Guillermo Escalón

Director

Caracas, Venezuela

Biography

Guillermo Escalón (b. 1950) is a Salvadoran film director, cinematographer, and producer. Escalón joined the theater group El Taller de los Vagos in 1969 and collaborated with the likes of José David Calderón, Alejandro Cotto, and Baltazar Polío. With the escalation of the political conflict, Escalón immigrated from El Salvador to France, where he graduated in Philosophy and joined a television crew. With his experience in professional filmmaking, Escalón returned to El Salvador and cemented him…

Filmography

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Tiempo de audacia

This documentary juxtaposes scenes of El Salvador's opposition factions, including U.S. government advisors and government troops, and guerrillas and their sympathizers.

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La decisión de vencer (Los primeros frutos)

Filmed by Guillermo Escalón in July 1981, it shows daily life in territories under guerrilla control in the Francisco Sánchez Northeastern Front, Department of Morazán,

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Morazán

The central objective of the documentary is to show the social situation of the peasant communities in the department of Morazán. The documentary emphasizes military training and the development of war devices in the newly formed guerrilla camps.

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Intertidal Zone

This film aims to describe the agony of a biology teacher who finds himself in a place of limits, at the edge of life and death. Set in the years just prior to El Salvador's civil war, years in which teachers were targeted and brutalized.

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Cárcel de árboles

Rodrigo Rey Rosa, a Guatemalan writer, depicts a dream about cells in trees in a short story. Years later, he discovers an internment camp in the jungle of his native Guatemala, a camp that embodies this unsettling idea, brought to life by a doctor.

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Fire Dialogues

Filmmaker Guillermo Escalon and composer Igor Gandarias are in residence at EMPAC to record the Hudson River journey of Beatriz Cortez’s sculpture Ilopango, the Volcano that Left, for a forthcoming film (2024). The sculpture will sail up the Hudson River by boat from its exhibition at Storm King Art Center to EMPAC for the opening of Shifting Center, where it will be installed for the duration of the exhibition. Shifting Center also features Escalon and Gandarias’ film Rapsodia.

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Alejandro

Alejandro Cotto, a pioneer of Salvadoran cinema, celebrates his 63rd birthday in Suchitoto while the youth celebrate the end of the civil war. He speaks with Escalón about the struggles faced by Third World filmmakers, the horrors of war, the fate of his village, and the pursuit of his dreams.

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Carta de Morazán

Cinematic documentary made in 1982, which reveals the life and organization of some camps in the eastern zone of El Salvador. It shows images of combat, guerrilla training, and special forces, forms of political propaganda in cities like Ciudad Barrios, as well as meetings of leaders of the General Command and an interview with General Castillo, Deputy Minister of Defense at the time.

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