
Marc Hurtado
Directing
Biography
« Throughout my career as a filmmaker and musician, I have always strived to combine image and sound like a sculptor who mixes earth and water: these two distinct elements must form a third living matter which is the body of the film. My research is really done in the sense of an incarnation: it is the poetry that takes shape through the treatment of the image and its vital relationship to sound. It is through this alchemical and magical way that I aim to bring an interior, spiritual and cosmic experience to live in my films. » Marc Hurtado
Known For

My Lover the Killer is the former title of the album by Lydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado released in 2016. The music, first languorous then abrasive, accompanies the verbal flow of the transgressive poetess who comes back to an intimate and violently tragic episode of her own life: her love and death story with Johnny O’Kane. With her long-time collaborator, Lydia Lunch, face to face with the camera, transforms this naked scene full of troubled anger into a deep dark confession. Hurtado’s images are saturated, grainy, willingly experimental and clash with those of an archive of furious performances. Just like the one who seeks to avoid taking part in her own prophecy.
My Lover The Killer

Malga Kubiak stars in her exploration of sex and self. One woman's love to her own body interlaced with maggots; mixes x-rated porn. Voyeuristically titillating this avant-garde study of horrors of sex.
Baby Trouble Hole

The confrontation of reality and dream.
imagenaction

A portrait of Alan Vega as painter, drawer and sculptor of light
The Infinite Mercy Film

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L'Autre Rive

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Des autres terres souples

An 8mm short film directed by Marc Hurtado.
Blanche

«The sun, the sea, the heart and the stars / Dawn Aurora Light Heat / The heart serves the body / The spirit dominates the star»
Le soleil, la mer, le cœur et les étoiles

To describe the events spreading out in Aurore, in Royaume and in Bleu, suitable tools still have to be found ; up until now, nothing much has been said or done about a cinema that quite specifically deals with picture as a sensation. Then one can always attempt, as plainly as possible, to draw a few lines, trying to single out a few dimensions, a few questions, a few perspectives that run through these films and relate them to the history of pictures and cinema.
Aurore

Total force, total speed, to caress infinity, to transcend flesh.
Raw Power

In Jajouka, a village nestled in Morocco’s Rif mountains, magic rites accompanied by a peculiar music performed by “the Master Musicians of Jajouka” (a brotherhood of musicians) are commonplace. Acclaimed musicians Eric and Marc Hurtado, founders of the group Etant Donnés, explore these rituals and legends in fascinating complicity with the master musicians and other villagers of Jajouka. Weaving documentary and fiction, the Hurtados eschew an investigation of the healing power and spiritual transcendence of Jajouka; instead, they have created a film so riveting and poetic that it transposes the experience of trance and emotional release onto the viewer. In Arabic, French; English subtitles. 59 min.
Jajouka, Something Good Comes to You

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Saturn Drive Duplex Redux

Marc Hurtado's film for a song titled UNIS by Amato Hurtado. Track from the Benefit CD Tribute to Genesis P-Orridge.
Unis

Directed early 2018 in the south of France with young woodworkers
Monde

To describe the events spreading out in Aurore, in Royaume and in Bleu, suitable tools still have to be found ; up until now, nothing much has been said or done about a cinema that quite specifically deals with picture as a sensation. Then one can always attempt, as plainly as possible, to draw a few lines, trying to single out a few dimensions, a few questions, a few perspectives that run through these films and relate them to the history of pictures and cinema.
Bleu

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Saturn Drive Duplex
Part of the collective film OUTRAGE & REBELLION & inspired by the police repression of a protest in Montreuil where Joachim Gatti lost one of his eyes. CIEL TERRE CIEL can be defined as the poetic identification of this loss.
Ciel Terre Ciel

Like a leap into the abyss of your flesh / Like a cry in the fire / Like a shattering mirror / Like a leap into the light.
The Jump

A poignant testimony of Alan Vega filmed in a New York Hospital
Saturn Drive

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