Screening presented by LA OLA with the support of Spain Arts & Culture and Now Instant Image Hall.

Special one-time screening of the Mexican documentary Una corriente salvaje (A Wild Stream), directed by the Spaniard Nuria Ibáñez (Winner of the True Vision Award in True/False Film Fest 2019, Best Mexican Documentary Award in Morelia 2018).

Chilo and Omar seem to be the only two men on Earth. They live on a solitary beach and spend everyday fishing to survive. Their friendship, suffused with sensuality, becomes a kind of love story. Exploring their conversations and their relationship, the film offers a portrait of the human condition.

Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda is a Spanish filmmaker. She studied journalism in Spain and screenwriting in Mexico. Her previous feature films are La cuerda floja (2009) and El Cuarto Desnudo (2013).

Screening Program:

Una corriente salvaje (A Wild Stream). Nuria Ibáñez, 2018, 72 min

Guest Speaker: Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda (Q&A with LA OLA Director Rocío Mesa)

Tickets: $10 General at the door.

Evento presentado por LA OLA - Independent Films From Spain, con el apoyo del CCEMx y la Embajada de España en México, en colaboración con Cineteca Nacional.

‘LA OLA - Independent Films From Spain’, en colaboración con el CCEMx, rinde homenaje al revolucionario director de cine Iván Zulueta con motivo del décimo aniversario de su fallecimiento. El evento presentará un programa especial compuesto por una nueva copia digital restaurada del largometraje de culto ARREBATO (1979), acompañada del cortometraje LEO ES PARDO (1976).

ARREBATO se filmó en 1979 y, a pesar del poco éxito que cosechó en taquilla durante su estreno, sirvió como inspiración para toda una generación de cineastas y artistas en la década de los 80s. Una película misteriosa, vanguardista, innovadora y polémica que supuso el testamento cinematográfico de Zulueta, pero que logró afianzarse como uno de los trabajos cinematográficos de culto más destacados del cine español.

Este pase especial irá acompañado de la proyección del cortometraje LEO ES PARDO, un proyecto experimental centrado en un personaje andrógino que se enfrenta a unas fuerzas desconocidas dentro de su apartamento. Este cortometraje supone la piedra angular del mundo que Zulueta desarrollaría en ARREBATO unos años después.

Iván Zulueta (1943-2009), nació y murió en la villa de Aloha en San Sebastián. Vivió 66 intensos años en los que también pasó por Nueva York y Madrid donde desarrolló un importante trabajo no sólo como cineasta sino también como diseñador, ilustrador y fotógrafo. En su faceta de diseñador gráfico, suyos fueron los posters de las primeras películas de su amigo Pedro Almodóvar; “Laberinto de pasiones”, “Entre tinieblas” y “¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?”, así como otros títulos cinematográficos destacados.

Programa:

Leo es Pardo (1976) - 10min.

Arrebato (1979) - 1h 45min.

Presentación especial: Luis M. Rivera (FICUNAM, Verano Correspondencias) y Eva Bañuelos Trigo (CCEMx)

Screening presented by LA OLA and the Los Angeles Review of Books with the support of Aaron Shulman and Now Instant Image Hall.

Special one-time screening of the 1976 Spanish documentary El Desencanto (The Disenchantment), directed by Jaime Chávarri. A cult classic in Spain on a par with Grey Gardens, El Desencanto tells the story of the Paneros, a brilliant and tormented literary family whose eccentricities and transgressive exhibitionism turned them into a phenomenon in Spain the year after dictator Francisco Franco died. As they drink and smoke and argue, talking about everything from drug use to suicide, the members of the family deconstruct the myths of their history in order to craft a new collective narrative. (Think The Royal Tenebaums, except the people are real.) - Synopsis by Aaron Shulman.

Aaron Shulman, author of the first book about the Panero family in English, titled The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War, will join us for a conversation after the screening.

Screening Program:

El desencanto (The Disenchantment), Jaime Chávarri, 1976, 1h 37 min

Guest Speaker: Aaron Shulman (Q&A with LA OLA Director Rocío Mesa)

Tickets: $10 General / $5 Members of the Los Angeles Review of Books

Screening presented by LA OLA, with the support of Spain Arts & Culture, co-presented by The American Cinematheque.

LA OLA wants to honor the memory and work of the artist Iván Zulueta on the tenth anniversary of his passing by premiering in Los Angeles his eccentric, brooding, mysterious, hallucinatory and claustrophobic, cult masterpiece: Arrebato (Rapture). We are presenting a new digital restoration of this feature, along with Zulueta’s previous work Leo Es Pardo (Leo is Dark), considered the main seed for Arrebato.

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Screening Program:

Leo es Pardo (Leo is Dark) 1976, 10min.

Arrebato (Rapture) 1979, 1h 45min.

Guest Speaker: Clara López Menéndez

Tickets: $12 General, $10 Students/Seniors and $8 Members

Poti, Nais, Ione and Das are young Spanish adults that live on their own terms. But as they approach their thirties, a profound unease overruns them: they are still far of being the independent, self-confident and passionate adults they always dreamt to be. While society pushes them to abandon ‘egotistical’ aspirations, each has to examine identity through dialogue. Thus begins an intimate exchange between them and Marina, their friend and director of this film. With the proximity of her camera, she accompanies them in the most lucid and fragile moments of daily life: dancing, waking up together; drifting around beloved landscapes; breaking into tears and laughter while reflecting in complicity about how to maintain integrity.

YOUNG&BEAUTIFUL is the polyhedric portrait of a generation accused of not wanting to grow-up; a generation which has been cornered to accept a hopeless world and a country in crisis, in which it has been announced that the one way to survive is to abandon dreams.

Q&A with director Marina Lameiro moderated by Rocío Mesa, director or LA OLA Showcase.