Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español Trailer
Born in Terrassa, in Cataluña, in 1937. A key figure in Catalán avant-garde cinema, contemporary with but not a part of the Barcelona School. He self-funded his early films from his job at a bank, leading to the production of two feature-length films and 11 shorts.
Total trailers found: 14
16 September 1970
A short film about a mysterious ceremony, based on an essay by William S. Burroughs.
24 May 2010
Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of “the other” Spanish Cinema — films that brazenly explored their artistic, poetic and conceptual potential.
01 January 1986
Spanish actress María de Montenegro marries a Nazi officer, von Herzig, in Berlin during World War II, and years later is forced to return to Barcelona.
01 January 1973
An allegory of political oppression under Franco, with a plot alternating between narrative sequences and dream-like moments styled after the Spanish avant garde.
01 January 1971
Short film that addresses family repression through the bond between a brother and a sister in which the stronger takes advantage of the weaker.
01 January 1972
Short film based on a real news item in which a student from Ohio was sentenced to spend three hours in a pigsty to learn to differentiate between a pig and a policeman.
01 January 1969
Daphnis and Chloe wander through a forest, intercut with shots of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and following no clear chronological trajectory, in a questioning of sexual roles and the permissible standards of Franco-era cinema.
01 January 1971
A tragedy that does not avoid irony while showing a couple in a romantically disastrous state.
16 September 1970
Short film dedicated to the "established order" (yet made clearly outside of it) and drawing from the protests of 1968 and the struggle for socialist revolution, it also challenges the Catholicism and nationalism of Franco's Spain.
01 January 2012
A narrative in the form of a Christmas story filled with repetitions, the specific routines of a precise man, in which the visit of death is part of the specular game.
01 January 1976
A humorously distorted version of the life of Shirley Temple, and described by its director as a terrorist musical.
01 January 1969
(Very) loosely based on Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, with a soundtrack partly from Cream and Tuli Kupferberg, and shot in the cemetery of Terrassa, this film presents a protest of American imperialism and the Vietnam War.
