Miguel Bejo

Directing

Born: January 28, 1944

Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Miguel Bejo (born 1944) is an Argentine filmmaker and screenwriter associated with the radical underground avant-garde that emerged in Buenos Aires during the early 1970s. Born in Buenos Aires, he grew up in Rosario, where he made his first short films and worked in television before returning to Buenos Aires and becoming involved in the city's film scene. Alongside filmmakers such as Edgardo Cozarinsky, Rafael Filippelli, and Julio Ludueña, Bejo was part of the Argentine Underground, a group characterized by a radical approach to cinema that distanced itself from both the traditional film industry and other contemporary movements. His first feature film, *La familia unida esperando la llegada de Hallewyn* (1971), became one of the most radical works of Argentine underground cinema of the period, combining formal audacity, theatricality, black humor, and a provocative critique of bourgeois family and social conventions. In 1978, Bejo moved to France, where he continues to live and work to this day.