
José Luis Guerín
Directing
Biography
José Luis Guerín (born 1960) is a Spanish filmmaker and educator, known for his meditative and intellectually curious work in both documentary and narrative filmmaking. Describing Guerin in an introduction to a series of his films, the programmers of the Harvard Film Archive wrote: "Guerín'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." Description above from the Wikipedia article José Luis Guerín, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

In a peripheral neighbourhood, where the rural and urban worlds meet, the houses of the first migrants who arrived after the post-war period coexist with the new blocks of the dormitory city, where the latest wave of migration is concentrated. This humble corner is now an authentic global village. Good Valley Stories is a sum of constructs, of social, generational and identity, urban and ecological conflicts, but it is also a calm and humanistic look at today’s world.
Good Valley Stories

Memories of neighbors surrounding a violinist who committed suicide naked. Journey to the jungles of Guyana and Suriname in South America, chasing down the infamous gold miners. A sequel to 'Mauris Barres', directed by Jean-Marie Straub, wandering around Mont Saint-Eudil. Jean-Marie Straub, a ‘fighter’ of modern cinema, who explores the physical properties of movies; Claire Denis, an ‘adventurer’ who crosses boundaries and encounters others; Jose, the ‘walker’ who discovers the mysteries of life with the attitude of an essayist Louis Guerin's original cinematic world.
A Traveler's Memory: Jeonju Digital Project 2011

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La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges is a wonderfully humane and sincere portrayal of the people that he meets when he goes off the beaten track in some of the world's major cities.
Guest

Experimental silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s.
Train of Shadows

A kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world.
City Life

Sardinia 2017. The starting point for the film is one of the most loved lands in the Mediterranean, using it to enter into the world of cinema. Ten international masters of cinema explain Fiorenzo Serra's images, one of the greatest post-war Italian documentary makers. His masterpiece, "The last punch of Earth", will be analyzed and debated, a film which examined Italian change and European reflection.
Uno sguardo alla Terra

An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.
Work in Progress

The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man.
Berta's Motives

A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier.
In the City of Sylvia

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Mujer esperando al tranvía

On returning from class, a teacher is questioned by his wife, who distrusts his pedagogic project: an “Academy of the Muses” inspired by classical references, which is supposed to contribute to regenerating the world through poetry. The controversial project triggers a series of situations dominated by words and desire.
The Academy of Muses

Documentary tribute to "The Quiet Man" by John Ford. A special tribute that, away from traditional documentary, traces the outline of a cinematographic work of other person and offers a portrait of a society that fascinates the director.
Innisfree
The short film is like a journal page of film making. On making a film (in 1966) in Barcelona. On assembling together surviving fragments of the film, but not as a vestige of something for ever lost, but rather an occasion for making a new film of all sorts of fragments: images in Barcelona (in 2008/9) that echo images of the older film; images of making films (Hanoun's own, Boris Lehman's; other friends'); images of a storm in Biarritz; fragments of conversations...
Déconstruction

This remarkable companion piece to In the City of Sylvia offers a compendium of images recorded by Guerín in Strasbourg while searching for the traces of a (fictional?) brief encounter some years earlier with a young woman named Sylvia.
Some Photos in the City of Sylvia

In the Mediterranean port of Barcelona two young unemployed girls living in a renovation area drift around the city desperately looking for a job.
Eulalia-Marta
A medium-length film that takes the central place in the video installation "The Lady of Corinth". In both the medium-length film and the installation, Guerin delves into the relationship between cinema and painting based on Pliny the Elder's account of the invention of painting.
Two Letters for Ana

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin

Train Strausbourg–Paris primarily consists of Guerin’s earlier, preliminary attempt at filming the elements of a scene that appears in In the City of Sylvia.
Train Strasbourg-Paris

A Ryokan, by José Luis Guerin to complete the #YoMeQuedoEnCasa cycle. After twenty-one clips over three months, we close the cycle with a jewel that this Embassy is proud to have commissioned. (Embajada de España en Japón)