His place behind the camera with a lens on the world, which he left too early after a fierce battle with cancer, is celebrated tonight and seen in the new film, Roberto Guerra: A Life, by filmmaker Lorry Salcedo Mitrani, at the opening of the New York Peruvian Film Showcase (NYPFS). His later work produced collaboratively with his life, love, intellectual, and artistic partner Kathy Brew provided an incisive look at the creative process, asked all the right questions, captured all the kooky quirks, and attests to a documentarian who was unflinching yet loving toward his subjects. And so this aptly describes his documentary style, as a Peruvian-American citizen of the world who from a young age documented the most chic of the chic (warning, name dropping ahead: Coco Chanel!), the founding fathers of film (French Cinematheque founder Henri Langlois), and the choicest dudes and dudettes of design (Massimo and Ada Vignelli). It’s tough to decide on what the first impression of the late filmmaker Roberto Guerra was most striking: his owl-like, inquisitive eyes open wide with curiosity and magnified in his stylish, designer frames, or his enormous grin, broad, warm and infectious, ready to welcome friend and stranger alike into his unique realm of life and art.
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