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FILMOGRAPHY
# 00 (status: pre-production – on writing) – Utitled Proyect (2021) – third feature film
Feature film proposed by Dieter Meier with script by Charif.
# 00 (status: on production) – Something Else (2021) – fourth feature film
Experimental film, losely inspired by and idea from Orson Welles.
# 00 (on post-production) – Ophelia Moment – official music video for Chris Connelly.
# 00 (on post-production) – Last Words / Últimas palabras (2018/2019)
中 : edition, image post-production, text and direction. 5′ 05″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: Spanish / English. Note: experimental film shooted in France, in 2018, in colaboration with Alla Naumova (a.k.a. Alla En).
# 44 – The Year of Living Locked Up (2020) – second feature film
中 : script, sound, edition, special effects, image post-production, music and direction.
104 minutos. – 16:9 HD / color – languages: original in English and Luzanian, with Spanish version and few quotations in Russian, Chinese, German, French and Italian. Release dates: July 11, 2020 (worldwide original English version) and 22 July (worldwide Spanish version). please click here. to see for free the full feature film in YouTube.
# 43
Love Is a Vampire (2020)
中 : script, sound, edition, image post-production and direction.
2′ 20″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: English. Music: Doug Maxwell & Right Media Productions. Note: Inspired by scenes from The Vampire Bat (Frank R. Strayer, 1933), taken, coloured and edited by Gustavo Charif.
# 42
A Little Poem With Your Name (2020)
中 : poem, sound, edition, image post-producción and direction.
1′ 50″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: English. Music composed by Erik Satie and performed at piano by Wahneta Meixsell. Please click here to read the original English poem.
# 41
La advertencia (2020)
中 : script, sound, edition, image post-producción and direction.
2′ 03″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: Luzanian with Spanish subtitles. To see in YouTube, please click here.
# 40
Explanation of a Nightmare (2020)
中 : script, music (piano and composition), sound, edition, image post-production.
1′ 33″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: English.
# 39
Testament (2020)
中 : script, sound, edition, image post-production and direction.
1′ 53″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: Luzanian and English. Please click here to see.
# 38
Casita robada (2019) – serie para YouTube.
中 : editión, image post-producción, special effects, music, script an directión.
Runtime about 12 to 15 minutes each episode – 16:9 HD / color – language: luzanian with Spanish subtitles. Playlist here with complete episodes (in Spanish).
# 37
Voices in the Labyrinth / Voces en el laberinto (2019) – Visual Virus # 7
中 : script, sound, edition, special effects, image post-production and direction.
6′ 40″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: English / Spanish.
# 36
Threesome (2019)
中 : guión, sonido, edición, post-producción de imagen y dirección.
0′ 42″ – 16:9 HD / color – idioma: inglés.
# 35
La exhibición analógital / The Analogital Exhibition (2019)
中 : script, music, sound, edition, special effects, image post-production and direction.
9′ 36″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: Luzanian, Spanish, English (few words) and Chinese (few words). To see in YouTube (Spanish subtitles), please click here.
Analogital artworks (technical specifications and images) here.
# 34
Micro-Filosofía (Micro-Philosophy, 2019) – serire para YouTube
中 : script, sound, edition, special effects, image post-production and direction.
Runtime about 2 to 10 minutes each episode – 16:9 HD / color – language: Luzanian with Spanish subtitles. Playlist here with complete episodes (in Spanish).
# 33
Gente iluminada (Enlightened People, 2019)
中 : script, sound, edition, colour process, digital process, speciales effects, image post-producción and direction.
10′ 55″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: Spanish, German (quotation), English (quotation), Latin (few words).
# 32
Missing Scene, Missing Life (2018) – Visual Virus # 6
中 : script, sound, edition, special effect, image post-productión and direction.
2′ 20″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: English, Japanese and Luzanian.
To see in YouTube, please click here.
# 31
Ophelia Moment – Demo Version (2018) – official music video
中 : edition, image post-producción and direction.
6′ 08″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: English.
