrigo Fresán is a fiction writer and journalist.He has published Historia argentina, Vidas de santos, Trabajos manuales, Esperanto, La velocidad de las cosas, Mantra and Jardines de Kensington and El fondo del cielo. They have been translated into many languages.Mantra, a portrait of Mexico City...
, Juan FornJuan FornJuan Forn is a writer, translator and editor.He has written four novels , a compilation of short stories and essays .-Notes:...
, Martín CaparrósMartín CaparrósMartín Caparrós is a writer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 29, 1957. His father was Antonio Caparrós, a renowned psychiatrist. Caparrós begun professional writing at age sixteen, shortly after graduating from High School at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. His first professional job in...
, Osvaldo BayerOsvaldo BayerOsvaldo Bayer is a journalist and scriptwriter. He lives in Buenos Aires, and in Linz Am Rhine, Germany, where he went into exile during the "National Reorganization Process" dictatorship ....
, Eduardo GaleanoEduardo GaleanoEduardo Hughes Galeano is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego and Las venas abiertas de América Latina which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and...
and more. Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Argentina, 1998. - El sekuestro (Spanish). (The Kidnapping) In Spanish. Fiction, Satire. With Sandra Ballesteros and Rodolfo RanniRodolfo RanniRodolfo Ranni is an Italian Argentine film actor.He has made over 85 film and TV appearances since 1958. More recently he has appeared in Argentine television dramas.-External links: ....
. Writer, Producer, Director. Argentina, 1997. The critics destroyed the film the day of its premier at the Mar del PlataMar del PlataMar del Plata is an Argentine city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata is the second largest city of Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" had apparently the sense of "sea of the Río de la Plata region" or "adjoining sea to the Río de la Plata"...
International Film Festival. However, The Kid Napping remains the director's favorite to this date. The Kid Napping was shot in the state of Florida in 1995 and, on November 4 of the same year Montes-Bradley married the leading-lady Sandra Ballesteros. The film is a political farce taking on the events that so profoundly marked Argentine society during the nineteen seventies. It has been said that the plot is an excuse to mock the struggle of the guerrilla organizations that confronted the military regime led by General Jorge Rafael VidelaJorge Rafael VidelaJorge Rafael Videla Redondo is a former senior commander in the Argentine Army who was the de facto President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. He came to power in a coup d'état that deposed Isabel Martínez de Perón...
. According to Montes-Bradley, The Kid Napping is a farce and nothing more than a farce. Many would disagree. El Sekuestro is set in an imaginary country named Rio Hondo where a band of revolutionary improvisers kidnap the wrong man, one that no one is prepared to pay a ransom for. - American Manifesto, (English). (short) Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Argentina (1993). American Manifesto premiered at the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) in 2005. It was shot in a club called Muddy's, in DenverDenver, ColoradoThe City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
, in the winter of 1993. The protagonist name is Steve, last name unknown. The film was shot on Hi-8 and is all-in-one take. Steve has just been released from jail and he is quite unhappy with America where says what prevails is a dysfunctional "shistem". The film became a cult film in internet and still can be found in several YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
-like sites. - Double Obsession, (English). Fiction. Starring Margaux HemingwayMargaux HemingwayMargaux Hemingway was an American fashion model and actress.- Early life :Margot Louise Hemingway was born in Portland, Oregon, and was the older sister of actress Mariel Hemingway and the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway...
, Beth Fisher, Scott ValentineScott ValentineScott Eugene Valentine is an American actor.-Life and career:Valentine was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, the son of Beverly Ann and Edward Eugene Valentine. He began to pursue acting one year into his college education, attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York...
Jamie Horton and Frederic ForrestFrederic Forrest-Life:Forrest was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Virginia Allie and Frederic Fenimore Forrest, a furniture store owner. He is known for his roles as Chef in Apocalypse Now, When The Legends Die, It Lives Again, the neo-Nazi surplus store owner in Falling Down, Right to Kill? and for playing...
