Carlos Rebolledo

Directing

Carlos Rebolledo

Chuao, Venezuela

Venezuelan Critic, teacher and producer. Graduated from the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Paris, in 1962. He directed the Documentary Film Center of the University of Los Andes. Together with Jesús E. Guédez, he started the documentary movement in Venezuela, at the end of the 60s. He directed the documentary short films La casa natal del Libertador (1964), Arquitectura y urbanismo en Caracas (1965), Pozo muerto (1967), and ULA - Universidad de Los Andes / Los Andes y su Universidad (1969), the latter co-directed with Jorge Solé. Venezuela en tres tiempos (Fragmentos del antidesarrollo, 1975), made together with Edmudo Aray, is structured with clippings, still photos and interviews. It is one of his best-known works and denounces the situation in the mining areas. In 1977, together with Thaelman Urgellés, he co-directed his first feature-length fiction film: (Alias) El Rey del Joropo, a film about the famous dancer and criminal from the 1950s, Alfredo Alvarado. In 1985, he made Profession: Living, starring Rubens de Falco, Irene Arcila, Omaira Abinadé and Blanca Baldó.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Dead well poster
7.0

Dead Well (Pozo muerto, 1967) is a Venezuelan documentary directed by Carlos Rebolledo and produced by the avant-garde collective El Techo de la Ballena. Through a series of testimonies from residents of the oil towns of Cabimas and Lagunillas, the film recounts the human cost of Venezuela’s oil industry. Tracing the country's petroleum history from the 1922 Barroso II oil well blowout to the late 1960s, it exposes the exploitation, poverty, and environmental devastation endured by communities along the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo. Filmed in black-and-white on 35mm, the documentary is regarded as a landmark work of the New Latin American Cinema.

Dead well

1967

Dead well poster
7.0

Dead Well (Pozo muerto, 1967) is a Venezuelan documentary directed by Carlos Rebolledo and produced by the avant-garde collective El Techo de la Ballena. Through a series of testimonies from residents of the oil towns of Cabimas and Lagunillas, the film recounts the human cost of Venezuela’s oil industry. Tracing the country's petroleum history from the 1922 Barroso II oil well blowout to the late 1960s, it exposes the exploitation, poverty, and environmental devastation endured by communities along the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo. Filmed in black-and-white on 35mm, the documentary is regarded as a landmark work of the New Latin American Cinema.

Dead well

1967

Profesión: vivir poster
8.0

Existential confrontations are unleashed while people try to survival within a concret jungle. Such conflict gets worst when the person is near his fifties and finds himself empty-handed, without a real company, full of frustrations that hound him.

Profesión: vivir

1985

Profesión: vivir poster
8.0

Existential confrontations are unleashed while people try to survival within a concret jungle. Such conflict gets worst when the person is near his fifties and finds himself empty-handed, without a real company, full of frustrations that hound him.

Profesión: vivir

1985

Venezuela tres tiempos (Fragmentos del anti-desarrollo) poster
7.0

A motion picture of the economic and social situation in current Venezuela, through three characters affected one way or another by dependency and neocolonialism.

Venezuela tres tiempos (Fragmentos del anti-desarrollo)

1972

Venezuela tres tiempos (Fragmentos del anti-desarrollo) poster
7.0

A motion picture of the economic and social situation in current Venezuela, through three characters affected one way or another by dependency and neocolonialism.

Venezuela tres tiempos (Fragmentos del anti-desarrollo)

1972

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NR

Documentary film by Jorge Solé and Carlos Rebolledo.

Los Andes y su universidad

1969

(Alias) El Rey del Joropo poster
6.0

Alfredo Alvarado is a famous dancer and criminal from Venezuela. His horrifying adventures are narrated through a television program. It exposes the contradictions of that context. It is based on the book Los cuentos de Alfredo Alvarado “El Rey del Joropo", by Edmundo Aray.

(Alias) El Rey del Joropo

1978

(Alias) El Rey del Joropo poster
6.0

Alfredo Alvarado is a famous dancer and criminal from Venezuela. His horrifying adventures are narrated through a television program. It exposes the contradictions of that context. It is based on the book Los cuentos de Alfredo Alvarado “El Rey del Joropo", by Edmundo Aray.

(Alias) El Rey del Joropo

1978