Oscar García Chávez, Film Director

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02 About

A director shaped by images, books, and contradiction.

I grew up in Monterrey and moved to Austin in 2018. I left chemical engineering to pursue film, with directing at the center of my practice.

I studied Film Production at Full Sail University, followed by Screenwriting at NYFA in Los Angeles.

Because directing has always been my focus, I also studied Acting at NYFA to better understand the actors' process and communicate with them more precisely. My work spans directing, writing, production, and cinematography.

I also studied programming at Austin Coding Academy to automate parts of my work as a financial advisor and create more time for filmmaking.

Based
Austin, TX / Monterrey, MX
Languages
Spanish / English / some German
Practice
Direction / Writing / Production / CinematographyFinancial management / Investing / Coding
Interests
Philosophy / Piano / Martial arts / Reading

03 Library

Some of the books I've read.

Dare yourself to become who you are. Friedrich Nietzsche

36 of 204 titles

  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Süskind
  • Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • The Tunnel, by Ernesto Sábato
  • The Double, by José Saramago
  • Recursos humanos, by Antonio Ortuño
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
  • The Castle, by Franz Kafka
  • Demian, by Hermann Hesse
  • Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
  • El gato, by Juan García Ponce
  • Figura de paja, by Juan García Ponce
  • The Possibility of an Island, by Michel Houellebecq
  • The Dance of Reality, by Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Diary of a Genius, by Salvador Dalí
  • Peter Camenzind, by Hermann Hesse
  • Verde Shanghai, by Cristina Rivera Garza
  • The Stranger, by Albert Camus
  • The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, by Carlos Castaneda
  • A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan, by Carlos Castaneda
  • Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan, by Carlos Castaneda
  • Tales of Power, by Carlos Castaneda
  • The Second Ring of Power, by Carlos Castaneda
  • The Eagle's Gift, by Carlos Castaneda
  • Hopscotch, by Julio Cortázar
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
  • Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll
  • The Family of Pascual Duarte, by Camilo José Cela
  • 2666, by Roberto Bolaño
  • Pedro and the Captain, by Mario Benedetti
  • La panza del Tepozteco, by José Agustín
  • Prelude to Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
  • Forward the Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
  • Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
  • The Literary Conference, by César Aira
  • El enigma de la muerte, by Various Authors
  • La vida secreta: Diario inédito, by Gala Dalí
  • The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • Anarchism, by Henri Arvon
  • La palabra sobrevive, by Carlos Fuentes Lemus
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman, by Manuel Puig
  • In the Miso Soup, by Ryū Murakami
  • El testigo, by Juan Villoro
  • A Brief History of Portable Literature, by Enrique Vila-Matas
  • Bartleby & Co., by Enrique Vila-Matas
  • Montano's Malady, by Enrique Vila-Matas
  • Doctor Pasavento, by Enrique Vila-Matas
  • El viaje vertical, by Enrique Vila-Matas
  • La filosofía de Kant: Una introducción a la filosofía, by Manuel García Morente
  • Night, by Elie Wiesel
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
  • Mist, by Miguel de Unamuno
  • A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Sign of Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Elementary Particles, by Michel Houellebecq
  • Signs Preceding the End of the World, by Yuri Herrera
  • Silk, by Alessandro Baricco
  • An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, by César Aira
  • Naomi, by Junichiro Tanizaki
  • The Carpathian Castle, by Jules Verne
  • The Guest, by Guadalupe Nettel
  • Correr el tupido velo, by Pilar Donoso
  • The Greeks, by Isaac Asimov
  • Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Flyer, by César Aira
  • Mármol, by César Aira
  • The Three Dates, by César Aira
  • Tierra salada, by Mauricio Sanders
  • Hell Has No Limits, by José Donoso
  • Artificial Respiration, by Ricardo Piglia
  • The Confusions of Young Törless, by Robert Musil
  • Los secretos del anarquismo, by Constant Leroy
  • Manual del cazador, by Santos Meler
  • The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño
  • Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
  • Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
  • Othello, by William Shakespeare
  • House of the Sleeping Beauties, by Yasunari Kawabata
  • Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges
  • The Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges
  • De perfil, by José Agustín
  • The Book of Sand, by Jorge Luis Borges
  • Hallucinations: or, The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando, by Reinaldo Arenas
  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue, by Edgar Allan Poe
  • La tumba, by José Agustín
  • Whore, by Nelly Arcan
  • Caligula, by Albert Camus
  • The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, by Umberto Eco
  • Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  • Fire from Within, by Carlos Castaneda
  • The Power of Silence, by Carlos Castaneda
  • The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad
  • El revés del alma, by Carla Guelfenbein
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Rosshalde, by Hermann Hesse
