Roberto Guerra

For more than twenty-five years, Roberto Guerra, collaborated with Eila Hershon on films with a diversity of subjects including portraits of artists and profiles of international personalities in the worlds of design and fashion. The films have always been characterized by a sense of involvement and intimacy with the subjects and by a depth of cultural sub-text. Some of the titles include: Frida Kahlo, Oskar Kokoschka, Hans Haacke, Seventy Five Years of Cinema (as seen through the eyes of Henri Langlois), Chanel, Chanel, The Story of Fashion (a three-hour series on twentieth century fashion), The Beauty Queens (a three-hour series profiling Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden and Estee Lauder), and Design, a six-part series profiling Karl Lagerfeld, Elliott Erwitt, Lella and Massimo Vignelli, Milton Glaser, Benjamin and Jane Thompson, and Richard Sapper, among many others.

For over ten years Roberto Guerra has been collaborating with Kathy Brew on arts-related as well as other social issue projects with a particular focus on representing the vision and contributions of creative people to larger audiences. They are interested in the interface between art and reality, and in how artists respond to issues of our times. Recent projects include: : four short films on Chinese contemporary artists, part of the Observer Observed series for The Joy of Giving Something, Inc.; ID/entity: Portraits in the 21st Century, commissioned by the MIT Media Lab; a collaboration with artist Mierle Ukeles, creating a multiple-channel installation about the Fresh Kills landfill; Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution. Guerra and Brew also independently produced segments for WNET’s City Arts and Egg, and received two Emmy awards for Outstanding Fine Arts Programming.

Photo by Lonnie Graham

Contact Information:
robertoguerra [at] verizon.net

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