Chumy Chúmez

A quinceañera pretends to fall in love with David, the singer of the popular group Men G, and chases him to Acapulco. One night, she undresses and pounces on him, while a friend of her makes a few compromising photographs. The publication of these photos in a magazine leads David to pay a large sum and one year in prison, but the rest of the group discovers that Sonia and her friend are going to defraud actor Toni Canto and decide to prepare a trap for them

Carmen leaves her husband Julio to go live with an intellectual who has made a career in the United States. While, Julio goes away to live of rent to house of an aristocrat come to less. After meeting several colorful characters, Julio decides to recover Carmen.

Animation film based in some stories of the better illustrators and humorists of Spain during the democratic transition, on seventies: Chumy Chumez, Perich, Oscar, Ja, Fer, Ivà. They are quotidian stories about love, death, sex and violence.

With a title that expresses the connection/disagreement of bios (βίος) = life, and graphi (γραφή) = writing, this film of Rentzis has as a subject “the passage from homo universalis to homo industrialis”. Based on a visual material provided by the collage book of the Basque Chumy Chúmez, the film forms, out of cultural deposits of the industrial era, a novative oneirographic discourse, through the audacious and unprecendeded claim of a combinatorial optimization of collage/montage techno-poetics. Viewing the body as historical ideotype ‘the sublime point of reference, a matrix and a refusal of all signs’, Rentzis, dissects the body of film, makes an inter-parody of historical utopias and certainties and moves between animation and expanded cinema in order to reflect on the broader social, political question of our social coexistence condition, the unity and rupture.

Arturo, who has just turned 15, is in love with 13-year-old Paloma. In a moment of passion at a ski lodge while on a field trip to the mountains with their schoolmates, he gets her pregnant. Afraid of what may happen to them if their strict (but somewhat inattentive) parents or any of the rather straight-laced teachers at their Catholic school find out about the baby, Arturo and Paloma turn to their young friends and relatives for help instead. This proves to be something of a coming-of-age for everyone involved as they try to help the young couple get married, conceal the pregnancy from their parents, and prepare for the birth. The many adventures they have while doing this, while often amusing, help drive home to them that the old wives' tale about storks bringing babies is just a myth (hence the title), and pregnancy and childbirth are actually very serious matters.

Arturo, who has just turned 15, is in love with 13-year-old Paloma. In a moment of passion at a ski lodge while on a field trip to the mountains with their schoolmates, he gets her pregnant. Afraid of what may happen to them if their strict (but somewhat inattentive) parents or any of the rather straight-laced teachers at their Catholic school find out about the baby, Arturo and Paloma turn to their young friends and relatives for help instead. This proves to be something of a coming-of-age for everyone involved as they try to help the young couple get married, conceal the pregnancy from their parents, and prepare for the birth. The many adventures they have while doing this, while often amusing, help drive home to them that the old wives' tale about storks bringing babies is just a myth (hence the title), and pregnancy and childbirth are actually very serious matters.

Jesús, a runaway from a seminary, attends the auditions to join a pop music band; but he is not finally chosen, along with three other boys. But Alicia, a cheerful and enterprising girl, decides to create her own band with all of them.

Short film by the basque filmmaker Chumy Chúmez (José María González Castrillo).

The life and adventures of Pedro Becerra, a generous-hearted Andalusian bandit, and the account of his troubled love story with the beautiful Margarita…

The life and adventures of Pedro Becerra, a generous-hearted Andalusian bandit, and the account of his troubled love story with the beautiful Margarita…

The life and adventures of Pedro Becerra, a generous-hearted Andalusian bandit, and the account of his troubled love story with the beautiful Margarita…

Short documentary by the basque filmmaker Chumy Chúmez (José María González Castrillo).

Short documentary by the basque filmmaker Chumy Chúmez (José María González Castrillo).

Short docuemntary by the basque filmmaker Chumy Chúmez (José María González Castrillo).

Short documentary by the basque filmmaker Chumy Chúmez (José María González Castrillo).

Short documentary by the basque filmmaker Chumy Chúmez (José María González Castrillo).

Short documentary by the basque filmmaker Chumy Chúmez (José María González Castrillo).

Short film on the castles in Castilla (Spain)

A peculiar walk through the Basque city of San Sebastián along twisting roads never traveled by guidebook users.