. Co-Witter, producer, director. Edited by John Venzon. TriStar Columbia / Reivaj Films, 1992. Perhaps the sole merit of this thriller is the fact that is one of Margo Hemingway's last. Otherwise is just another B-Movie which did quite well on Television Worldwide. The film was shot on Campus at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Montes-Bradley hardly ever talks about this film written by himself in collaboration with Jeffrey Delman and Rick Marx. Note: The film was also known as Mirror Image. - SmoothTalker, (English). Fiction. Starring Lisa Weikgenant, Peter Crombi, Stuart WhitmanStuart WhitmanStuart Maxwell Whitman is an American actor.Stuart Whitman is arguably best-known for playing Marshal Jim Crown in the western television series Cimarron Strip in 1967...
and Burt WardBurt WardBurt Ward is an American television actor and activist. He is best known for his portrayal of Robin in the television series Batman and its theatrical film spin-off.-Early life:...
. Co-Writer, Prod. USA, 1992. During the shooting of SmoothTalker Montes-Bradley and Lisa Weikgenant moved-in together, first to his apartment in Los Angeles and soon thereafter to Denver, ColoradoColoradoColorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
. The relationship lasted at least four years. Lisa is also known for her stage name: Blair Parker. - Tríptico Vertical, (Short) Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. USA, 1986. Not much is known about the nearly fifteen minutes art-documentary on the Madres de Plaza de Mayo. It was shot in Buenos Aires sometime in 1984, shortly after the return to democratic rule. Music by Julio Lacarra.
- Man maste ju leva, Actor. Dir. Margareta Vinterheden. Sweden, 1978. Very little information is available on this first movie.
The great pretender
El gran simulador (The Great Pretender, 2006) is the documentary in which Montes-Bradley mocks a group piqueteros who have been manifesting on an ongoing border dispute with UruguayUruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
over the installation of a paper-mill plant property of Botnia a commercial firm based in Finland. The idea of ridiculing a "popular cause" is unusual in Argentina where documentaries are often aimed in the exact opposite direction. The Monty-Pythonesque approach to the cause of the environmentalists did more for the popularity of the filmmaker than the previous twenty years dedicated to making documentaries on writers and philosophers and alike, which resulted on an extraordinary library of more than forty titles on Latin American Culture. The media overplayed the imminent release of El gran simulador in Buenos Aires in December 2005, and film was ultimately censured by the National Institute of Cinematography (Incaa). In January 2006, Montes-Bradley and his family were forced to seek save-Heaven in neighboring Uruguay where the documentary was well received and released on January 12, 2006. In a most recent note El gran simulador was ultimately released in Argentina in April 2008, and distributed by Editorial Perfil, the opposition media conglomerate own by Jorge Fontevecchia.
Music Videos
Eduardo Montes-Bradley directed a handful of music-videos at odds with the dominant trends at a time in which MTV Latino was still in the experimental stage. Rumbera, by Willy ChirinoWilly Chirino
Willy Chirino, born April 5, 1947 in Consolación del Sur, Pinar del Río, Cuba, is an entertainer and singer in the salsa style.-Early Family Life:...
, (Sony Music, 1994 soon became a cult video-clip, not only because it was shot in one single take seven minutes long, but because of the extravaganza brought to the screen by the characters. Rumbera was shot in a South Beach
South Beach
South Beach, also nicknamed SoBe, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States. It is the area south of Indian Creek and encompasses roughly the southernmost 23 blocks of the main barrier island that separates the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay.This area was the first...
cabaret and included monkeys, transvestites, fire-eaters, a salsa-band, dancers and almost a hundred extras. Rumbera opened the doors to salsa in the regular basis in MTV Latino, until then, exclusively focused to Rock, Pop and ballads from South America. Rumbera, shot on S-16 mm, screened and compete in Havana
Havana
Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
, Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
at the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, in December 1994. That was the first time the public had the opportunity to see Willy Chirino on the Cuban screen where he remains, like Olga Guillot
Olga Guillot
Olga Guillot was a Cuban singer who was known to be the "queen of bolero". She was a native of the Cuban city of Santiago.Guillot and her family moved to Havana, Cuba when she was a small child...
