Jorge Acha

Scenes from the seaside town of Miramar, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina in the early 1960s: the beach, fishermen, a football match, a motor race, teenagers having fun...

Life in a circus. As of today, this short film is considered to be lost.

Two friends find a mysterious black-cloaked figure on the beach

Short film by Jorge Acha filmed in 16mm, about two young men who share the memory of a woman.

16mm black & white with ending in colour. A fantasy about the origin of colour in the world. It was filmed at the dunes of Miramar's vivarium. The actor in the film, José Luis Leduc was disappeared years later by Videla's dictatorship. As of today, the film is listed as not available or lost.

Shows four days in the life of a man clandestinely kept in captivity. The images of his naked body alternate with those of a happy moment on a beach and with those of his captor, who spends his time looking at bodybuilding magazines.

Scenes from the seaside town of Miramar, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina in the early 1960s: the beach, fishermen, a football match, a motor race, teenagers having fun...

Life in a circus. As of today, this short film is considered to be lost.

Two friends find a mysterious black-cloaked figure on the beach

Short film by Jorge Acha filmed in 16mm, about two young men who share the memory of a woman.

16mm black & white with ending in colour. A fantasy about the origin of colour in the world. It was filmed at the dunes of Miramar's vivarium. The actor in the film, José Luis Leduc was disappeared years later by Videla's dictatorship. As of today, the film is listed as not available or lost.

Shows four days in the life of a man clandestinely kept in captivity. The images of his naked body alternate with those of a happy moment on a beach and with those of his captor, who spends his time looking at bodybuilding magazines.

Shows four days in the life of a man clandestinely kept in captivity. The images of his naked body alternate with those of a happy moment on a beach and with those of his captor, who spends his time looking at bodybuilding magazines.

A man runs through a forest with a shotgun

Short film in 16mm colour, silent. A young lady arrives in Miramar and meets a man. They visit different places. It was financed by the Tourism Commision of General Alvarado. It was musicalized with fragments from the LP "Percusión de Locura". It is currently listed as not available or lost.

A little boy walks around the seaside town of Miramar in Argentina

Five bricklayers work to construct and subsequently demolish a monument under the direction of a pseudo-architect. As they toil, the workers succumb to distractions and base desires, effectively dismantling the myths of national identity and cultural foundations.

A young man at the beach wearing a crucifix tries to put on his Argentina's national football team t-shirt but it suffocates him

Portrait of a young woman having fun at the beach

Posthumous film by Jorge Acha, whose narrative axis focuses on the journey undertaken by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimée Bonpland along with three indigenous people in the Orinoco basin and which will be told in the book by the German botanist entitled Viaje a los equinocciales del Ecuador. The male body is seen as a locus onto which social aggression is reflected and accumulated.Bodies that are virile and youthful yet tragically powerless.

A young jewish man is attacked by a group of nazis somewhere by the sea

A pair of twin brothers (or are they the same person?) lust over a woman

A young woman goes to the beach where she finds a handsome fisherman that catches her attention