Eliseo Subiela in Life and Cinema

Nancy J. Membrez is a professor of Spanish literature, culture, and Spanish and Latin American cinemas, as well as film production, at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She wrote the English subtitles for four Subiela films and produced three featurettes for the Kino Lorber DVD/Blu-ray of Man Facing Southeast. Her own film Portrait in Sepia Tone won Best Picture and Best Soundtrack at the International Filmmakers’ Film Festival in Kent, England, in 2008. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Foreword: The Art of Eliseo Subiela: Chronotopes of Desire by Ksenija Bilbija

Introduction

Part One—The Persistence of Vision

1. Synthesis of a Life

2. The Persistence of Vision: Subiela’s Advertising Career

3. Fifty Years of Madness: From A Long Silence (1963) to Man Facing Southeast (1987) to Vanishing Landscapes (2013)

4. Subiela, Godard and a Host of Others: A Notebook

5. The Second Self Motif in the Films of Eliseo Subiela

6. Subiela and the Critics

7. Tilting at Windmills in Latin American Cinema

Part Two—Subiela, the Literary and the Personal

8. Subiela and Cortázar: A Shared Antenna

9. A Bent Antenna: The Conundrum of ­K-PAX

10. Collaborating with Eliseo Subiela, My Friend and Mentor

Part Three—Interviews

11. An Interview with Marcela Sáenz, Film Editor (2012)

12. An Interview with Ricardo De Angelis, Director of Photography and Colorist (2012)

13. An Interview with Eliseo Subiela (2000)

14. An Interview with Eliseo Subiela (2015)

15. The Last Interview: Eliseo Subiela Talks About Man Facing Southeast (2016)

Appendix 1: Subiela’s Filmography

Appendix 2: Subiela’s Film Prizes and Honors, in Chronological Order

Appendix 3: An Open Letter to President Raúl Alfonsín (1987) by Eliseo Subiela

Appendix 4: Dogma 95 is Cinema Sabotage (1999) by Eliseo Subiela

Appendix 5: Luis Buñuel’s Final Scene (2010) by Eliseo Subiela

Chapter Notes

A Bibliography of Subiela’s Interviews, Writings and Films

Index