, strictly blacklisted. Another interesting music-video by EM-B is Dale Pascual by "Los enanitos verdes", a Chilean pop-band. Dale Pascual was shot in 35mm in La Cava, a slum in San Isidro
San Isidro, Buenos Aires
San Isidro, Buenos Aires is a municipality in Greater Buenos Aires and one of the most affluent municipalities in Argentina. It is located in San Isidro Partido in the Buenos Aires Province....
, in the Province of Buenos Aires. The track spells out the hardships a have-not in Argentina. La Cava provided the setting typical of neo-realism
Neorealism (art)
In art, neorealism was established by the ex-Camden Town Group painters Charles Ginner and Harold Gilman at the beginning of World War I. They set out to explore the spirit of their age through the shapes and colours of daily life...
which emphasized the hard living conditions, unemployment and recession. To underline the sacrifice the director staged the crucifixion of a naked boy. The image was too much for the networks in most Latin American countries. In Chile the film was censured and MTV refused to play it across the board. Dale Pascual marked a turning point and the end of M-B's career as a music-video director.
Books
- Los dedos del huracán. Short story. Children Literature. Included on "De Ola en Ola 3" School Textbook for Third Grade. Group Macmillian. Editorial Estrada S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina. Illustrated by Eugenia Nobati. p. 62-67
In less than five hundred pages the author exposes the mechanisms used to build Cortázar: the myth, providing at the same time the tools to destroy the myth, or better yet, helping Cortázar back into his more human and transcendent dimension. Montes-Bradley had previously boarded at least two other sacred cows of the Argentine cultural aparatik: Borges and Soriano
Osvaldo Soriano
Osvaldo Soriano, Journalist and writer. Born January 6, 1943 in Mar del Plata, Argentina – died on January 29, 1997 in Buenos Aires.-Biography:...
. With Cortázar sin Barba (Cortázar without a beard) Montes-Bradkey, once again goes for one of the untouchables. Montes-Bradley approaches the pathological relationship of the author with his mother in face of an absent father. The illegitimate nature of the birth of Cortázar's mother and the clandestine relationship of his grandparents is traced in Cortázar's literary works with detectivesque obsession. "Cortázar sin barba" (Cortázar without a beard), is well documented and written in the style, no longer visible unfortunately, of many classic biographies in the English literature
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
which will tend to prove not "Who killed" the man but Who made him up. Hence, the French accent in Cortázar turns out to be no more than a dysfunctional dislalia, his father allegedly a diplomat in Belgium at the time of Cortázar's birth is no diplomat but rather a salesman working for his father-in-law who never wanted to marry granny. "No one writes biographies like this one any more" said Joaquin Marco in his review for El Cultural in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
. "Biographers no longer write like Richard Ellmann
Richard Ellmann
Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats...
and no foundations dares to finance an undertaking such as the one Montes-Bradley has chosen to write". But Montes-Bradley goes beyond the simple facts of a life tylored for a generation desperately seeking revolutionaries and literary heroes, to penetrates deeper into the fiber of the Argentine society. Montes-Bradley takes us through loyalty and betray in Argentina at the time the Spanish Civil War; Fascism at the University where Cortázar taught French Literature in the nineteen forties when Peronism came to occupy the space left vacant by the un-fatherly figure of the man who bailed living no trace behind. "Cortázar sin barba" is more than just biography, in a way it is a X-Ray to the bottom half of the 20th century in Argentina. The first edition of Cortázar sin barba was published by Sudamericana, Argentina, 2004.
- Água No Terceiro Milenio Bilingual Anthology of Short Stories. Selection of awarded works at the Literary Award "Agua no terceiro Milenio", Brazil. Published in Portuguese and Spanish. Pilar Editors, Brasilia, 2000. P. 142, 143, 144. Includes the short story "Das schwerste gewicht" previously published in "Its All a Lie" Ya se que todo es mentira, Editorial del Nuevo Extremo, Buenos Aires 1999.
