Jesús Enrique Guédez

Directing

Jesús Enrique Guédez

Born 1930-09-08 · Puerto Nutrias, Venezuela

Jesús Enrique Guédez was a Venezuelan poet and filmmaker. Guédez was a pioneer in documentary film in Venezuela.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Panamá poster
8.0

Documentary on the Panamanian struggle for the rescue of the lands of the so-called Canal Zone, militarily occupied by the forces of the American army.

Panamá

1976

Bárbaro Rivas poster
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Evocation of the human presence and art of the painter Bárbaro Rivas.

Bárbaro Rivas

1967

Orlando Araujo poster
NR

Documentary about Venezuelan writer and intellectual Orlando Araujo.

Orlando Araujo

1992

Orlando Araujo poster
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Documentary about Venezuelan writer and intellectual Orlando Araujo.

Orlando Araujo

1992

Campoma poster
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Short that tells the history of Campoma, a small Venezuelan town founded by black slaves.

Campoma

1976

No artwork available
NR

Documentary by Jesús Enrique Guédez.

Gastroenteritis

1965

La ciudad que nos ve poster
NR

Life in the slums of Caracas: misery, violence, unemployment, strength, vitality.

La ciudad que nos ve

1966

La ciudad que nos ve poster
NR

Life in the slums of Caracas: misery, violence, unemployment, strength, vitality.

La ciudad que nos ve

1966

No artwork available
NR

Documentary by Jesús Enrique Guédez about Marc de Civrieux.

Carta ilustrada a Marc de Civrieux

1999

Testimonio de un obrero petrolero poster
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Through the testimony of Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of labor organizing in Venezuela’s oil fields, this documentary revisits the experiences of oil workers between 1920 and 1936. Their memories reveal a world marked by corporal punishment, exploitation, racial segregation, and disease, alongside the emergence of collective resistance against the American and British oil companies that controlled the industry and the government that enabled them.

Testimonio de un obrero petrolero

1978

Testimonio de un obrero petrolero poster
NR

Through the testimony of Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of labor organizing in Venezuela’s oil fields, this documentary revisits the experiences of oil workers between 1920 and 1936. Their memories reveal a world marked by corporal punishment, exploitation, racial segregation, and disease, alongside the emergence of collective resistance against the American and British oil companies that controlled the industry and the government that enabled them.

Testimonio de un obrero petrolero

1978

Testimonio de un obrero petrolero poster
NR

Through the testimony of Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of labor organizing in Venezuela’s oil fields, this documentary revisits the experiences of oil workers between 1920 and 1936. Their memories reveal a world marked by corporal punishment, exploitation, racial segregation, and disease, alongside the emergence of collective resistance against the American and British oil companies that controlled the industry and the government that enabled them.

Testimonio de un obrero petrolero

1978

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about Venezuelan sculptor Daniel Herrera.

Daniel Herrera y la humanidad pichona

1992

Juan Sánchez Peláez o la amistad de los poetas poster
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Documentary about Venezuelan poet Juan Sánchez Peláez.

Juan Sánchez Peláez o la amistad de los poetas

2004

Juan Sánchez Peláez o la amistad de los poetas poster
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Documentary about Venezuelan poet Juan Sánchez Peláez.

Juan Sánchez Peláez o la amistad de los poetas

2004

El circo mágico poster
NR

A young man visits the grave of his lover.

El circo mágico

1975

No artwork available
NR

Documentary by Jesús Enrique Guédez.

Juego al general

1971

No artwork available
NR

An interview to the Venezuelan writer José León Tapia.

José León Tapia

2000

Donde no llega el médico poster
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Short film by Jesús Enrique Guédez.

Donde no llega el médico

1965

La universidad vota en contra poster
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Demonstrations, confrontations, parties and divisions marked one of the most important university campaigns of the decade: the 1968 student elections.

La universidad vota en contra

1968

La universidad vota en contra poster
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Demonstrations, confrontations, parties and divisions marked one of the most important university campaigns of the decade: the 1968 student elections.

La universidad vota en contra

1968

Miguel Ramón Utrera poster
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Documentary about the poet Miguel Ramón Utrera.

Miguel Ramón Utrera

1991

No artwork available
NR

Documentary by Jesús Enrique Guédez.

Luis Luksic, la flor del ensueño

1990

No artwork available
NR

Documentary by Jesús Enrique Guédez.

Los niños callan

1971