Synopsis:
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.

Los.motivos.de.Berta.AKA.Berta's.Motives.1984.576p.Repack.Bluray.AAC.x264-LAA.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/3D73FC9F3DA01BB/Los.motivos.de.Berta.AKA.Berta’s.Motives.1984.576p.Repack.Bluray.AAC.x264-LAA.mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

The post José Luis Guerín – Los motivos de Berta AKA Berta’s Motives (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

IMDb User wrote:
This correspondence, or exchange of letters and video diaries between acclaimed filmmakers Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerin is extremely potent, there’s sorcery at play in the mixture of the two. Together they’re light and dark. Mekas knows life’s joys, and is always a participant in what he films, Guerín is a detached observer, cold, present only as a black mote, reflected in the eye of one of his subjects. Guerín shoots in black and white and strives for formalism, Mekas loves hazard, loves his chaotic hand-held colour camera. Jonas Mekas felt that his images were inferior to those of Guerín, but a picture of his son Sebastian devouring a pickle, followed by Jonas on the deli sausage and wine, and then a cheeky close up of Goethe’s Faust; which of them Faust and which Mephistopheles? That one shot set me thinking about the nature of art and the privilege of artists, and could be interpreted in any one of several fruitful ways.

Guerín’s Camera is brutal, his viewpoint black, on death and distance. He sends Jonas a morbid video, regarding a Slovenian film writer, which is almost a provocation. One beautiful moment, filmed through a gap in his hotel room’s curtains shows a young couple frolicking in the sea, for which brief segment he allows music. It’s deliberately voyeuristic though, Guerín is distant he identifies with migrant workers he films in Venice.

The films, in an aesthetic sense presents clarity versus confusion, reality versus a dreamer’s obfuscation. There’s an extent to which what we see is a real correspondence, an extent to which they are talking past one another. Guerín intones that dialogue between filmmakers is an impossibility, over images of fish heads on ice in a market. It’s one of two visual quotes I suspected are from Pere Potabella (from Pont de Varsovia).

The difference in viewpoint I suspect ultimately is that Mekas sees beauty in the fact that life goes on, wonder in impermanence, Guerín is blanched by it.

https://nitro.download/view/0C8C49450ECBAF0/Correspondencia_1_Guerin_Mekas.part1.rar https://nitro.download/view/C0EE63087262603/Correspondencia_1_Guerin_Mekas.part2.rar

Language:English and Catalan and Spanish
Subtitles:English,Spanish,French

The post José Luis Guerín & Jonas Mekas – Correspondencia Jonas Mekas – José Luis Guerín (2011) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Poetic approach to the origins and mythical configuration of Lanzarote.

935MB | 25 min 22 s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D1FC47FD97F5972/De_una_isla_(Jose_Luis_Guerin,_2019).mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/94E450AF5173B0E/De_una_isla_(Jose_Luis_Guerin,_2019).srt

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Subtitles:Spanish (hardcoded),English

The post José Luis Guerín – De una isla (2019) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

An unnamed young man arrives in the foreign city of Strasbourg for reasons unstated. He waits at a hotel, visits a café, sketches passersby… Eventually his motives are revealed, but it is not a traditional narrative that Guerín is after so much as the urban experience of watching, waiting, absorbing. Out of these materials Guerín builds a spellbinding film that reminds us of cinema’s powerful ability to evoke the tugs of memory, desire and the transitory. An extraordinary city film, Sylvia almost entirely eschews dialogue to instead give a symphonic voice to the city itself through a rich and fully immersive soundtrack of urban sounds, explosions of music and strange

Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia - Jose-Luis Guerin (2007).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/CE2147EC834A866/Unas_fotos_en_la_ciudad_de_Sylvia_-_Jose-Luis_Guerin_(2007).mkv

Language(s):Spanish titles and intertitles
Subtitles:English

The post José Luis Guerín – Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In 1741, a ship called the Saphir sets sail from a port in La Rochelle, France on its way to the New World. On board are thirty crewmembers and two hundred seventy-one slaves. Somewhere off the coast of Santo Domingo, a slave revolt erupts. This little-known moment in history was memorialized in an obscure 18th century painting that hangs in the Saint-Louis Cathedral in La Rochelle. Celebrated filmmaker Jose Luis Guerin peers into this painting to vividly re-tell the story, capturing, in the process, a snapshot of the political, historical, economic and social realities of the time. THE SAPPHIRE OF ST. LOUIS is a remarkable documentary that uses a little painting hidden away in a remote cathedral to open a door on a pivotal moment in history.

https://nitro.download/view/8ECE0380EA6C982/Le_Saphir_de_Saint-Louis_(Jose_Luis_Guerin,_2015).mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:Hardcoded English

The post José Luis Guerín – Le Saphir de Saint-Louis AKA The Sapphire of St. Louis (2015) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
It’s summer and a young foreigner saunters through the streets of this city of street cars and canals.
A lone wanderer, the hypotheses surrounding him will be changing: An artist, at leisure, a simple tourist, a parasite, paranoid, in love…?
Lodged at an old, family-run hotel, he walks through the city, observing, writing and drawing –sketching gestures and expressions caught at random on the street.
In the evenings he haunts a night club called “Les Aviateurs”.
He peers through the open windows of certain façades.
He revisits one of them at different times of day, here and there making out minor domestic contents, more insinuated than seen.
A certain mystery floats over the nature of his intentions, with attitudes reminiscent of those of a voyeur or even a psycho-killer…

En la ciudad de Sylvia - J.L. Guerin (2007).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/7B5982960BFC13A/En_la_ciudad_de_Sylvia_-_J.L._Guerin_(2007).mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post José Luis Guerín – En la ciudad de Sylvia AKA In the City of Sylvia (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Filmmaker Jose 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 track in some of the world’s major cities. (IMDB Plot Summary)

Guest (2010) -- Jose Luis Guerin.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/C086BE77FED402B/Guest_(2010)_–_Jose_Luis_Guerin.mkv

Language(s):Spanish | English | Portuguese | Cantonese | Arabic
Subtitles:English, Spanish. French, Catalan (muxed)

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