Chris Connelly: music (composer and performer) and lyrics.
Yi-ying Lai: model and second camera operator.
Yuhao Huang: second camera operator.
To see in YouTube, please click here.
# 30
Informe Irenäus (2018) – YouTube series
中: edition, image post-production, special effects, music (in some episodes), script and direction.
Runtime about 8 to 12 minutes each episode – 16:9 HD / color – language: blajtinubrii with Spanish subtitles. Playlist aquí with complete episodes (in Spanish).
# 29
Enlightenment (2017) – Visual Virus # 5
中 : script, sound edition image post-production and direction.
3′ 39″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: Luzanian, English and Persian.
To see the original English version, please click here.
Ver en YouTube con subtítulos en castellano aquí.
# 28
Are They Cannibals? (2016-2017) – official video – Visual Virus # 4
中 : script, sound, edition, image post-production and direction.
Music: DIMESLAND (Official Facebook here). 3′ 39″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: English.
To see in YouTube, please click here.
# 27
我聽到的聲音 (I Hear Voices, 2016)
中 : edition-in-camera and ambient sound-in-camera, direction.
0′ 43″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: Chinese. Note: Made in a one continuous shot with an old and cheap cell phone in a Taipei suburban street.
To see in YouTube, please click here.
# 26
Intolerance (or Best places in the world are places where human left no traces) (2014) – Visual Virus # 3
中 : script, sound, image post-production, colour process, music (composition and piano) and composición) and direction
3′ 39″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: English.
# 25
Waiting for Dogot (2014) – Visual Virus # 2
中 : script, sound, edition, special effects and direction.
2′ 23″ – 16:9 HD / color – language: English and Chinese.
To see in YouTube, please click here.
# 24
一九八四 (2014) – English title: 1984 – Visual Virus # 1
中 : script, sound, edition, special effects and direction.
3′ 39″ – 16:9 HD / color – Languages: Chinese and Einglish.
To see in YouTube, please click here.
#23
La razón (The Reason, 2007/2010) – first feature film
中 : script (in colaboration with Andrés Onna), image and sound post-production (with the colaboration of Martín Ramírez), music (as Victorio Lenz), texts, direction and final cut.
70 minutos – format 1.78:1 / (anamorphic) / color. Release date: October 6, 2010, at Gaumont cinema (Buenos Aires), during the Festival de Cine Inusual.
Note I: The last secuence ncludes an unreleased song composed and performed by Moby, who generously granted the rights to Charif.
Note II: In spite of the film get the Special Prize to the Technical Realization, and the Prize to the Best Cinematographer in the Festival de Cine Inusual de Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010), and in spite to be special invited to the International Film Festival of Mar del Plata (2011), after a good reception the film was retired by Charif himself because, on his view, it is “just a study, not really a good feature film, and with too much flaws which embarass me”. Anyway, by circumstances which will be explained in due course, The Reason will be available on-line in a kind of aniversary edition on October 2020.
IMDb data sheet here.
Full data sheet and a some stills here.
Teaser available in YouTube here.
Trailer available in YouTube here.
Taglines: “Sin violencia. Sin erotismo. Sin suspenso. Sin sangre. Sin romance. Sin acción. La razón: una película que no busca entretener, ni divertir, ni distraer.” (Without violence. Without erotism. Without suspense. Without blood. Without romance. Without no action. The Reason: a film that no seek entertain or amuse you.)
# 22
No Distraction (2008)
中 : direction, idea, script, sound, music (as Victorio Lenz) and edition.
3′ 45″ – 16:9 HD / color. Dated in 27 and 28 July, 2008. Note: Found-footage film, based on historical files and educational filmsin public domain, coloured and digitally altered with diverse techniques. To see in YouTube please click here.
# 21
La Argentina (The Argentine Republic, 2008)
中 : direction, idea, script, sound and edition.
6′ 16″ – format 1.78:1 – anamorphic (35 mm prints) – color / black and white. Date: 10 June, 2008. Note: Found-footage film, based on historical files and educational filmsin public domain, coloured and digitally altered with diverse techniques. To see in YouTube please click here.
