
Directing
Sergio Bravo
Born — Died
1927-05-13 — 2023-09-06
Place of birth
Los Andes, Valparaíso, Chile
Known for
Directing
Credits
16 titles
Sergio Bravo Ramos (Los Andes, May 13, 1927) was a Chilean documentary filmmaker and film and photography director. He studied architecture at the University of Chile between 1952 and 1956, and then film studies at the Film Institute of the Catholic University. In 1955 he became a founding member of the Cine Club Universitario de la Federación de Estudiantes de Chile. On July 8, 1957 he founded, along with filmmaker Pedro Chaskel, among others, the Experimental Film Center of the University of Chile, of which he was also the first director. His first documentary short film Imágenes Antárticas was made in 1956. The following year, in 1957, he published Mimbre, which featured the music of Vi…
Known for
Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Salvador Allende in 1970.
What Is to Be Done?
1972
NRMontage documentary, built on footage taken during an expedition with the participation of writer Enrique Zorrilla, photographer Roberto Montandón and Leopoldo Castedo. Synthesis of a journey of one hundred thousand kilometers between Mexico and Tierra del Fuego around the heritage of the native peoples of Latin America.
Amerindia
1960
Experimental montage based on the filming of an essay by Pablo Neruda, while he recites a verse of the "ode to the simple man".
Ese desconocido
1960
A survey documentary filmed in the wheat fields of the community of Calquinhue, near the town of Hualqui, in the province of Concepción. The film shows the gestures in the various tasks of the community members engaged in harvesting the wheat, from the harvest to the sale.
Trilla
1959
Shows the visual impressions aroused when entering the workshop of a wicker craftsman known as 'Manzanito' in the late 50's Santiago, Chile.
Mimbre
1958
Detailed record of the operative technique used by Professor Dr. Alfonso Asenjo to perform surgery on a patient with Parkinson's disease at the Hospital de Neurocirugía de Santiago.
Parkinsonismo y cirugía
1962
Film credits
Behind the camera
NRMontage documentary, built on footage taken during an expedition with the participation of writer Enrique Zorrilla, photographer Roberto Montandón and Leopoldo Castedo. Synthesis of a journey of one hundred thousand kilometers between Mexico and Tierra del Fuego around the heritage of the native peoples of Latin America.
Amerindia
1960
Experimental montage based on the filming of an essay by Pablo Neruda, while he recites a verse of the "ode to the simple man".
Ese desconocido
1960
A survey documentary filmed in the wheat fields of the community of Calquinhue, near the town of Hualqui, in the province of Concepción. The film shows the gestures in the various tasks of the community members engaged in harvesting the wheat, from the harvest to the sale.
Trilla
1959
Shows the visual impressions aroused when entering the workshop of a wicker craftsman known as 'Manzanito' in the late 50's Santiago, Chile.
Mimbre
1958
Shows the visual impressions aroused when entering the workshop of a wicker craftsman known as 'Manzanito' in the late 50's Santiago, Chile.
Mimbre
1958
Detailed record of the operative technique used by Professor Dr. Alfonso Asenjo to perform surgery on a patient with Parkinson's disease at the Hospital de Neurocirugía de Santiago.
Parkinsonismo y cirugía
1962
NRThe different works and routines typical from the lands near the canal of Larmahuino (or Almahuino).
Láminas de Almahue
1962
A day in the life of an 'organillero' as he plays his music in the streets of a Chilean city.
Day of the Organ Grinders
1961
A day in the life of an 'organillero' as he plays his music in the streets of a Chilean city.
Day of the Organ Grinders
1961
NRTwo women tell each other about their sorrowful lives, sailing in a boat that returns from the party of Jesus on Caguach Island.
They Were Nobody
1982
NRTwo women tell each other about their sorrowful lives, sailing in a boat that returns from the party of Jesus on Caguach Island.
They Were Nobody
1982
A documentary montage produced for the Popular Action Front's campaign in support of Salvador Allende's candidacy for President of the Republic.
Las banderas del pueblo
1964
A documentary record of the construction of the Lorenzo Arenas Market, an iconic building and architectural landmark from the mid-20th century located in the city of Concepción, Chile. Designed in 1959 by the renowned architects Osvaldo Cáceres and Gabriela González.
Mercado Lorenzo Arenas
1959
Record of the landscapes of the Antarctic continent and of the scientific activities carried out there in mission of the executive committee for the International Geophysical Year.
Imágenes Antárticas
1958

