Rolando Peña

Acting

Rolando Peña

Born 1942-10-27 · Venezuela

Rolando Peña is a Venezuelan artist born in 1942. He is one of the pioneers of the 60s Latin-American underground scene and is a main figure of the Venezuelan contemporary art. He was nicknamed the “black prince” and has been involved in theatre, dance, and fine arts since 1958. He created many happenings, projects of expansive cinema, multimedia and performances projects between Caracas and New York since 1964.

Acting credits

Puros hombres poster
7.0

During the dictatorial regime of Juan Vicente Gómez, the bachelor Ibarra is imprisoned for political conspiracy. In prison, the inmates live together remembering the events that led to their imprisonment. Finally, a group, led by the bachelor Ibarra, manages to carry out a plan to escape from the prison.

Puros hombres

1977

El disco rojo poster
NR

"El Disco Rojo" under the leadership of Amador del Villar and with the participation of actress Eva Moreno

El disco rojo

1964

Orinoko, New World poster
5.4

The Orinoko: main character in the film. The first part is set during the pre-conquest and is represented as an earthly paradise. A shaman has precognitive visions: go to Columbus and the Catholic missionary in 1498.

Orinoko, New World

1984

Todos los días son sábados poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Todos los días son sábados

1977

The Stone Age poster
NR

"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante

The Stone Age

1970

Dialogue with Che poster
5.0

In 1967, José Rodriguez Soltero made “Dialogue with Che” (1968), starring Venezuelan artist, actor, producer and dancer Rolando Peña as Che. Warhol superstar Taylor Mead is also featured, in the role of a CIA agent. “The film was partly underwritten by Andy Warhol, who gave a check to cover lab fees. "Dialogue..." was seldom shown in the States - it is entirely in Spanish - but had some life in the European screens. It had a modest run at the Cinémathèque Française, where it was championed by Marie Meerson and Henri Langlois, and played at the Berlin Film Festival in 1969. Historically, it has been shown with two prints projected side by side, the second screen starting with a 3-minute delay. --Film-Makers Coop

Dialogue with Che

1968

Four Stars poster
4.7

Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute reels) only once, at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in New York City. The imagery in the film is dense, wearying and beautiful, but ultimately hard to decipher, for, in contrast to his earlier, and more famous film Chelsea Girls, made in 1966, Warhol insisted that two reels be screened simultaneously on top of each other on a single screen, rather than side-by-side. The film's title is a pun on the rating system used by critics to rank films, with "four stars" being the highest rating. From Wikipedia.

Four Stars

1967

La Cotorra I poster
NR

Film by Rolando Peña, with Rolando Peña and Iván Loscher.

La Cotorra I

1976

La Cotorra II poster
NR

A conversation between Rolando Peña and Iván Loscher during the construction of the Caracas subway. "La Cotorra No. 2" is a very personal, humorous rehearsal of the current communications of our societies as well as ours.

La Cotorra II

1979

The Discovery of America poster
10.0

Film dedicated to the American artist Andy Warhol.

The Discovery of America

1970

Hommage to Nicanor Parra poster
NR

An intimate portrait of the South American poet Nicanor Parra, reading his poetry and talking with friends. Made during Parra's visit to the YMHA Poetry Center in New York. "... a series of punches to the solar plexus – physical, moral, audio and visual – of the audience." - The Sunday Magazine, Santiago, Chile.

Hommage to Nicanor Parra

1968

Cabrujas en el país del disimulo poster
NR

Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects of the most important venezuelan writer of the 60s, 70s and 80s: José Ignacio Cabrujas.

Cabrujas en el país del disimulo

2017

The Nude Restaurant poster
6.5

At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string and a G-bestringed waiter.

The Nude Restaurant

1967

Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria poster
7.0

In Secretaries Day, either you get laid or you get paid.

Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria

1984

The Loves of Ondine poster
3.7

Ondine is a gay man attempting to re-adjust his sexuality via various encounters with different women. After trying his luck with three women, Ondine becomes a background character in a sequence in which a group of Latin American men, calling themselves The Bananas, engage in a food fight. Ondine then engages in a wrestling match with Joe Dallesandro, who is married to Brigid Berlin.

The Loves of Ondine

1968

Tales for Grown Ups poster
8.0

This anthology film consists of three parts: "Story One: The story of the brave man", "Story Two: Angels Rhythm" and "Story Three: The false office of supernumerary". The first story tells of a man desperate to get money to cure the illness of his daughter. The second story tells the adventures of a gang of youths; and finally, the third story tells of corruption in Congress.

Tales for Grown Ups

1963

Behind the camera