
Directing
Alberto Gieco
Place of birth
Santa Clara de Buena Vista, Santa Fe, Argentina
Known for
Directing
Credits
22 titles
Alberto Gieco (1952) is an audiovisual filmmaker and theater artist born in Santa Clara de Buena Vista, Santa Fe province. In 1980s São Paulo, he directed the cult film *Punks*, which portrays the punk subculture on the city's outskirts. He has worked as a continuity supervisor and assistant director on more than 30 feature films. Between 2008 and 2013, he was a member of the artist collective Circo de Poesía in Los Angeles. Additionally, he has taught film and literature at Los Angeles institutions such as the University of California, Occidental College, and Cortines Visual and Performing Arts. In 2025, he premiered *El infierno de los vivos*, his first feature film as a director.
Known for
A young man fantasizes about a woman in a field.
Deseo
1975
NRMariana, 15, escapes the violence of her home in Santa Fe. She embarks on a search for her biological father and takes refuge in an orphanage where she finds affection from a distant relative. On his journey through the interior of the province, he discovers its inner strength.
El infierno de los vivos
2025
9.0Documentary about punks of the city of São Paulo and its difficulties, struggles and ideals, the importance of music in the universe of its ideology, interviews and images of shows of some musical groups like Ratos de Porão, Inocentes and Fogo Cruzado.
Punks de São Paulo
1984
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Chá
1987
8.0In 1986 LA, an illegal immigrant (Elpidia Carrillo) suffers from past tortures in her native El Salvador. Her husband had been killed and her two children taken from her. She was an educated teacher with a philosophy degree, but now is forced to take only the most menial tasks and lives in a roach-infested dwelling. This fragile woman is turned over to a case worker (Barbara Williams), who is recently divorced and is struggling as a single mother to her young son. These two very different women make contact and the therapist decides to help the Latin American find her children. Inquiries leads to the children being in Mexico and with a high enough fee, they can be smuggled into the US.
They Come at Night
1998
A couple and their daughters try to maintain a semblance of normalcy despite the threats and fears during Argentina's civic-military dictatorship.
En los extremos de la noche
1976
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
6.0Renata seeks refuge in the house of Virginia, her sister. Virginia lives a quiet life with her son Lucio in a provincial city and the only thing that seems to worry her are the ants that have invaded her home. Renata has nowhere to go. Virginia wants to help her and receives her; But the days pass and the drama of daily life begins to reveal the link between them, the pain of recognizing and rediscovering each other in a past that returns and takes strange forms.
The Ant Woman
2024
No synopsis available yet.
La frontera del deseo
2024
Behind the camera
A young man fantasizes about a woman in a field.
Deseo
1975
A young man fantasizes about a woman in a field.
Deseo
1975
NRMariana, 15, escapes the violence of her home in Santa Fe. She embarks on a search for her biological father and takes refuge in an orphanage where she finds affection from a distant relative. On his journey through the interior of the province, he discovers its inner strength.
El infierno de los vivos
2025
NRMariana, 15, escapes the violence of her home in Santa Fe. She embarks on a search for her biological father and takes refuge in an orphanage where she finds affection from a distant relative. On his journey through the interior of the province, he discovers its inner strength.
El infierno de los vivos
2025
9.0Documentary about punks of the city of São Paulo and its difficulties, struggles and ideals, the importance of music in the universe of its ideology, interviews and images of shows of some musical groups like Ratos de Porão, Inocentes and Fogo Cruzado.
Punks de São Paulo
1984
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Chá
1987
A couple and their daughters try to maintain a semblance of normalcy despite the threats and fears during Argentina's civic-military dictatorship.
En los extremos de la noche
1976
A couple and their daughters try to maintain a semblance of normalcy despite the threats and fears during Argentina's civic-military dictatorship.
En los extremos de la noche
1976
NRA documentary produced entirely at the El Birri Cultural and Social Center and which continues the legacy of filmmaker Fernando Birri.
Un carnaval llamado resistencia
2025
NRA documentary produced entirely at the El Birri Cultural and Social Center and which continues the legacy of filmmaker Fernando Birri.
Un carnaval llamado resistencia
2025
NRA documentary produced entirely at the El Birri Cultural and Social Center and which continues the legacy of filmmaker Fernando Birri.
Un carnaval llamado resistencia
2025
Experiments based on a woman dissociated from reality.
A nuestros silencios I
1979
Experiments based on a woman dissociated from reality.
A nuestros silencios I
1979
Experiments based on a woman dissociated from reality.
A nuestros silencios II
1979
Experiments based on a woman dissociated from reality.
A nuestros silencios II
1979
No synopsis available yet.
La frontera del deseo
2024
No synopsis available yet.
La frontera del deseo
2024
No synopsis available yet.
La frontera del deseo
2024

