José Luis Guerín

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José Luis Guerín

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Uno sguardo alla Terra
1h 40m
Movie 2018

Uno sguardo alla Terra

Sardinia 2017. The starting point for the film is one of the most loved lands in the Mediterranean, using it to enter into the world of cinema. Ten international masters of cinema explain Fiorenzo Serra's images, one of the greatest post-war Italian documentary makers. His masterpiece, "The last punch of Earth", will be analyzed and debated, a film which examined Italian change and European reflection.

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
1h 51m
Movie 2011

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin

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

Déconstruction
0h 28m
Movie 2009

Déconstruction

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 all sorts of fragments: images in Barcelona (in 2008/9) that echo images of the older film; images of making films (Hanoun's own, Boris Lehman's; other friends'); images of a storm in Biarritz; fragments of conversations...

Biography

José Luis Guerín (born 1960) is a Spanish filmmaker and educator, known for his meditative  and intellectually curious  work in both documentary and narrative filmmaking. Describing Guerin in an introduction to a series of his films, the programmers of the Harvard Film Archive wrote: "Guerín's films purposefully confound narrative and documentary traditions, discovering rich narrative threads woven into the tapestries of his real life subjects and unraveling mysteries without solutions that nevertheless leave the viewer deeply satisfied." Description above from the Wikipedia article José Luis Guerín, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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