Jorge Vignati
Biography
Jorge Vignati Ojeda (Cusco, May 11, 1940 – Lima, March 8, 2017) was a Peruvian director of photography, cameraman, and filmmaker. He worked on over 80 films and collaborated with directors such as Werner Herzog, Dennis Hopper, Pino Solanas, Jorge Sanjinés, and Dino De Laurentiis. With Herzog, he worked on several documentaries, including serving as assistant director on Fitzcarraldo.
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Self
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Self
In the remote Andean highlands of Peru, a tight-knit indigenous peasant community has endured generations of brutal exploitation by local landowners. When a shocking act of violence exposes the complete failure of the official justice system to protect them, the villagers’ simmering anger pushes them toward a crossroads.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Himself
A fundamental person for Peruvian cinema, Jorge Vignati Ojeda, tells us about his beginnings in the cinematographic world, in a meaningful interview conducted in his own style: hand-held camera and sequence shot. With him we tour the Plaza de Armas of his native Cusco, while we listen to his beginnings as an outstanding student of the university of life