Valeria Sarmiento | |
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| Born | (1948-10-29)29 October 1948 (age 76) Valparaíso, Chile |
| Alma mater | University of Chile |
| Occupation(s) | Film editor, director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Style | Drama,comedy,experimental film |
| Spouse | |
Valeria Sarmiento (born 29 October 1948) is afilm editor,director andscreenwriter best known for her work in France, Portugal and her native Chile. She has worked both infilm andtelevision, directing 20 feature films,documentaries andtelevision series'. She is the widow of Chilean film directorRaúl Ruiz (1941-2011) with whom she collaborated for decades as regular editor and co-writer. She has also edited films forLuc Moullet,Robert Kramer andVentura Pons and is aGuggenheim Fellow (1988).
Sarmiento was born in the Chilean municipality ofValparaíso and was first exposed to film at the age of five, becoming familiar with the work ofOrson Welles,Alfred Hitchcock and others.[1] She rarely saw French films due tocensorship but, thanks to what she refers to as a "moment of magic", was able to watchJean-Luc Godard'sBreathless (1960) at the age of twelve.[1] She went on to study film andphilosophy at theUniversity of Valparaíso and married filmmakerRaúl Ruiz in 1969. In 1974, the couple were forced to move toParis[2] due to the1973 Chilean coup d'état ofAugusto Pinochet.[1]
Sarmiento made herdirectorial debut with the documentaryUn sueño como de colores (1972) about a group ofChilean women dedicated tostriptease. Her later work as a director, usually inmelodrama,romantic drama andcostume drama, has also often featured strong female characters who facemachismo andsexism.[3] Her debut featureNotre mariage (1984) was a Grand Prix winner for Best New Director at theSan Sebastián International Film Festival,[4] her 1991 filmAmelia Lópes O'Neill was entered into the41st Berlin International Film Festival[5] and her Napoleonicwar epicLines of Wellington competed for theGolden Lion at the69th Venice International Film Festival.[6]
Asymposium on Sarmiento'sfeminism was held atStanford University in May 2008[1] and theCinémathèque Française ran a Sarmientoretrospective in October 2018.[2]
| Year | Title | Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Screenwriter | Editor | Actor | ||
| 1972 | Un sueño como de colores | Yes | |||
| Poeísa popular: la teoría y la práctica | Yes | Yes | |||
| Los minuteros | Yes | Yes | |||
| The Expropriation | Yes | ||||
| 1975 | Dialogues of Exiles | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1977 | Dog's Dialogue | Yes | |||
| 1978 | Genèse d'un repas | Yes | |||
| The Suspended Vocation | Yes | ||||
| 1979 | Le mal du pays | Yes | Yes | ||
| Gens du nulle part, gens de toutes parts | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1980 | La borgne | Yes | |||
| Guns | Yes | ||||
| 1981 | The Territory | Yes | |||
| 1982 | On Top of the Whale | Yes | |||
| El hombre cuando es hombre | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1983 | Les minutes d'un faiseur de film | Yes | |||
| Three Crowns of the Sailor | Yes | ||||
| City of Pirates | Yes | ||||
| 1984 | 7 faux raccords | Yes | |||
| Notre mariage | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1985 | Voyage d'une main | Yes | Yes | ||
| Treasure Island | Yes | ||||
| 1987 | Brise-glace | Yes | |||
| 1990 | The Blind Owl | Yes | |||
| Amelia Lópes O'Neill | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1994 | Viaggio clandestino - Vite di santi e di peccaroti | Yes | |||
| 1995 | Wind Water | Yes | |||
| Elle | Yes | ||||
| 1997 | Le film à venir | Yes | |||
| Genealogies of a Crime | Yes | ||||
| 1998 | L'inconnu de Strasbourg | Yes | Yes | ||
| Carlos Fuentes: Un voyage dans les temps | Yes | ||||
| 2000 | Love Torn in a Dream | Yes | |||
| 2001 | Savage Souls | Yes | |||
| 2002 | Rosa la china | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2003 | That Day | Yes | |||
| A Place Among the Living | Yes | ||||
| 2004 | Edipo | Yes | |||
| 2005 | The Lost Domain | Yes | |||
| 2006 | Klimt | Yes | |||
| 2008 | Secrets | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2010 | A Closed Book | Yes | |||
| Mysteries of Lisbon | Yes | ||||
| 2012 | Lines of Wellington (conceived by Ruiz, shot by Sarmiento) | Yes | |||
| 2013 | Maria Graham: Diary of a Residence in Chile | Yes | |||
| 2017 | The Wandering Soap Opera (shot by Ruiz in 1990, completed by Sarmiento) | Yes | |||
| 2018 | The Black Book of Father Dinis | Yes | |||
| 2020 | The Tango of the Widower (shot by Ruiz in 1967, completed by Sarmiento) | Yes | |||
