José Luis Guerín Movies

On returning from class, a teacher is questioned by his wife, who distrusts his pedagogic project: an “Academy of the Muses” inspired by...

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

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.

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

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

Collection of documentary shorts by various acclaimed directors

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

This remarkable companion piece to In the City of Sylvia offers a compendium of images recorded by Guerín in Strasbourg while searching for...

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What...

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...

Memories of neighbors surrounding a violinist who committed suicide naked. Journey to the jungles of Guyana and Suriname in South America, chasing...

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...

A Ryokan, by José Luis Guerin to complete the #YoMeQuedoEnCasa cycle. After twenty-one clips over three months, we close the cycle with a...

José Luis Guerín's great short film from 1986.

A poetic approach to the island of Lanzarote.

Documentary tribute to "The Quiet Man" by John Ford. A special tribute that, away from traditional documentary, traces the outline of a...

Utilizing the impressionistic techniques of IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA (if SYLVIA was a riff on the “city film,” the more miniaturized...