RIP Claudia Isaac

 

Claudio Isaac, filmmaker and writer, dies at 67

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Ny Demian Garcia

November 27, 2024

 

On the afternoon of this Wednesday, November 27, the death of filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac (Mexico City, 1957-Ibidem, 2024) at the age of 67 was reported.

"With deep sorrow we communicate the death of our beloved author Claudio Isaac," wrote the Tedium Vitae Publishing House through its Facebook account in a brief and heartfelt statement.

"We are honored to have published part of his work, which with his sensitivity and humanity touched so many lives. We join in the grief of his family and friends. His artistic legacy will remain among us," added the publishing house of the Mexican painter.

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Claudio Isaac, an artist's life

According to the records, he was a self-taught artist in all the disciplines he practiced. He made his acting debut as a young pupil of Arturo Ripstein in Tiempo de morir (1965), only to later become an assistant director for the same filmmaker in Foxtrot (1975).

Although a year later, in 1976, he premiered his debut film, it was not until the first half of the 1980s that the passions that haunted him until his death began to come together clearly: literature, documentation, and cinema. He then directed, in this order, Algo sobre Jaime Sabines (1980), Guadalupe amor, un caso mitológico (1981) and Octavio Paz, El lenguaje de los árboles (1983).

By the second half of the nineties, after having intimately drawn the life of the myth Pedro Infante, he constructed in his own way unique portraits of Abel Quezada, José Luis Cuevas and the Guatemalan short story writer Augusto Monterroso.

This seemed to be the foundation of a career as a documentary filmmaker, in which he built dozens of profiles of living writers. Sometime later he hosted programs for TVUNAM and Canal 22 and wrote for cultural magazines and newspapers such as Letras Libres, La tempestad, Nexos, Este País, El Financiero and El Universal.

Finally, those who accompanied his journey during his last years say that he devoted himself entirely to painting. From writing, directing and continuing to make films, all the legacy he left while he was alive remains.

ISAAC, Claudio (Claudio Isaac Rueda)

Born: 4/15/1957, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico

Died: 11/27/2024, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico

 

Claudio Isaac’s western – actor:

Time to Die – 1966 (Claudio Sampedro)