Santiago, Hugo

(Hugo Santiago Muchnik / December 12, 1939, Buenos Aires, Argentina-)

   Being settled in France since 1959, he studied literature, music, and philosophy. From 1959 to 1966, he was an assistant to Robert Bresson. He appeared in a few films (1971 Puntos suspensivos o Esperando a los Barbaros, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Brazil / Argentina; 1977 Colloque de Chiens, short, Raul Ruiz; 1983 Les Trois Couronnes du Matelot, Raul Ruiz; 1987 Résidence surveillée, Frédéric Compain). He produced Eduardo de Gregorio's Sérail / USA: Surreal State (1976).

 Filmography

        ◘ Los contrabandistas (short; Argentina)

        ◘ Los Taitas (short; also co-screenwriter; Argentina)

1969 ◘ Invasion (also co-screenwriter; Argentina)

1974 ◘ Les Autres (also co-screenwriter)

1979 ◘ Ecoute voir . . . (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1986 ◘ Les Trottoirs de Saturne / Las veredas de Sat-urno (also co-screenwriter, actor; France / Argentina)

        ◘ Electre (shot in 16-mm)

        ◘ La Geste gibeline / La Gesta gibelina (En torno a la Orestiada) (also screenwriter, dialogist; France / Argentina)

        ◘ Enumérations

        ◘ La Voix humaine

        ◘ La Fable des Continents

        ◘ La Vie de Galilée

1994 ◘ Christophe Coin, le Musicien (documentary)

1995 ◘ Maurice Blanchot (documentary; also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Mosaiques et Beethoven (documentary)

        ◘ Maria Bethânia do Brasil (documentary)

        ◘ Le Loup de la Côte Ouest / El lobo de la Costa Oeste (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; France / Portugal / Argentina)