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Isaki Lacuesta is a Spanish filmmaker from Catalonia, his work includes documentary film, narrative film and video art.
Filmmakers Isaki Lacuesta, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Gonzalo García Pelayo, Alba Sotorra, and photographers Isabel Muñoz, Castro Prieto, Díaz Burgos, and Ana Palacios explore their fears and how they affect their creative process, speaking directly to the camera, alone with the viewer.
The exhibition 'The Complete Letters' features epistolary works defined by cinematographic creation. This is an experimental communication format used between pairs of film directors. Although each director is situated in a location geographically distant from that of their partner, they are united by their willingness to share ideas and reflections on all that motivates their work. Within this space of freedom, the directors featured in the exhibition examine their affinities and differences, within an environment of mutual respect and simultaneity of interests and with notable formal variants established in each of the correspondences.
Fiction inspired by the novelistic biography of the painter and writer Francois Augiéras. The artist covered with paints a military bunker in the desert, and let it sink into the sand so no one could find it until the XXI century. The search continues to feed the myth bunker ... Who is Augiéras? ¿Legionnaire, painter, writer, gunman, holy, thief, devil or a mixture of all?
A documentary/fiction mix inspired by the flamenco singer Camarón.
Like so many other actors, Ava Gardner hated to watch her films. She said that the woman on the screen wasn't her. But all films tell two stories: the plot and the tale of the bodies filmed. This film narrates what happened between two images: a first shot of 'Pandora' and a first shot of 'Harem', the first and last movie filmed by the actress in Spain. Ava must certainly have thought that neither of these two women had anything in common with herself.
Isaki Lacuesta documentary conceived in collaboration with painter Miquel Barceló. The artist, who lives long periods in Africa, has learned to paint from termites and scorpions, adapting to the conditions of a wild environment. Lacuesta enters the African workshop and film performance Barceló "Pasodoble" represented in the village of Gogolí (Mali). The arrival of the film crew revolutionize the village and arouse the curiosity of their people.
In 1918, the poet and boxer Arthur Cravan disappears in the Gulf of Mexico without a trace. Today, another boxer and artist, film director Frank Nicotra, begins an investigation that will take you behind the mysterious steps Cravan from Switzerland to Mexico, passing through Paris, London and Barcelona.
"If Isaki Lacuesta wants to use some of my footage, that's ok by me, at the end of the day, I have spent my life copying others" (Chris Marker). An act of cinematic love for the director of La Jetée. "To shoot under the pseudonym Chris Marker, you need to fulfill a few requirements, some very strange. The Markers are a secret sect who meet up only once a year... And cameras are forbidden at the meeting".