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Daily thoughts and meditations by Hugo Santander

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A life in theatre. What is a victory without compassion? If all the defeated were aware of the need the victorious has of getting recognition for his well-done job, humanity would avoid many a long war. So far, no philosopher has pointed out the differences between smiling and laughing. People smile of joy, as they laugh of scorn. The sensitivity of a man, as well as the sensitivity of a culture, could be measure by their promptness to laugh. It is not vanity, but hypocrisy that characterizes humanity&#4...

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Poems on America, the world, life and death by Hugo Santander

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A life in theatre. Stop thy circle, Oh, continuous heavens. Hold the sun yonder this terrain of peace. And keep the starts motionless over the sea. Retain the waters, annihilate the thorns. Of events frustrated by becoming days,. And let us delay this solitary encounter. When my beloved so happy over my lap sleeps. Sharing few days after so long an absence,. A simple night drown by many a night to come. And if numbers lie, then allow us lie in death. Stop thy circle, Oh, continuous heavens. From the dept...

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Curriculum vitae of Hugo Santander

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A life in theatre. Hugo Santander was born in Bucaramanga, Colombia in 1968. In 1990 he graduated in Social Communication from the Universidad Javeriana. Where he also started a Ph.D. in Philosophy. In 1994, after staging several theater plays as director of Arte Facto Teatro. And after obtaining a Post-graduate degree in Screenwriting from the Universidad del Rosario, Hugo was accepted at the MFA program in Film and Media Arts at Temple University. In Ponte de Lima, Portugal. Kyrgyzstan) on Media Manage...

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Videos by Hugo Santander

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My life of learning through twelve languages in five continents. A life in theatre. Rtrait of half a dozen men and women who live in the crowded and unhealthy industrial courts of Oporto, an odd architectural legacy of the industrial revolution. Through a series of intimate conversations, shot at daylight, and with one or two crew members, 'Ilhas do Porto' is a warm portrait of the lives, hopes and frustrations of several Portuguese men and women on the turn of the 21st century. Nueva Era is periodically...

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Book reviews by Hugo Santander

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A life in theatre. Nokes, David. Jonathan Swift, A Hypocrite Reversed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985). Ravoke, Jack, Origrinal Meanings: Politics and Ideas In The Making of The Constitution. Laquo;Climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping» (p. 66). His relationship with Stella, or Esther, is obscure, and the biographer spends entire pages suggesting she was Swift's secret lover. Such puritan approach makes dull the reading of this book. After completing his research, Ravoke returns ...

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SHort stories by Hugo Santander

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A life in theatre. He licked a drop of coffee from his mouth, a remain of a hasty breakfast, put his sunglasses on and glanced at his watch. It was ten twenty-five. He looked around, searching for a bench where he could sit down. Ain't gonna be warmer! He uttered covering his ears with his mittens. 8220;If I were able to get five thousand dollars from those wealthy Arabs! 8221; he muttered casting a glance on his Toyota, “Now it will be my turn to let you down! 8220;Do it then,” Tanner sighed. 8220;You m...

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Children short stories by Hugo Santander

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A life in theatre. The Road that Ended in the Sea. Once upon a time, there was a divorced man called Manolo, who decided to ride the entire continent in his 4x4 Jeep. He took with him Belinda, his beautiful 9-year-old daughter, and having taken books and provisions for several months, drove his Jeep onto the nearest highway. Manolo and Belinda had decided to drive the entire day through the country, while studying mathematics, Geography and Literature, the three subjects that Belinda liked the most.

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Theater plays by Hugo Santander, dramas, comedies, tragedies

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A life in theatre. Jungle-born citizen Ulysses has been sent by his mother to succeed in Globalization. The best he can do is to have a couple of love affairs, to fall into debts, and to get an underpaid job. After a fight with her lover, a shot is heard. He is blamed for the death of Jake M. Junior. Kennedy tells off his father for his affair. They fight and Kenney decides, then, to become independent by getting enlisted in the army. Ulysses, on the run, meets his mother, who is now a 14-year old girl- ...

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Film reviews by Hugo Santander

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A life in theatre. By György Palfi (2006). The life of others. From the onset of the 20th century the artistic possibilities of cinema were understood by the early French impressionists. Since then, many unknown filmmakers have attempted to break through as innovators. The lighting and the sets of Murnau, the riding cameras of Abel Gance, the close-ups of the Russian formalists and the depth of field of Orson Welles's films are now landmarks of a aesthetic history of cinema. The final scene, in which an ...

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Translations by Hugo Santander

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A life in theatre. Buñuel's Philosophical Cinema. El Cine Filosófico de Buñuel). Guest and companion of the body. Now, to which places will you go? Blank, stiff and waste. Ith no games , as you were used to? But sometimes an artist goes beyond the limits of his art. We can find, then, an artistic work with correspondences out of its own scope. Some of the movies by Buñuel belong to this group, e.g., The Golden age and The forgotten. Tr by Hugo Santander, 1997. Animula, vagula, blandula. In our way to fee...