# 20
Final Feliz (Happy End, 2008)
中 : original music (as Victorio Lenz), co-edition and co-direction.
1′ 06″ – 16:9 HD (color) and 35 mm found-footage (black and white). Date: 11 January, 2008. Note: Experimental film made in collaboration with Martín Ramírez. To see in YouTube please click here.
# 19
L’enchaînée (Shackled Girl, 2000)
中 : direction, edition, script and camera.
3′ 53″ – 16 mm / color – languages: German / French. Private release in Berlin (no date). Cast: Marielle Tsarine (Crazy Horse’s Girl), Vanina Serra (fille enchainée).
# 18
La agitada vida de Florencia Parodi (The Hectic Life of Florencia Parodi, 1998)
中 : direction, edition-in-camera, intervention on the fílmstrip, colour process and final cut.
3′ 23″ – Super 8 / color – language: Spanish. Released dates: Centro de Teoría de la Imagen (Buenos Aires), November 22, 1998. Note: Experimental film for children, made with an abstract style, painting and scraping off on the whole filmstrip.
# 17
El primer paisaje de un hombre (The First Landscape of a Man, 1997)
中 : original music (as Valentino Gray), direction, edition-in-camera, art, script, sound, intervention on the fílmstrip, colour process and final cut.
3′ 57″ – Super 8 / color – language: English. Released dates: Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires), October 25, 1997. Note: Experimental adult film made with a new animation technique (tested for a few seconds on Natural Baroque -#16-). This technique consists in a series of micro-collages, converted in transparent and adhered over the filmstrip. The result is an abstract film, maintaining the explicit or pornographic side in the audio, thus spectators can complete the images with their minds.
# 16
Barroco natural: el nuevo éxito de la industria del cine (Natural Baroque: the new success of film industry, 1997)
中 : original music (as “Valentino Gray”), direction, edition, art, sound, intervention on the fílmstrip, colou process and final cut.
6′ 16″ – Super 8 / color. Release dates: Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art (October 25, 1997). Tv premiere (worldwide): Film&Arts-Bravo channel (February 20, 1998). Film theater: Cine Atlas Recoleta, Buenos Aires (May, 1998).
Note: Experimental film made with a miniaturist procedure applying, frame by frame, a number of new techniques on the filmstrip. This is, perhaps, the first film where paper is used on the celluloid (at around minute 5).
To see Barroco Natural in YouTube, please click here.
A few frames from Barroco Natural (1997)
# 15
Rap (1987/1989)
中 : direction, edition, art, sound, intervention on the fílmstrip, colour process and final cut.
4′ 11″ – Super 8 / color – language: Spanish. Release dates: National Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires), October 25, 1997. Note: Experimental re-edition with interventions on the filmstrip in diverse ways (scratches, inks, etc.), on different copies of Rap de las hormigas (# 3), changing completely the soundtrack.
# 14
Quiero lo que no sé (I want that I don’t know, 1987/1997)
中 : direction, edition, script, art, sound, intervention on the fílmstrip, colour process and final cut.
4′ 55″ – Super 8 / color – language: French. Release dates: National Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires), October 25, 1997. Note: Re-edition of I want (now) (# 2), changing the soundtrack and intervening on the filmstrip with inks, scratches, strokes and so on.
# 13
Those images that yet fresh images beget (1989/1997)
中 : direction, edition, script, sound, intervention on fílmstrip and final cut.
2′ 02″ – Super 8 / color – language: English. Release dates: National Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires), October 25, 1997. Note: Based in images shooted by Néstor Klem and inspired by the final verses of Byzantium, from William Butler Yeats: “Those images that yet / Fresh images beget, / That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea”. Soundtrack: fragment of Rabbits Dying, by Throwing Gristle.
# 12
Acústico. La telenovela de hoy (Unplugged: the Soap Opera of Today, 1997)
中 : dirección, montaje, guión, sonido, animación, intervención sobre el soporte fílmico y coloreado final.
