Luis López Carrasco
Luis LÓPEZ CARRASCO (1981, Spain) is a filmmaker, writer and visual artist. In 2008, he founded the collective Los Hijos with Javier Fernández Vázquez and Natalia Marín Sancho. The collective’s first feature film, Los materiales, was chosen by the Spanish Cahiers du cinema as one of the ten best ‘invisible’ films of 2010. In 2013, López Carrasco released El futuro, the first feature he made independently. Aliens (2017) premiered at the Locarno Film Festival.
Filmography
Para ser cajera del súper siempre hay tiempo (2007, short), El sol en el sol del membrillo/The Sun on the Quince of the Sun (2008, short, co-dir), Ya viene, aguanta, riégueme, mátame/It’s Coming, Hold On, Spray Me, Kill Me (2009, short, co-dir) Los materiales (2010, doc, co-dir), Circo/Circus (2009, doc, co-dir), Tarde de verano/Summer Afternoon (2010, short, co-dir), Evacuación/Evacuation (2011, short, co-dir), Enero, 2012 (ó la apoteosis de Isabel la Católica)/January, 2012 (Or the Apotheosis of Isabel the Catholic) (2012, co-dir), El futuro/The Future (2013), Árboles (2013, co-dir), Fuente grande (2016, short), Aliens (2017, short), El año del descubrimiento/The Year of the Discovery (2020)
Luis López Carrasco op IFFR
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El futuro
Luis López Carrasco | 68' | Spain | None
Back to the Future, Spain 1982: at a euphoric party, young people celebrate the election victory of the Socialist Party. López Carrasco stages -
El año del descubrimiento
Luis López Carrasco | 200' | Spain | World premiere
Seemingly incidental conversations in a bar in Cartagena, Spain, expose an almost forgotten piece of social history. -
Aliens
Luis López Carrasco | 23' | Spain | None
Tesa Arranz, a key figure in the 1980s Madrid scene and the lead singer of The Zombies, has painted over 500 portraits of outer-space creatures.