Santiago Aguilar

Biography

Santiago Aguilar worked as a documentalist at the Filmoteca Española between 1985 and 1995 and has since continued to collaborate with the institution as a researcher. In collaboration with Felipe Cabrerizo, he has undertaken various works related to 20th century Spanish and South European cinema and popular culture. He has written books and articles on little known aspects of the history of Spanish cinema — for example, Operación Torremolinos: El cine español de superagentes (1965-1967) and Sagitario Films, oro nazi para el cine español (winner of the Muñoz Suay award from the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), both published in 2021, and Cinefotocolor, el color de la autarquía, published in 2022 — and gives classes in the Archive program of the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian, Spain.