Jose luis guerin biography
José Luis Guerín is a filmmaker who also has been lecturing extensively at conferences, film festivals, and universities such as Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and EICTV in Cuba.!
José Luis Guerín (born ) is a Spanish filmmaker and educator known for Train of Shadows (), En construcción (), and The Academy of Muses ().
José Luis Guerín
Spanish filmmaker and educator (born 1960)
José Luis Guerín (born 1960) is a Spanish filmmaker and educator known for Train of Shadows (1997), En construcción [es] (2001), and The Academy of Muses (2015).
Style and influences
As a young cinephile, Guerín attended many film screenings, made films on Super 8 and 16mm[1] and sought out and befriended many of the filmmakers he admired, including Robert Bresson,[2]Raoul Ruiz[2] and Philippe Garrel.[2] Guerín's films are often described as being influenced by the Lumière Brothers,[2]Howard Hawks,[2]Yasujirō Ozu[1] and John Ford (Guerín went so far as to shoot a film in Innisfree, the setting of Ford's The Quiet Man).
Guerín is known for his meditative[2] and intellectually curious[1][2] work in both documentary and narrative filmmaking. Describing Guerín in an introduction to a series of hi