Audiences never have a lukewarm opinion of a Subiela film. They either love it passionately or hate it profoundly. The fact that Eliseo Subiela (Buenos Aires, 1944-2016), an original and sensitive thinker, survived, and indeed, thrived in economically challenged Argentina while garnering more accolades abroad than in his own country, is a tribute to his grit, intelligence, imagination and persistence of vision. One has only to peruse his astounding list of prizes and honors to realize he was a world-class auteur. Even when he was making a TV commercial, his surreal style and sensibility were unmistakable. This book represents the culmination of 20 years of research and personal correspondence with Eliseo Subiela. Through ten scholarly studies and five interviews, it sheds light on Eliseo Subiela's life, aestheticsm, obsessions, struggles with madness, and, of course, his films. It addresses questions about his earlier career in advertising, life-long artistic influences, screenwriting techniques, critical reactions to his films, and what Subiela's example has to offer aspiring filmmakers, especially those in Latin America.