Directing
Amábilis Cordero
Born — Died
1892-03-31 — 1974-01-06
Place of birth
Duaca, Venezuela
Known for
Directing
Credits
5 titles
Amábilis Cordero (Duaca, Venezuela, March 31, 1892 - Barquisimeto, Venezuela, January 6, 1974) was a filmmaker, photographer, painter, poet, musician, screenwriter. He was a pioneer of Latin American cinema. Together with his wife Carmen de Cordero, he founded one of the first film studios in Venezuela.
Known for
7.3Amábilis Cordero featured in his film Miracles of the Divine Shepherdess (1928) the image of the death in very precarious shape of a scrawny, anonymous actor who, wrapped in a sheet and armed with a scythe, walking in sandals rooftops Barquisimeto in what could be considered one of the first and rare surreal visions of Venezuelan film. As we know, our film has preferred rather turn towards the outside; to the marginal, criminal and sociological social fact avoiding exploring spaces of dreams and imagination. In such a witty and imaginative country like Venezuela no longer curious that the film lacks the imagination to accept that truth finds its best support in the fable: that reality always full of poetry.
Los milagros de la Divina Pastora
1928
Silent film by Amábilis Cordero.
Amor y Fe a la Divina Pastora (La Pastorcita de los Cerros)
1929
NRA tragedy occurs in a school.
La tragedia de la Escuela Wohnsiedler
1933
6.2A silent religious drama from Venezuela.
The Cross of an Angel
1929
Behind the camera
7.3Amábilis Cordero featured in his film Miracles of the Divine Shepherdess (1928) the image of the death in very precarious shape of a scrawny, anonymous actor who, wrapped in a sheet and armed with a scythe, walking in sandals rooftops Barquisimeto in what could be considered one of the first and rare surreal visions of Venezuelan film. As we know, our film has preferred rather turn towards the outside; to the marginal, criminal and sociological social fact avoiding exploring spaces of dreams and imagination. In such a witty and imaginative country like Venezuela no longer curious that the film lacks the imagination to accept that truth finds its best support in the fable: that reality always full of poetry.
Los milagros de la Divina Pastora
1928
Silent film by Amábilis Cordero.
Amor y Fe a la Divina Pastora (La Pastorcita de los Cerros)
1929
Silent film by Amábilis Cordero.
Amor y Fe a la Divina Pastora (La Pastorcita de los Cerros)
1929
NRA tragedy occurs in a school.
La tragedia de la Escuela Wohnsiedler
1933
6.2A silent religious drama from Venezuela.
The Cross of an Angel
1929