Movies: José Luis Guerín

A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier....

Experimental silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s....

The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man....

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges is a wonderfully humane and sincere portrayal of the people that he meets when he goes off the beat...

Utilizing the impressionistic techniques of IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA (if SYLVIA was a riff on the “city film,” the more miniaturized MEMORIES might be termed a “street-corner film”), Guerín uses a disturbing incident in his Barcelona neighborhood to thr...

On returning from class, a teacher is questioned by his wife, who distrusts his pedagogic project: an “Academy of the Muses” inspired by classical references, which is supposed to contribute to regenerating the world through poetry. The controversia...

In Saint-Louis Cathedral, at La Rochelle, in a chapel filled with merchant marine ex-votos, there’s a painting that witnesses the tragedy of The Saphir in 1741. This schooner was becalmed for days and days in inter-tropical waters, with 271 slaves an...

Memories of neighbors surrounding a violinist who committed suicide naked. Journey to the jungles of Guyana and Suriname in South America, chasing down the infamous gold miners. A sequel to 'Mauris Barres', directed by Jean-Marie Straub, wandering ar...

This remarkable companion piece to In the City of Sylvia offers a compendium of images recorded by Guerín in Strasbourg while searching for the traces of a (fictional?) brief encounter some years earlier with a young woman named Sylvia....

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas....

An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona....

Documentary tribute to "The Quiet Man" by John Ford. A special tribute that, away from traditional documentary, traces the outline of a cinematographic work of other person and offers a portrait of a society that fascinates the director....

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A medium-length film that takes the central place in the video installation "The Lady of Corinth". In both the medium-length film and the installation, Guerin delves into the relationship between cinema and painting based on Pliny the Elder's account...

A poetic approach to the island of Lanzarote....

The short film is like a journal page of film making. On making a film (in 1966) in Barcelona. On assembling together surviving fragments of the film, but not as a vestige of something for ever lost, but rather an occasion for making a new film of al...

José Luis Guerín's great short film from 1986....

Collection of documentary shorts by various acclaimed directors...

A Ryokan, by José Luis Guerin to complete the #YoMeQuedoEnCasa cycle. After twenty-one clips over three months, we close the cycle with a jewel that this Embassy is proud to have commissioned. (Embajada de España en Japón)...