
Velasco Broca
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Biography
César Velasco Broca (born 1978) is a Spanish cult filmmaker. He was born in Amurrio, province of Álava. He earned a licentiate degree in audiovisual communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. In addition to his film works, he has also worked as a lecturer on Film Aesthetics at the ECAM.
Known For

After ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. The few remaining souls are scattered about, living in misery and lacking hope. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one particularly starry night, two peasants find a stranger on the seashore.
The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

On a summer break, Mia and her friends try a meditation app that’s somehow related to the operating system of the Tallinn Zoo, changing the body chemistry of its users into something between pollen and cosmic dust. Mia will need to choose between saving her friends or joining them.
Infinite Summer

CIA agents Palmer and Gagano are tasked with the perilous mission of destroying “The Soviet Union!" As they enter the system using a VR simulation, their mission quickly turns into a delirious trap, far more complex than expected, as the fabric of reality starts unraveling around them.
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway

A mild-mannered man journeys across a post-apocalyptic landscape in search of answers regarding a derelict spaceship hovering in the sky.
Crumbs

A woman enters a restaurant one morning – only to be met with silence instead of people talking.
7:35 in the Morning

The story tells of an extraterrestrial invasion in which the aliens kidnap bodybuilders for reasons that escape our understanding.
Avant Pétalos Grillados

At the beginning of the 20th century, a series of Gnostic spells perpetrated in India affected a Spanish priest, ending his honor and his life and cursing his offspring forever. Harassed by this spell, his great-great grandson, also a priest, is forced to flee from the town to the capital and from there to a cathedral submerged in the depths of the ocean. Black magicians, delinquents, insects, archons and even Satan himself will be some of the sinister characters he will have to face in order to succeed in his evangelizing adventure.
Ayudar al ojo humano

Hadji, a young man living humbly on the banks of the Ganges River and in desperate straits after losing all his possessions, is accepted as a disciple by a mysterious spiritual guide.
Our Friend the Moon
Velasco Broca directed "La Costra Láctea" in 2002, as the result of an institutional assignment to develop a sexual education video for teenagers. The film, mixing fokloric Spain with fetishism and aliens, was ultimately not approved as educational material and ended up being broadcast in TVE's La 2, in the show Versión Española, with Bigas Luna's feature "Bilbao".
Der Milchshorf: La Costra Láctea
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Emetreinta
Velasco Broca directed "La Costra Láctea" as the result of an institutional assignment to develop a sexual education video for teenagers. The film, mixing fokloric Spain with fetishism and aliens, was ultimately not approved as educational material and ended up being broadcast in TVE's La 2, in the show Versión Española, with Bigas Luna's feature "Bilbao".
La costra lacteal

Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of “the other” Spanish Cinema — films that brazenly explored their artistic, poetic and conceptual potential. Spanish experimental cinema can be glimpsed in a series of important yet isolated events that FRAGMENTS compiles through various firsthand accounts, film excerpts and documents. For the first time in Spain, a documentary brings together the most relevant of a cinema that is slowly losing its invisibility.
Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español

Damián subsists on his meagre income, existing more than living. When he receives news that his father has died, he returns to Ferrol, his hometown, which he has stayed away from for over two decades. No sooner has he arrived than he finds himself the subject of mistaken identity and his fate is now entwined with another whose destiny is predetermined.
The Rim

Ion used to live in Berlin. He lived there with his girlfriend Marta. He had two cameras, a 16 mm one and a video tape one. Ion used to record everything in his little universe: his room, his friends, his girlfriend, the restaurant he used to work in, his tattoos and the city landscape. One day, though, Marta left him. Now, he shoots the same spaces, but without her presence. The house is empty. A personal portrait of a city and a separation.
True Love

Tells the story, through surrealist and oniric images, of an alien invasion that feeds on spanish children.
Kinky Hoodoo Voodoo
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El futuro testamento
Pilot episode for a tv show that never got made, adapting César Velasco Broca's homonymous comic book.
Las aventuras galácticas de Jaime de Funes y Arancha

Experimental filmmaker Velasco Broca catapults an ophthalmologist into a hellish purgatory populated by grotesque creatures and devils.
Alegrías Riojanas
Filmed on Super-8, Footsy is César Velasco Broca's first short, in which he explores the fetishistic obsessions of a socially repressed man.
Footsy

Between July and October 2009, filmmaker led and recorded meetings of former partners and their respective current partners in Berlin, Barcelona and Madrid.