Manuel Huerga

Manuel Huerga

Birth : 1957-10-20, Barcelona, Spain

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Manuel Huerga (born 20 October 1957) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film Salvador was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Manuel Huerga

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Velvet Suite
Director
From https://www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/the-velvet-suite/: "Velvet Suite is a 38 min. documentary of a concert event of the same name he recently staged with Lee Ranaldo and others interpreting the music of the Velvet Underground before a live audience in Spain. Ignacio Julia is a filmmaker and writer who published the book Linger On: The Velvet Underground through Thurston and Eva Moore’s imprint Ecstatic Peace Library. Ignacio is the editor of Spain’s Ruta 66 and the author of several music books."
The Power of Silence
Director
Prades, France, 1940s. The exiled Catalan cellist Pau Casals decides not to perform any more in public until the fall of the dictatorship that oppresses Spain. Pierre, a young Frenchman studying with Casals, tries to convince him to celebrate an extraordinary concert as a tribute to freedom.
Cervantes versus Lope
Director
Mockumentary about the confrontation between Miguel de Cervantes and Lope de Vega around the apocryphal second part of the Quijote signed by Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda. It also tells the relations of other writers and influent persons on the Spanish Golden Age.
Barcelona, la rosa de foc
Writer
The many faces of Barcelona are portrayed in this documentary, shot in a false sequence shot that goes across the streets, squares, markets and bars of a city that is presented as both conventional and law-breaking, exquisit and shameless, elegant and dispossessed.
Barcelona, la rosa de foc
Director
The many faces of Barcelona are portrayed in this documentary, shot in a false sequence shot that goes across the streets, squares, markets and bars of a city that is presented as both conventional and law-breaking, exquisit and shameless, elegant and dispossessed.
Pepe & Rubianes
Director
On January 12, 2011, on a floor of Paseo de Gracia, a group of friends who knew him best and who call themselves "Rubianes Widows" meet (as they usually do from time to time) for dinner and remember how was Pepe, his unusual personality, good (and bad) moments shared, anecdotes, traits that best define the Spain.
14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys
Director
"14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys "is a television drama, allegedly recorded in 1932, but with the methods, style and own means 2010. With this temporary license, the stars of one of the episodes of the Catalan capital twentieth century discussed the facts, in first person, while a nosy camera helps us to relive what happened in Barcelona between 14 and 17 April 1931, the three-day duration of the Catalan Republic. All with the aim of showing the greatness and the precariousness of a gesture, half improvised by Companys key sovereigntist corrected by Macià, and that led to a shouting match.
Operacion Malaya
Director
Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español
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. Spanish experimental cinema can be glimpsed in a series of important yet isolated events that FRAGMENTS compiles through various firsthand accounts, film excerpts and documents. For the first time in Spain, a documentary brings together the most relevant of a cinema that is slowly losing its invisibility.
Son & Moon: diario de un astronauta
Director
This Very Instant
Editor
Jorge Drexler undertakes a short tour in late 2007.
This Very Instant
Director
Jorge Drexler undertakes a short tour in late 2007.
Y el cine marcha
Director
Salvador (Puig Antich)
Director
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
Antártida
Director
A rock star falls in love with a common pickpocket without any personal history. But soon she finds herself in a contraband of drugs and both try to escape it.
Buñuel
Director
Analysis of the work of Luis Buñuel in fifty mini chapters. A co-production of Arsenal Films, Barcelona International Film Festival and Ovideo TV in collaboration with the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP). The film won the 1st Prize at the European Biennial for the Conservation of European Cultural Heritage.
Brutal Ardour
Writer
Experimental film by Manuel Huerga.
Brutal Ardour
Director
Experimental film by Manuel Huerga.
Hic Digitur Dei
A decadent musical set in the last days of Franco's dictatorship.
Un dia de classe
Director