Signals: Agustí Villaronga
Overview of films
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El mar
Raw, surrealist, homoerotic and sometimes violent melodrama – a highlight of Villaronga’s oeuvre. Mallorca 1936: a mass execution by fa
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Tras el cristal
Villaronga’s legendary film debut from 1987 is controversial and has lost nothing of its power. To those unafraid, it provides an insight int
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El niño de la luna
Fantasy film that delights the eye. The moon-child is a blonde orphan during the Interbellum, who believes that he has been chosen to fulfil an anc
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99.9
After the mysterious death of her ex-boyfriend, a radio presenter is troubled by the paranormal. Villaronga was brought in as the director and gave
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Anta mujer
Surreal, allegorical short film about the Woman and the Sea, set to the music of Carl Orff.
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Miquel Bauçà: poeta invisible
Bauçà (1940-2005) was a radical poet and author, contrary and unclassifiable. Ideal for Villaronga in other words. A documentary done as a feature
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Fuck Them All
Music video for singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer, in Villaronga’s signature style. Production design by Martial Leiter. Screened before After
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Al-Andalus: las artes islámicas en España
Commissioned for Al-Andalus: the Art of Islamic Spain exhibition at the Alhambra and the MoMA. Much more extravagant than it sounds.
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El passatger clandestí
Simenon story with Simon Callow, Bruno Todeschini and Mercè Pons. Generally seen as a less successful Villaronga, but this commissioned work –
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Després de la pluja
A select group of actors (Marisa Paredes, Alex Brendemühl) worked on this television version of a Catalan play, about the desire for death and othe
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Pa negre
Accomplished, engrossing film about the loss of innocence set in a polarised, post-war Catalan countryside. Based on a novel, but nevertheless perf
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Pedagogía aplicada
Part of the TV series Cròniques de la veritat oculta. A type of Catalan kitchen sink drama with melancholy truths, presented in a joyous, exalted m