Rafael Filippelli

Directing

Rafael Filippelli

Acting credits

Una actriz poster
7.0

An actress and her director are filming a movie. Through various texts ranging from monologues by Brecht and Joyce to tango songs by Libertad Lamarque, the film reflects on actors and acting in cinema.

Una actriz

1996

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Buenos Aires I

1990

Balnearios poster
6.9

An album of odd and humorous stories on small places exclusively dedicated to idleness, which are empty in winter and crowded in summer: the spa towns. Cities under water, luxury hotels, mermaids, sea animals, sand castles, people who worship water, praying for health.

Balnearios

2002

The Bottom of the Sea poster
7.0

An architecture student is obsessed by his girlfriend. When she is invited to go alone to a party sponsored by her company, he becomes paranoid. He arrives at their place unexpectedly and finds a man hidden under their bed. He follows the man trying to find his name and occupation, along a night full of incidents and misunderstandings.

The Bottom of the Sea

2003

La noche de las cámaras despiertas poster
5.3

The film tells how in 1970 a group of Argentine filmmakers - including Alberto Fischerman, Rafael Filippelli, Julio Ludueña, Miguel Bejo, Jorge Cedrón, Dody Scheuer and Luis Zanger - decided to make a short film each in one night. The occasion is perfect to describe the atmosphere of the '70s, the fever in which militants and publicists lived, the clash between art and politics. Includes fragments of the films The Players vs. Ángeles Caídos (Fischerman, 1969), Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959), Made in U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966), L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962), The Hour of the Furnaces (Pino Solanas & Octavio Getino, 1968), Tire dié (Fernando Birri, 1960), Alianza para el progreso (Ludueña, 1971), La civilización está haciendo masa y no deja oír (Ludueña, 1974) and La pieza de Franz (Fischerman, 1974).

La noche de las cámaras despiertas

2003

The Stolen Man poster
5.3

A young Argentinian woman who works as a museum guide uses her passion - reading - as a means of expression to channel the emotional and working lives of those around her.

The Stolen Man

2007

No va más poster
3.0

Isolated in his apartment, old and forgotten by almost everyone —whom, in turn, he has also forgotten— Rafael occupies the hours of his daily life with various rituals and repetitions.

No va más

2021

Behind the camera

Una actriz poster
7.0

An actress and her director are filming a movie. Through various texts ranging from monologues by Brecht and Joyce to tango songs by Libertad Lamarque, the film reflects on actors and acting in cinema.

Una actriz

1996

Retrato de Juan José Saer poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Retrato de Juan José Saer

1996

Retrato de Juan José Saer poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Retrato de Juan José Saer

1996

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El ausente

1996

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Buenos Aires I

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Buenos Aires II

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Buenos Aires III

1992

Opinaron poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Opinaron

1970

Opinaron poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Opinaron

1970

Música nocturna poster
5.0

Argentine helmer Rafael Filipelli's understated and deliberate, slice-of-life drama Night Music (AKA Musica Nocturna, 2007) unfurls over the course of four evenings, with its depiction of an emotionally-strained marriage between husband and wife Federico (Enrique Pineyro) and Cecilia (Silvia Arazi), which Filipelli sets against the backdrop of semi-vacant, nocturnal Buenos Aires. He is a music critic pushing 50 and grappling with the completion of his first book; she is a playwright, in rehearsals for a major new production. Both have hit an emotional lull in their marriage that inspires each to coolly flirt with infidelity. As Federico flirts dangerously with the theatrical director's assistant, Cecilia reconnects at length with a past acquaintance, belletrist Sergio (Horacio Acosta), who may or may not have been amorously involved with Cecilia at one time.

Música nocturna

2007

No va más poster
3.0

Isolated in his apartment, old and forgotten by almost everyone —whom, in turn, he has also forgotten— Rafael occupies the hours of his daily life with various rituals and repetitions.

No va más

2021

Esas cuatro notas poster
10.0

A film about the Argentine opera

Esas cuatro notas

2004

Esas cuatro notas poster
10.0

A film about the Argentine opera

Esas cuatro notas

2004

No artwork available
NR

Film made to commemorate the first 10 years of BAFICI. The film alternates fictional scenes of a couple of spectators in different situations at BAFICI, with interviews and testimonies of important figures in the history of the festival. The first series captures a certain spectator spirit of the festival, while the second accumulates successes, built by reading texts and with interviews with central actors of the film scene in Argentina.

La mirada febril

2008

No artwork available
NR

Film made to commemorate the first 10 years of BAFICI. The film alternates fictional scenes of a couple of spectators in different situations at BAFICI, with interviews and testimonies of important figures in the history of the festival. The first series captures a certain spectator spirit of the festival, while the second accumulates successes, built by reading texts and with interviews with central actors of the film scene in Argentina.

La mirada febril

2008

There Are Some Guys Downstairs poster
5.4

In times of dictatorship Argentina (1977), a young journalist suffers attacks of paranoia when he discovers suspicious persons , which could be paramilitaries in front of his building. Backdrop the last matches of World Cup 1978 Argentina live.

There Are Some Guys Downstairs

1985

There Are Some Guys Downstairs poster
5.4

In times of dictatorship Argentina (1977), a young journalist suffers attacks of paranoia when he discovers suspicious persons , which could be paramilitaries in front of his building. Backdrop the last matches of World Cup 1978 Argentina live.

There Are Some Guys Downstairs

1985

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Retrato de Jorge Lavelli

1994

Abduction and death poster
4.5

Argentina, the 70’s. One morning, several armed young men, dressed in military uniform, kidnap a Senior Army General and hide him in a modest cottage. There, without the hostage’s awareness of either the reason for his imprisonment or the people who planned it, the young kidnappers subject him to summary trial. In subsequent days, the military man will respond to an interrogation as severe as precise, that will lay bare the tense contradiction between two political and moral ideologies so incompatible that destruction surely awaits one of the opposite fields. The ending unveils a new chapter of a contemporary drama.

Abduction and death

2011