Viva il cinema!
Official selection, Un Certain Regard
Cannes Film Festival, France 2003

The poster
Oswaldo Vigas

“If a work does not reflect any of the aspects of the soul, its anxieties, its desires, its hopes, its imponderable desires, if it does not reflect any of that, then it is not art.”

Oswaldo Vigas

“Through women, always present in his paintings, Oswaldo Vigas certainly glimpsed both this overwhelming tropical, luxuriant, dominant nature, and the enigmatic, devouring secret forces to which all primitive peoples have revered in a fervent cult.”

Gaston Diehl, art historian

The poster of Un Certain Regard 2003 is the adaptation for the 56th Cannes Film Festival from an original work by Oswaldo Vigas, the Bruja de la culebra.

Born in Valencia, Venezuela, Oswaldo Vigas is one of the great masters of Latin American art today. Vigas covered all kinds of Plastic Arts and organized numerous exhibitions worldwide. Passionate about cinema, he was part of the Venezuelan intellectuals who worked on the preparation of acts in the cinema sphere and he was the founder of the Center of Cinematography of the University of the Andes, the first school of cinema in the country.