José Luis Guerín

On an Island (2019)

A poetic approach to the island of Lanzarote. ...

The Academy of Muses (2015)

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 proj ...

Le Saphir de Saint-Louis (2015)

In Saint-Louis Cathedral, at La Rochelle, in a chapel filled with merchant marine ex-votos, there's a painting that witnesses the tragedy of The Saphir in 1741. This schooner was becalmed for days and days in inter-tropical waters, with 271 slaves and 30 c ...

Two Letters for Ana (2011)

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 th ...

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin (2011)

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas. ...

Guest (2011)

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 tr ...

Memories of a Morning (2011)

Utilizing the impressionistic techniques of IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA (if SYLVIA was a riff on the "city film," the more miniaturized MEMORIES might be termed a "street-corner film"), Guerín uses a disturbing incident in his Barcelona neighborhood to thread t ...

A Traveler's Memory: Jeonju Digital Project 2011 (2011)

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 M ...

Some Photos in the City of Sylvia (2007)

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. ...

In the City of Sylvia (2007)

A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier. ...

Train Strasbourg-Paris (2006)

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. ...

Mujer esperando al tranvía (2006)

Work in Progress (2001)

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

Train of Shadows (1997)

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

Innisfree (1990)

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. ...

City Life (1990)

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

Eulalia-Marta (1990)

In the Mediterranean port of Barcelona two young unemployed girls living in a renovation area drift around the city desperately looking for a job. ...

Souvenir (1986)

José Luis Guerín's great short film from 1986. ...

Berta's Motives (1984)

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. ...

Uno sguardo alla Terra (2018)

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 docume ...

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin (2011)

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas. ...

Guest (2011)

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 tr ...

Déconstruction (2009)

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 sort ...

Souvenir (1986)

José Luis Guerín's great short film from 1986. ...