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TEO ESCAMILLA
Born: 23 October 1940, Seville, Andalucía, Spain, as Teodoro Escamilla Serrano.
Died: 21 December 1997, Matanzas, Cuba, during the prod of 'Conciencia y corazón'.
Career: Started as photojournalist and still ph for magazines like 'Sábado Gráfico' and 'El Caso'.
Awards: 'Goya' Award [1987] for 'El amor brujo'; 'Goya' Award nom [1989] for 'El Dorado' & 'Berlín Blues'; 'Goya' Award nom [1990] for 'Montoyas y Tarantos' & 'La noche oscura'.
'Teo
Escamilla ranked as one of Spain's most talented and daring late 20th century
cinematographers. Escamilla learned his trade from Luis Cuadrado, with whom he
worked as an assistant and camera operator from the early 60s through 1975, at
which time Cuadrado tragically went blind. Afterward, Escamilla took over
Cuadrado's position and worked closely with the team of producer Elias Querejeta.
Escamilla served as cinematographer shooting Carlos Saura's wrenching domestic
drama 'Cría cuervos'. He would continue working with Saura for the next
13 years. Escamilla, much like his mentor Cuadrado, used carefully selected
palate and camera techniques to create the illusion of having created living
paintings. He differed from Cuadrado in his penchant for taking risks and
devising creative new ways of filming. His fearlessness in the face of
innovation mirrored Saura's. Their most famous collaborations include their
three flamenco films, 'Bodas de sangre', 'Carmen', and 'El amor
brujo'. Escamilla was living in Cuba and was busy working on his directorial
effort 'Conciencia y corazón' when he died of a heart attack.' [Sandra
Brennan, All Movie Guide.]
| FILMS | |
|---|---|
|
1974 |
Las violentas [Fernando Miranda] c |
|
1975 |
Tiempos duros para Drácula [Jorge Darnell] c |
|
1975 |
Cría cuervos/Raise Ravens/Cria! [Carlos Saura] c |
|
1976 |
El desencanto/The Disenchantment [Jaime Chávarri] b&w-c; doc/97m; cph: Juan Ruiz-Anchía |
|
1976 |
La ciutat cremada/La ciudad quemada [Antoni Ribas] c; 156m |
|
1976 |
Caperucita y Roja [Aitor Goirocelaya & Luis Revenga] c |
|
1976 |
Viure sense viure [Carles Mira] c; short/17m |
|
1977 |
Elisa, vida mía [Carlos Saura] c |
|
1977 |
A un dios desconocido/To an Unknown God [Jaime Chávarri] c |
|
1977 |
In memoriam [Enrique Brasó] c |
|
1977 |
Del amor y de la muerte [Antonio Giménez-Rico] tvi/c |
|
1977 |
Las palabras de Max [Emilio Martínez Lázaro] 16mm-35bu/c |
|
1977 |
Nunca es tarde [Jaime de Armiñán] c |
|
1977 |
La vieja memoria/The Old Memory [Jaime Camino] b&w; doc/165m; cph: José Luis Alcaine, Magín Torruella, a.o. |
|
1977 |
José Hernández [Fernando González de Canales] c; doc/11m |
|
1978 |
Los ojos vendados [Carlos Saura] c |
|
1978 |
La portentosa vida nel padre Vicente/La portentosa vida del pare Vicent/The Prodigious Life of Father Vincent [Carles Mira] c |
|
1978 |
Sonámbulos [Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón] c |
|
1978 |
El corazón del bosque [Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón] c |
|
1979 |
Dedicatoria [Jaime Chávarri] c |
|
1979 |
Mamá cumple cien años/Mama Turns 100 [Carlos Saura] c |
|
1979 |
F.E.N./Formacion del espiritu nacional [Antonio Hernández] c |
|
1979 |
Cuentos para una escapada [seg ? dir by ?] c; 7 seg; other ph: Carlos Suárez |
|
1980 |
Espacios inhabitables [Sylvia Zade-Routier] c; doc/13m |
|
1980 |
El nido/The Nest [Jaime de Armiñán] c |
