Movies: Javier Aguirre

Documentary about the popular celebrations of Holy Week throughout Spain....

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Homage to the artist Antoni Tàpies...

"I consider that Espacio dos and Tiempo dos must be considered as important works . Moreover, I affirm that, together with Tierra sin pan and Cuenca, it is the only truly important thing that has been done in Spain within the documentary genre." Javi...

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In 2022, the original negative of the film Javier Aguirre created in 1973 was found. It had never been shown, due to the threat of censorship, which had already targeted his short film Che Che Che. Aguirre himself had written in the label Manifiesto ...

Documentary about the consequences of a fire in a town in Segovia, Turégano (Spain)....

Vizcaya seen from four different points of view: the sea, the countryside, the industry and the landscape. Each of the aspects is treated plastic and dynamically in a different way: black and white, sepia, negative and color. Music also establishes f...

"It's a perfect movie. Apart from the beautiful in the purely plastic, there is an inspired poetic creation in each of the planes and in their intelligent conjunction. And it has mystery. and continually play with the surprise factor. You never know ...

"Tiempo dos is a melancholic and sad movie. Soft gray and poetically evocative. It is made with the heart. It has purity, it denotes clarity and is sharp and concise. The image that most remains me is that of the old-fashioned photographic apparatus ...

"The universe is rotary, circular, spherical, round ... / ... The street of our planet = three dimensions. The kinetic = Two dimensions. Analogous to the real, to the law of Universal gravitation." Maruja Mallo...

In the sixties, just before starting his career as a feature film director and his parallel career of the Anticine, Javier Aguirre had a brief career as a documentary filmmaker, which served him to test and rehearse many procedures that he would put ...

"Toros tres as Pasajes tres, also bases his visual game on a counterpoint. Toros de Guisando, Goya, Picasso, in a way, they come to tell the story of the people who have been contemplating them through the centuries ... / ... I would say that more th...

On the sculptural work of the Austrian Günter Häese based on objects that vibrate at the slightest breath. The works of this artist allude to the natural elements of air, fire, water and earth, which is why abstract images, in negative, of the four e...

An approach to the role of women in bullfighting....

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Homage to the basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida....

One of our part of the sculptural and pictorial work of Gerardo Rueda, they inspire sequences of different and opposite times, from the slow camera movements with which wooden constructions are treated to the liveliness of the rhythms achieved with b...