Pere Portabella & La Escuela de Barcelona
Overview of films
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Acteón
Jorge Grau | 75' | Spain | None
A modern(ist) take on the story of Actaeon who saw the goddess Diana nude, for which she turned him into a stag that would soon… -
Aoom
Gonzalo Suarez | 72' | Spain | None
An aging actor transfers his soul into a doll to escape the boredom and the triteness of leisure. His assistant soon gets irritated by this… -
Autour des salines
Jacinto Esteva Grewe | 22' | Spain | None
Life in a rural area where the sole source of income is the physically gruelling labour of salt mining. A composed, spectacular work of anger… -
BiBiCi Story
Carlos Durán | 15' | Spain | None
Scenes from the modern world – and why it must fall apart, despite its beauties. A true gem: a pop-art agit film. Screens before Después… -
Cabezas cortadas
Glauber Rocha | 94' | Spain | None
An evil king, an oppressed people, a messianic shepherd: a nightmare, what else? A cinematic delirium, feverish dream, audiovisual exorcism whose alle -
Cada vez que…
Carlos Durán | 85' | Spain | None
A free-wheeling caprice featuring beautiful people in situations from life in a world we call modern and developed. A fascinating and enchanting work, -
Circles
Ricardo Bofill | 23' | Spain | None
A meditation on man’s loss of contact with nature in the modern world and its consequences – maybe. An early short by one of modern… -
Dante no es únicamente severo
Joaquim Jordà, Jacinto Esteva Grewe | 78' | Spain | None
A beautiful woman tells one story after another, not all of which have an end and few have anything to do with one another –… -
Después del diluvio
Jacinto Esteva Grewe | 80' | Spain | None
One woman, two men – and none of the melodrama one might expect. In fact, the film’s true drama is in its colours: how everything… -
Ditirambo vela por nosotros
Gonzalo Suarez | 26' | Spain | None
Ditirambo – patient man of action, truth-sayer and conscientious objector to smiling – always solves his case, whatever it is. A paean to the virtues -
Ditirambo
Gonzalo Suarez | 103' | Spain | None
One day, a woman comes to Ditirambo with a job: He must search for one of her dead husband’s lovers and deliver her to her… -
Esquizo
Ricardo Bofill | 80' | Spain | None
“A fiction reportage about the architecture of a brain”, as the subtitle has it. An essay of sorts based on scientific as well as sociological…