|
1980 |
Maravillas [Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón] c |
|
1980 |
Deprisa, deprisa/Hurry, Hurry/Fast, Fast [Carlos Saura] scope/c |
|
1981 |
Apaga... y vámonos/We Had Better Call It a Day [Antonio Hernández] c |
|
1981 |
Bodas de sangre/Blood Wedding [Carlos Saura] c |
|
1981 |
El hombre del subsuelo [Nicolás Sarquís] c; cph: Ricardo Younis |
|
1981 |
Función de noche/Evening Performance/Night Function [Josefina Molina] c |
|
1981 |
Trágala, perro [Antonio Artero] c; cph: Manuel Merino |
|
1981 |
Dulces horas [Carlos Saura] c |
|
1981 |
En septiembre [Jaime de Armiñán] c |
|
1982 |
Antonieta [Carlos Saura] p/c |
|
1982 |
Río abajo/On the Line/Downstream [José Luis Borau] c; addph: Juan Gelpi, Stephen L. Posey, Misha Suslov & Nicholas Josef von Sternberg |
|
1983 |
Carmen [Carlos Saura] c |
|
1983 |
La huella árabe en España [Jaime de Armiñán] c; doc/12m; cph: Javier Aguirresarobe |
|
1983 |
Vestida de azul/Dressed in Blue [Antonio Giménez-Rico] c |
|
1984 |
Feroz [Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón] c |
|
1984 |
Los zancos/The Stilts [Carlos Saura] c |
|
1984 |
Un été d'enfer/Un verano de infierno [Michael Schock] c |
|
1984 |
Stico [Jaime de Armiñán] c |
|
1985 |
La hora bruja/The Witching Hour [Jaime de Armiñán] c |
|
1985 |
El amor brujo/Love, the Magician [Carlos Saura] c |
|
1986 |
Extramuros/Beyond the Walls/Outside the City [Miguel Picazo] c |
|
1986 |
Tata mía/My Dear Nanny [José Luis Borau] c |
|
1986 |
El Dorado [Carlos Saura] p/c |
|
1987 |
Mi general/My General [Jaime de Armiñán] c |
|
1987 |
Berlín Blues [Ricardo Franco] c |
|
1988 |
La noche oscura/The Dark Night [Carlos Saura] c; 2uc: Domingo Solano |
|
1989 |
Montoyas y Tarantos [Vicente Escrivá] c; + exec prod |
|
1993 |
La Lola se va a los puertos [Josefina Molina] c |
|
1993 |
Tres palabras [Antonio Giménez-Rico] c |
|
1993 |
Al otro lado del túnel/On the Far Side of the Tunnel [Jaime de Armiñán] c; + co-exec prod |
|
1994 |
El rey del río [Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón] c |
|
1994 |
Felicidades Tovarich [Antonio Eceiza] scope/c; + prod |
|
1995 |
Death in Granada/The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca/Muerte en Granada [Marcos Zurinaga] p/c; 2uc Spain; ph: Juan Ruíz-Anchía |
|
1996 |
Robo en el cine Capitol [Fernando Guillén Cuervo] c; short/14m |
|
1996 |
Las ratas/The Rats [Antonio Giménez-Rico] c |
|
1997 |
Cazadores [Achero Mañas] c; short/12m |
|
1997 |
Omnibus [Paco Millán Romero] c; short/31m |
|
1997 |
Cosas que dejé en La Habana/Things I Left in Havana [Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón] c |
| TELEVISION | |
|---|---|
|
1967 |
Valencia de Blasco Ibáñez [José Luis Font] doc/b&w; cph: Francisco Madurga & Luis Cuadrado |
|
1983 |
Cuentos imposibles [Jaime de Armiñán] 6-part miniseries |
|
1987 |
Juncal [Jaime de Armiñán] 7-part miniseries |
|
1991 |
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes/Don Quijote de la Mancha [Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón] 2-part tvm |
| FILMS AS CAMERA ASSISTANT/OPERATOR | |
|---|---|
|
1965 |
Muere una mujer [Mario Camus] c.op; ph: Víctor Monreal |
|
1965 |
La caza/The Hunt [Carlos Saura] c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1966 |
Nueve cartas a Berta/Nine Letters to Bertha [Basilio Martín Patino] co-c.op; ph: Luis Enrique Torán |
|
1966 |
