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Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas

ISSN 2050-4837

1 paper in the library · publishing 2021

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A jaguar in Paris: Teo Hernández’s shamanic cinema

Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas September 1, 2021 Thomas Matusiak

Teo Hernández (Ciudad Hidalgo 1939–Paris 1992) began a prolific career as an experimental filmmaker after entering a self-imposed exile in Paris in 1966. With no formal training, he completed dozens of films on the amateur format of Super 8 before his untimely death at the height of the AIDS epidemic in France. Hernández’s cinema cannot be separated from his postcolonial experience as an...