Carles Santos

Constel·lació Portabella (2024)

Constel·lació Portabella traces the exciting life of the great Catalan film director and artist Pere Portabella , which traverses the cultural and political history of the country and the last seventy years, letting us be carried away by the passion, the ...

Blink (2013)

Lucio is an introverted boy who spends his nights dreaming of Greta. Little by little, he begins to prefer to spend his time dreaming, escaping reality and sharing his time with Greta and a mysterious knight. ...

Els passos perduts (2010)

The Silence Before Bach (2007)

A beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach's music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked 'dramatic' scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, ...

No al no: Visca el piano! (2006)

Carles Santos plays several of his pieces on the piano. This film was made for the exhibit on Carles Santos Visca el piano! held at the Miro Foundation in the summer of 2006. ...

The Tempest (2003)

Naked bodies are buffeted by water accompanied by the music Il Temporale from the opera La Cenerentola and the overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia both by Gioacchino Rossini. ...

The Pianist (1998)

This music-themed drama is set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past, where the you ...

Chronicles of the Hidden Truth (1997)

An adaptation of the short story collection by Pere Calders. ...

Art a Catalunya (1992)

An itinerary through the great creations of Catalan art: Romanesque, Gothic, Modernist and Contemporary; with interviews to Catalan creators such as architect Ricardo Bofill, poet Pere Gimferrer, sculptor Susana Solano, and painter Antoni Tàpies. ...

Warsaw Bridge (1990)

A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor--three characters, two couples--attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just won the prize for his book "Warsaw Bridge." The winner answers the journalist's questions one after another ...

És quan dormo que hi veig clar (1988)

Pa d’àngel (1984)

Barcelona, 1983. Agustí Martorell is a left-wing lawyer, atheist and former anti-Franco fighter, who discovers that his 15-year-old daughter Esther, influenced by the optional religion classes of Mossèn Parcerisas, a progressive priest and post-councillo ...

Barcelona sur (1981)

Obsessed with finding her old boyfriend, Gumer, a 25-year-old girl, is released from jail in Barcelona, one of Europe's most sought-after port cities for drug trafficking and prostitution. Charo, her best friend, tries to help her, although she is not free ...

Jet Lag (1981)

Elena, a depressed young Catalan translator, discovers that David, her former lover, is living in New York with a new girlfriend, where she will travel to obsessively look for him and try to win him back. ...

Laberint (1980)

An interpretation of the eponymous painting by Antoni Tàpies featuring dancers from the Heura-company and a minimalist score composed by a modern musical phenomenon, the incomparable Carles Santos. ...

LA, RE, MI, LA (1979)

Carles Santos, at the piano, plays the notes that make up the title 74 times, dressed up and disguised as that many characters. ...

General Report (1977)

How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition, only a few months after General Franco's death, when the sincere democratic vocation of Spanish people must ...

La oscura historia de la prima Montse (1977)

Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker. ...

Acció Santos (1973)

The film is divided into two antithetical segments ‒ The first is made up of a couple of fixed shots of the pianist, Carles Santos, playing Chopin's Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op.45. The second segment shows him listening to this own recording from a loud ...

Vampir Cuadecuc (1972)

An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction and reality. ...

Umbracle (1972)

This film turns on two basic axes: the inquiry into ways of cinematographic representation and a critical image of official Spain at the time of the Franco dictatorship. "Montage of attractions" and Brechtianism in strong doses. Umbracle is made up of frag ...

Play Back (1970)

Short film by Spanish/Catalan film maker Pere Portabella. ...

Nocturne 29 (1969)

Portabella's first feature, co-scripted by poet Joan Brossa, became one of the most influential works of the Barcelona avant-garde, although like all his early films, it circulated only in an underground fashion. Eschewing dialogue, the director constructs ...

Miró, l’altre (1969)

As publicity for the exhibit Miró L'altre, organized by the Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya in 1969, the Board commissioned Pere Portabella to film Miró painting the "poster" for the exhibit on the ground floor windows of the building. Portabella was ...

Conversa (1967)

1967 short film from Spain ...

L'Espectador (1967)

1967 short by Carles Santos ...

Habitació am rellotge (1967)

1967 short by Carles Santos ...

Constel·lació Portabella (2024)

Constel·lació Portabella traces the exciting life of the great Catalan film director and artist Pere Portabella , which traverses the cultural and political history of the country and the last seventy years, letting us be carried away by the passion, the ...

Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español (2010)

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 ...

No al no: Visca el piano! (2006)

Carles Santos plays several of his pieces on the piano. This film was made for the exhibit on Carles Santos Visca el piano! held at the Miro Foundation in the summer of 2006. ...

The Tempest (2003)

Naked bodies are buffeted by water accompanied by the music Il Temporale from the opera La Cenerentola and the overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia both by Gioacchino Rossini. ...

LA, RE, MI, LA (1979)

Carles Santos, at the piano, plays the notes that make up the title 74 times, dressed up and disguised as that many characters. ...

Acció Santos (1973)

The film is divided into two antithetical segments ‒ The first is made up of a couple of fixed shots of the pianist, Carles Santos, playing Chopin's Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op.45. The second segment shows him listening to this own recording from a loud ...

Play Back (1970)

Short film by Spanish/Catalan film maker Pere Portabella. ...