Ricardo Becher
Biography
Ricardo Becher (1930â2011) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and journalist. He directed twelve films between 1955 and 2006. His 1969 film Coup de Grâce was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival. He worked as Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's assistant director on four films. During the 1970s he made a living in advertising and publicity. Since 1990 he made a career as a filmmaking teacher and he has published two novels. In 2006 he screened his last feature film in the VI BAFICI (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) where a retrospective of his films was made. He is the founder of the N.E.D Neo expresionismo digital, a way of transforming the video footage (imagen mundo) by postproduction filters in the search of its essence.
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 2010, 2h 15m ⢠as Self
The filmmaker, writer and teacher-teacher Ricardo Becher likes extreme decisions, both in his life and in his work. Now, at 80 years of age, he begins a new book called âRecta Finalâ, about his geriatric experience. Lipgot portrays the present of the filmmaker, at the same time that he reviews his history, from his first shorts and the collaboration with Torre Nilsson, passing through the fundamental "Shot of Grace" (1969) - a film that defied its time and was censored -, leading to the new movement that Becher founded with his students: digital neo-expressionism
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m ⢠as Ăl mismo en secuencia "La fiesta de los espĂritus"
An avant-garde theater troupe works through a series of unrelated episodes on en empty sound stage.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m ⢠Main Cast Role
A group of young people organizes a music festival.