Directing

Charlie López

Born

1999-05-13 (27)

Place of birth

Costa Rica

Known for

Directing

Credits

4 titles

Charlie López (1999) is a Costa Rican film director and moving image artist. His first fiction short film “En cada casa vacía” received the award for Best national short film at the ninth edition of the Costa Rica Festival Internacional de Cine (CRFIC) and his most recent short film, “The Swimmers", a film essay inspired by artist Ed Ruscha’s photography book “Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass”, had its international premiere at the twelfth edition of the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF). The latter film has also been selected and shown in spaces such as Le Festival International du Film sur l'Art (Le FIFA), Filmfest Dresden, Lago Film Festival, L’Alternativa B…

Known for

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about them. Inspired by Ed Ruscha's swimming pool photographs.

The Swimmers

2022

9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Morena

2019

0.5

The fictional biography of Guido Pérez Hopper, late editor and frequent collaborator of the society pages for the newspapers La Prensa Libre and La República. An exploration of social climbing and complicity between non-heterosexual men and fabulous women.