José Luis GuerÃn
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Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
José Luis GuerÃn (born 1960) is a Spanish filmmaker and educator.
Style and influences
As a young cinephile, GuerÃn attended many film screenings, made films on Super 8 and 16mm[1] and sought out and befriended many of the filmmakers he admired, including Robert Bresson,[2] Raoul Ruiz[2] and Philippe Garrel.[2] GuerÃn's films are often described as being influenced by the Lumière Brothers,[2] Howard Hawks,[2] Yasujiro Ozu[1] and John Ford (GuerÃn went so far as to shoot a film in Innisfree, the setting of Ford's The Quiet Man).
GuerÃn is known for his meditative[2] and intellectually curious[1][2] work in both documentary and narrative filmmaking. Describing GuerÃn in an introduction to a series of his films, the programmers of the Harvard Film Archive wrote: "GuerÃn'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."[2]
Filmography
- Berta's Motives (1985)
- City Life (1990)
- Innisfree (1990)
- Tren de sombras (1997)
- En construcción (2001)
- Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia (2007)
- In the City of Sylvia (2007)
- Guest (2010)
- Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J. L. Guerin (2011)
- L’Accademia delle muse (2015)
Awards
His film Under Construction (En construcción) won the Special Prize of the Jury in the San Sebastián Film Festival in 2001 and the Goya Prize as Best Documentary in 2002.
References
- 1 2 3 "24 Fps Magazine: Interview with Guerin by Gabe Klinger". Archived from the original on July 19, 2008.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "José Luis GuerÃn". Harvard Film Archive.
External links
José Luis GuerÃn at the Internet Movie Database
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