44 seconds – Super 8 / color – language: Spanish. Release dates: National Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires), October 25, 1997. Note: Based in images shooted by Pablo Cristofanetti in his childhood.
# 11
Así como el tiempo trabaja sobre las rocas, la electricidad (As well as time works on rocks, the electricity, 1989/1997)
中 : direction, edition, script, sound, intervention on fílmstrip and final cut.
2′ 06″ – Super 8 / color – languages: Spanish / Japanese. Release dates: National Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires), October 25, 1997.
# 10
La muerte (The Death, 1988/1997)
中 : direction, script, edition and final cut.
1 minute – Super 8 / color – silent film without actors. Release dates: Centro de Teoría de la Imagen (Buenos Aires), July, 1998. Note: Based in images shooted by Néstor Klem.
# 9
No miro el suelo, miro lo que hay en él (I don’t look the soil, I am looking what there are in it, 1987/1997)
中 : direction, script, edition, sound, intervention on fílmstrip and final cut.
2′ 43″ – Super 8 and Single 8 / color – language: Spanish. Release dates: National Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires), October 25, 1997. Note: Based in images shooted by Pablo Cristofanetti in his childhood.
# 8
¡Formidable! (Formidable!, 1999)
中 : co-direction, camera, edition-in-camera, imáges, sound, intervention on fílmstrip and script.
3′ 53″ – Super 8 / color – language: Spanish. Release dates: Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires), 1989. Note: Co-directed with Pablo Cristofanetti and Néstor Klem.
# 7
Gomorrita (Gomorrite, 1989)
中 : co-direction, camera, art, sound, intervention on fílmstrip and animation.
44 minutes – Super 8 and Single 8 / color – language: Spanish. Release dates: Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires), 1989. Note: Experimental documentary, with large traits of comedy, co-directed with Pablo Cristofanetti and Néstor Klem.
# 6
Sono come tu mi vuoi (I am as you want me, 1989)
中 : direction, edition, script, art, sound, intervention on filmstrip and animation.
2′ 03″ – Super 8 / color – language: Italian. Release dates: Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires), 1989.
# 5
Sacred Chewing Gum (1987/1989)
中 : direction, edition-in-camera, script, art, sound and animation.
1′ 30″ – Super 8 / color – language: Spanish. Release dates: Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires), 1989.
Some frames from Sacred Chewing Gum
Note: This film was made just in one day and edited in camera (41 scenes alternating different animation techniques with the actor’s performance). The original idea was conceived on 1987 to be performed by Luca Prodan (who died in the same year). The role was finally performed by Tom Lupo.
# 4
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night, 1987/1988)
中 : direction, edition, script, art, sound, intervention on fílmstrip and animation.
4′ 29″ – Super 8 / color – languages: German / English / Spanish / French. Release dates: 1988. Release dates on TV (censored version): 1988 Note: Based on a version of Noche de paz (Silent Night) by Sumo.
Charif as a psychedelic Christ and Verónica Capasso as St. Veronica in Verklärte Nacht
# 3
Rap de las hormigas (Ants Rap, 1987/1988)
中 : co-direction, script, art, sound, intervention on filmstrip and animation.
3′ 33″ – Super 8 / color – language: Spanish. Release dates on TV: 1988. Co-directors: Pablo Cristofanetti and Néstor Klem. Note: Music video for a Charly García track Rap de las hormigas.
# 2
I want (now) (1987)
中 : direction, animation, intervention on filmstrip, art direction and sound.
2′ 26″ – Super 8 / color – language: Spanish. Release dates: 1988. Note: Script based in an idea from Luca Prodan.
# 1
Cabeza de Fierro (Iron Head, circa 1972)
中 : direction, micro-paintings and adaptation.
At the age of five, his parents present him with a toy projector Cine Graf, and he paints an extensive strip of film paper to adapt a book called Cabeza de fierro (Iron Head).
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