- Osvaldo Soriano, un retrato. In Spanish. Grupo Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2000. In Italian by Sperling & Kupfer Editori, MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Italy, 2001, 164pp. Collection: Continente Desaparecido, directed and coordinated by Gianni Minà. Translated from Spanish by Gina Maneri. This book summons a series of interviews in connection with the documentary film on the same subject by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. The list of interviewed men and women includes the following names: Ariel DorfmanAriel DorfmanVladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.-Personal...
, Eduardo GaleanoEduardo GaleanoEduardo Hughes Galeano is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego and Las venas abiertas de América Latina which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and...
, Ana María ShuaAna María ShuaAna María Shua is an Argentine writer who has published over eighty books in numerous genres including: novels, short stories, micro fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays...
, Martín Caparrós, Giani Minnà, Mempo Giardinelli... There are also a few chapters, introduction and epilogue written by Montes-Bradley with a fare amount of footnotes and references.
- Ya sé que todo es mentira (Its All a Lie). Short Stories. In Spanish. Editorial Nuevo Extremo, Buenos Aires, 1999. Some of the short stories included in this compilation have been previously published in English in literary magazines in the US. Foreword by Osvaldo BayerOsvaldo BayerOsvaldo Bayer is a journalist and scriptwriter. He lives in Buenos Aires, and in Linz Am Rhine, Germany, where he went into exile during the "National Reorganization Process" dictatorship ....
. 199 pp.
- Senxo, Selected Poems. In Spanish. Editorial Grupo Archivo de Comunicación, New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, 1984. Foreword by Armando Tejada Gómez. Out of print.
Journalism
Eduardo Montes-Bradley has contributed with the following publications: Les cinemas de la Amerique Latine, by the Association Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse France; La Jornada, MéxicoMexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
; the monthly review Latinoamérica e Tutto il Sud dell Mondo, Italy; and in Argentina with the literary magazine Esperando a Godot; the art-magazine Revista Lote, Venado Tuerto
Venado Tuerto
Venado Tuerto is a city in the south-west of the , 322 km from the provincial capital. It has about 70,000 inhabitants .Venado Tuerto was founded on April 26, 1884 by Eduardo Casey, born in Lobos, Buenos Aires, in 1847. He was the son of two Irish immigrants who had amassed considerable wealth...
, Suplemento Radar published weekly by Página/12, El Amante de cine, "Diario Perfil", "Revista Ñ" Clarin, Critica de Argentina; and La Nación
La Nación
La Nación is an Argentine daily newspaper. The country's leading conservative paper, the centrist Clarín is its main competitor. It is the only newspaper in Argentina still published in broadsheet format.-Overview:...
. Eduardo Montes-Bradley is also a frequent collaborator with the literary blog "Nación Apache"
His interventions in the media can be classified as follows: a. In-depth articles on subjects as diverse as the life of Dean Reed
Dean Reed
Dean Cyril Reed was an American actor, singer and songwriter who lived a great part of his adult life in South America and then in communist East Germany.-Life and career:...
in the Soviet Union and the aftermath of the Battleship Potemkin; b. Sudden and brief pieces on current affairs with a particular emphasis in domestic politics in Argentina. One of Montes-Bradley's bull's eye of choice appears to be the National Institute of Cinematography (INCAA) a government institution repeatedly denounced for its high levels of corruption, its known arbitrary rules and censorship and the discretionary handling of public resources. c. Letters to the Editor. Probably the most curious form of interventionism. Montes-Bradley has written a substantial number of letters to the editors in the past becoming a regular de facto columnist in sections of newspapers and magazines otherwise reserved for the occasional reader.
In-Depth: One of the most relevant in-depth articles deals with the aftermath of Battleship Potemkin. According to the official story, as narrated by Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein , né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage"...
in his The Battleship Potemkin
The Battleship Potemkin
The Battleship Potemkin , sometimes rendered as The Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm...