  • Narcissus and Goldmund, by Hermann Hesse
  • Beneath the Wheel, by Hermann Hesse
  • Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
  • A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
  • Como en la guerra, by Luisa Valenzuela
  • El viajero más lento, by Enrique Vila-Matas
  • Éste que ves, by Xavier Velasco
  • El materialismo histérico, by Xavier Velasco
  • Diablo guardián, by Xavier Velasco
  • Homo Videns, by Giovanni Sartori
  • On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, by Dave Grossman
  • La filosofía de la vida, by Arthur Schopenhauer
  • El insomnio de Bolívar, by Jorge Volpi
  • Extraña forma de vida, by Enrique Vila-Matas
  • The Shipyard, by Juan Carlos Onetti
  • The Walk, by Robert Walser
  • An Outline of Psychoanalysis, by Sigmund Freud
  • Civilization and Its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud
  • The Ego and the Id, by Sigmund Freud
  • Psicoanálisis del arte, by Sigmund Freud
  • The Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud
  • The Mediocre Man, by José Ingenieros
  • The Conquest of Happiness, by Bertrand Russell
  • El eros electrónico, by Román Gubern
  • Man and His Symbols, by C. G. Jung
  • Lecciones preliminares de filosofía, by Manuel García Morente
  • The Revolt of the Masses, by José Ortega y Gasset
  • On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme, by José Ortega y Gasset
  • The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
  • The Pit, by Juan Carlos Onetti
  • Kingdom Cons, by Yuri Herrera
  • Authority and the Individual, by Bertrand Russell
  • Unions, by Robert Musil
  • Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge
  • The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector
  • En la noche dormida, by Emilio Bobadilla
  • The Girl with the Golden Eyes, by Honoré de Balzac
  • The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • In the Dark Places of Wisdom, by Peter Kingsley
  • Confessions of a Mask, by Yukio Mishima
  • La abeja, by César Aira
  • The Reef, by Juan Villoro
  • A Plan for Escape, by Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • The Third Reich, by Roberto Bolaño
  • Aura, by Carlos Fuentes
  • Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Galápagos, by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Yo era una chica moderna, by César Aira
  • The Little Buddhist Monk, by César Aira
  • Heart of a Dog, by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • A Little Lumpen Novel, by Roberto Bolaño
  • La conquista de Bizancio, by José María Vargas Vila
  • The Two Clowns, by César Aira
  • Parménides, by César Aira
  • The Magician, by César Aira
  • The Lover, by Marguerite Duras
  • Birthday, by César Aira
  • An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures, by Clarice Lispector
  • The Map and the Territory, by Michel Houellebecq
  • The Queen's Gambit, by Walter Tevis
  • Los sueños y el tiempo, by María Zambrano
  • Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto
  • The Death of Artemio Cruz, by Carlos Fuentes
  • Modern Military Strategy: An Introduction, by Elinor C. Sloan
  • Personas, by Carlos Fuentes
  • The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz, by Jules Verne
  • No One Will See Me Cry, by Cristina Rivera Garza
  • Austin, Texas 1979, by Francisco Ángeles
  • The Psychology of Investing, by John R. Nofsinger
  • After Dark, by Haruki Murakami
  • The Burnout Society, by Byung-Chul Han
  • The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower, by Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond
  • Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
  • The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Return of the King, by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
  • La separación de los amantes: Una fenomenología de la muerte, by Igor A. Caruso
  • Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
  • Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Pensées, by Blaise Pascal
  • La altísima, by Felipe Trigo
  • Las evas del paraíso, by Felipe Trigo
  • Alma en los labios, by Felipe Trigo
  • Battles in the Desert, by José Emilio Pacheco
  • The Underdogs, by Mariano Azuela
  • Before Night Falls, by Reinaldo Arenas
  • Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, by Yanis Varoufakis
  • The Guided Transformation Journal, by Aisha Alcaraz Marshall
  • The Bourne Identity, by Robert Ludlum
  • The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
  • A Comedy of Nobodies, by Baron Ryan
  • The Craft of Scene Writing: Beat by Beat to a Better Script, by Jim Mercurio
  • Principles of Corporate Finance, by Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers, and Franklin Allen
  • The Crisis of Narration, by Byung-Chul Han
  • The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works, by John Truby
  • Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational Arc, by Dara Marks
  • Happy Are the Happy, by Yasmina Reza
  • Arachnophobia? How to Avoid Brown Recluse Spider Bites, by Tom Martincic
  • The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today, by Byung-Chul Han
  • Dynamic Symmetry in Composition: As Used by the Artists, by Jay Hambidge
  • Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting, by Robert McKee
  • The Plague of Fantasies, by Slavoj Žižek
  • American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
  • The Summit: Bretton Woods, 1944: J. M. Keynes and the Reshaping of the Global Economy, by Ed Conway

04 Movies

Four of my favorite films.

A personal shortlist shaped by character, rhythm, ambition, and form.