Sergio García Michel
Sergio Arturo García Michel (28 July 1945 – 19 September 2010) was a Mexican film director and professor, considered one of the key figures of Super 8 cinema and part of the counterculture movements of La Onda and Rupestre.
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- Name
- Sergio García Michel
- Birth Name
- Sergio Arturo García Michel
- Born
- 28 July 1945
- Birthplace
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Died
- 19 September 2010
- Occupation
- Film director, cameraman, editor
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Languages
- Spanish
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Sergio Arturo García Michel (28 July 1945 – 19 September 2010) was a Mexican film director and professor, considered one of the key figures of Super 8 cinema and part of the counterculture movements of La Onda and Rupestre.
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Sergio García Michel (1945–2010) was a film director, of Mexican nationality. The film director was born in Mexico City. Languages used include Spanish.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Sergio García Michel • Birth Name — Sergio Arturo García Michel • Born — 28 July 1945 • Birthplace — Mexico City, Mexico • Died — 19 September 2010 • Place of death — Mexico City, Mexico • Occupation — Film director, cameraman, editor • Years Active — 1966–2010 • Notable Works — El Fin 1970 Un toke de roc 1988
Early life, studies and influences
Early life, studies and influences
Born on 28 July 1945 in Mexico City, García Michel began his enthusiasm for cinema as a teenager spending entire afternoons watching films at the Tlalpan theatre. In 1966, he bought his first Super 8 camera and shot his first short film named Un dia. By 1968 and already working as a publicist he enrolled at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM, quitting a year later only to reenter in 1971 but quitting again in 1972 as he already had a professional career in film making. His influences were Richard Lester, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Kenneth Anger, Michael Wadleigh, Pino Solanas, and counterculture intellectuals like Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey.
Death
Death
On 19 September 2010, Garcia Michel was found dead in his house as a result of a heart attack.
Filmography
Filmography
• Un dia (1966) • Natasha (1968) • Y pensar que podemos... (1968) • El fin (1970) • El psiquiatra (1972) • Luto (1971) • Sinopsis (1971) • Santa Fe (1971) • Eran tres (1972) • La lucha (1972) • Ah, verdá? (1973) • Próximamente en esta sala (1973) • ¡Qué tiempos aquellos! (1973) • Campamento 2 de octubre (1976) • Hoy será mañana (1976) • Panamá, Panamá (1976) • Hacia el hombre nuevo (1976) • España: contestación al fascismo (1976) • La noche del festejo (1977) • La venida del papa (1979) • Supermán cayó en Vietnam y Tarzán en Angola (1979) • Patria Libre (1980) • Una larga experiencia (1982) • Un toke de roc (1988) • Betty Rock y el ultimo súper ocho (1989) • Rock macizo (1990) • ¿Y tú qué onda? (1990) • Un video por la paz (1991) • Jorge Reyes en el año del eclipse (1992) • Nuestro ángel de la guarda (1994) • El ángel de la paz (1995) • Rockdrigo a 10 años / ¿Por qué no me las prestas? (1996) • Ruina de utopía (2000) • Óscar Chávez en Tlayacapan (2002) • Una nena como yo no se toma a la ligera (2003) • Santa Aventurera (2006) • Superbarrio contra la delincuencia organizada (2007) • La hija de María (2007) • Be Bop A Lula Comandante espacial. Los Beatles en México (2008) • El sentido de mi vida (2008) • El cantar de los cantores (2010) • El principio del fin (2010, unfinished)
Literary works
Literary works
• Toward a fourth cinema. Published by the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas press in 1973. Re-issued by the Ohio University press in 1999.
Collections
Un Toke de Roc DVD (co-produced by the UNAM and Contraluz Cine en video, 2006) includes the aforementioned movie, La venida del papa, El fin, Ah verdá? and an in-depth interview. Superocheros. Antología del Súper 8 en México includes the Agustin's short-film Luz Externa. Garcia Michel made the restoration.
Works and awards
His better known works include: El Fin (Short film, Luis Buñuel Prize, Mexico City 1970), Ah, verdá? (Short film, awarded Best foreign film at Segundo Festival Super 8 in Canary Islands, Spain 1973), Hacia el hombre nuevo (Short film, 1st prize winner at Primer Festival Internacional de Cine Súper 8 m.m. in Cali, Colombia 1976), La Venida del Papa (Documentary about Juan Pablo II in México, 1979), Una Larga experiencia (Documentary about the band Three Souls in my Mind, 1983), ¿Por qué no me las prestas? (Documentary about Rockdrigo Gonzalez, 1995) and Un Toke de Roc: Fable in three acts (Movie, 1988). He was the founder of the Tlalpan Forum in 1980, an artistic hub in Mexico City, and professor/coordinator of film creation workshop at the Carrillo Gil Museum (1984–1999); in the School of writers from the General society of Mexican writers (1999–2002) and at the Union of Cinematographers (2002).
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Sergio García: Educación como práctica de libertad. Homo Cinéfilus.
- 2.UNAM. Un toke de roc-Entrevista a Sergio Garcia. 2005.
- 3.El cineasta independiente Sergio García Michel será recordado con retrospectiva y mucho rock. CONACULTA.
- 4.Roura, Melissa. HOMENAJE A SERGIO GARCÍA MICHEL. GASTV.
- 5.UNAM. Sergio Garcia-Biografia. Escritores del Cine Mexicano.
- 6.Hernández Chelico, Javier. Murió el domingo Sergio García Michel, cineasta de la contracultura. La Jornada. 21 September 2010.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- José Agustín Ramírez, La contracultura en México, Editorial Grijalbo, México, 1996.
- Oliver Debroise, La era de la discrepancia, UNAM, 2006.
- Rita González and Jesse Lerner, Superocheros, Wide Angle, Volume 21, No. 3. Johns Hopkins University Press, July 1999.
- Eric Zolov, Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture. University of California Press, 1999.
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