Hoy como ayer [Mariano Ozores] c.op; ph: Vicente Minaya |
|
1966 |
Una chica para dos [León Klimovsky] c.op; ph: Francisco Fraile |
|
1966 |
Dos alas/Two Wings [Pascual Cervera] 2nd c.asst; ph: Francisco Fraile |
|
1966 |
Los celos y el duende [Silvio F. Balbuena] c.op; ph: Francisco Fraile |
|
1966 |
Último encuentro/The Last Meeting [Antonio Eceiza] 2nd c.asst; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1967 |
Crónica de nueve meses [Mariano Ozores] c.op; ph: Vicente Minaya |
|
1967 |
Peppermint frappé [Carlos Saura] c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1967 |
40 grados a la sombra [Mariano Ozores] c.op; ph: Vicente Minaya |
|
1967 |
Si volvemos a vernos/Smashing Up [Francisco Regueiro] 2nd c.asst; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1967 |
Los Flamencos [Jesús Yagüe] c.op; ph: José F. Aguayo |
|
1968 |
¡Cómo está el servicio! [Mariano Ozores] c.op; ph: Vicente Minaya |
|
1968 |
Los desafíos/The Challenges [Claudio Guerín, José Luis Egea & Víctor Erice] c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1968 |
-Stress-es tres-tres-/Stress Is Three [Carlos Saura] c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1968 |
La madriguera/Honeycomb [Carlos Saura] c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1969 |
El día de mañana [Agustín Navarro] 2nd c.asst; ph: Francisco Fraile |
|
1969 |
Las secretas intenciones/Secret Intentions [Antonio Eceiza] 2nd c.asst; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1970 |
Una vela para el diablo/A Candle for the Devil/It Happened at Nightmare Inn [Eugenio Martín] c.op; ph: José F. Aguayo |
|
1970 |
El dinero tiene miedo/Cómo atrapar a un Don Juan [Pedro Lazaga] co-c.op; ph: Juan Mariné |
|
1970 |
El jardín de las delicias/The Garden of Delights [Carlos Saura] c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1970 |
Goya. Historia de una soledad [Nino Quevedo] 2nd c.asst; ph: Luis Cuadrado & José F. Aguayo |
|
1971 |
Mi querida señorita/My Dearest Senorita [Jaime de Armiñán] c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1972 |
Ana y los lobos/Anna and the Wolves [Carlos Saura] c.op (segundo operador); ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1972 |
Horror Express/Pánico en el Transiberiano [Gene Martin (= Eugenio Martín)] c.op; ph: Alejandro Ulloa |
|
1973 |
Habla, mudita/Don Ramiro [Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón] c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1973 |
El espíritu de la colmena/The Spirit of the Beehive [Víctor Erice] co-c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1973 |
La prima Angélica/Cousin Angelica [Carlos Saura] c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1974 |
Hay que matar a B./B Must Die [José Luis Borau] c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1974 |
Il bianco, il giallo, il nero/El blanco, el amarillo, el negro/White, the Yellow, and the Black/Samurai/Shoot First... Ask Questions Later [Sergio Corbucci] co-2nd c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
|
1975 |
Furtivos [José Luis Borau] c.op; ph: Luis Cuadrado |
| FILMS AS DIRECTOR | |
|---|---|
|
1976 |
Quiero ser mayor [+ scrpl; short/15m] ph: Antonio Escamilla |
|
1979 |
Cuentos para una escapada [seg 'Soñando para vivir'] 7 seg; ph: ?; released in 1981 |
|
1984 |
Tú solo/You Alone [doc/95m] ph: Antonio Escamilla |
|
1997 |
Conciencia y corazón [unfinished] |