,1925, the ship disappears right in front of the camera after firing twice against the city of Odessa
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
in 1905. Montes-Bradley's questions the mutiny and the nature and proportion of the bombardment of Odessa
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
as well as the whereabouts of the ship and her crew until the triumph of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The piece refutes Eisenstein's arguments bringing some lite to the years that followed the events of 1905 and to the truth behind the intentions of Eisenstein in his celebrated movie, a work-for-hire commended by the Communist Party long after the facts. The article was published in Página/12
Página/12
Página/12 is a newspaper based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Página/12 was founded on May 25, 1987, by journalist Jorge Lanata in association with writer Osvaldo Soriano and investigative journalist Horacio Verbitsky...
, on March 7, 2005. Another article worth reading is El Elvis Rojo. The Red Elvis is the story of Dean Reed
Dean Reed
Dean Cyril Reed was an American actor, singer and songwriter who lived a great part of his adult life in South America and then in communist East Germany.-Life and career:...
, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
-born country singer who became an expatriate in East Geramany in the nineteen seventies after a brief sojourn in Latin America, particularly Chile and Argentina. The story of Reed is surrounded by mystery and false assumptions. It has been said, for instance, that the red cowboy worked for the CIA, that he was a double agent, that he moved was a KGB
KGB
The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...
agent of Propaganda and that he was a womanizer playing a dangerous game that ultimately cost him his own life. The Red Elvis was published for the first time in Spanish in Página/12
Página/12
Página/12 is a newspaper based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Página/12 was founded on May 25, 1987, by journalist Jorge Lanata in association with writer Osvaldo Soriano and investigative journalist Horacio Verbitsky...
, on January 27, 2005.
Appearances in other documentaries
Montes-Bradley appeared in Margaux Hemingway from the series E! True Hollywood StoryE! True Hollywood Story
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and well-known public figures...
produced by E! Entertainment Television
As public Speaker/Panelist
- Coordinator: "Film and literature". II Seminar on Documentary Film, Gijón, Asturias, Spain. June 1999
- Coordinator: "Soriano: A Portrait" and "Harto The Borges". 1999: Hispanic Literature and Film at the End of the Millennium. Florida International University, Department of Modern Languages, November 1999.
- Coordinator: II Annual Congress on Hispanic film and Literature. Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Americana, Miami, Florida. USA. October 1999
- Panelist next to Donald Shaw y Jared Loewenstein. Screening of "Harto The Borges", fundamentals. The Latin American Studies Program, University of Virginia, November 1999
- Director of the Film Week at Casa de América: Images on Borges / Borges on Film. Casa de América, Madrid, Spain. December 1999.
- Conference: The Subject on Film: "The Documentary". Universite de Toulouse – Le Mirail, Toulouse, France. Film Department and Department of Hispanic Resources.March 2000
- Panelist: "Luis Buñuel Today". Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Americana, Miami,FL. USA. September 2000
- Conference: "Las vidas paralelas de Montes-Bradley" Critic Essay by Dr. Pilar Roca. Department of Foreign Languages.
Memberships
Montes-Bradley is a member of International Documentary AssociationInternational Documentary Association
International Documentary Association , founded in 1982, is a non-profit organization promoting documentary film, video and new media, to support the efforts of documentary filmmaking and video production makers around the world and to increase public appreciation and demand for the art of the...
(IDA), Phi Theta Kappa
Phi Theta Kappa
Phi Theta Kappa, also ΦΘΚ or sometimes PTK , is the international honor society of two-year colleges and academic programs, particularly community colleges and junior colleges. It also includes Associate's degree-granting programs offered by four-year colleges...
, The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), Sons of the American Revolution
Sons of the American Revolution
The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution is a Louisville, Kentucky-based fraternal organization in the United States...
(SAR), Association of Personal Historians, and the American Club of Buenos Aires.