Born in 1927, Pere Portabella is one of the most important figures in the history of Spanish cinema. In addition to being one of the driving forces behind the Barcelona School, he has worked as a producer with emblematic names such as Carlos Saura (The Delinquents), Marco Ferreri (El cochecito) and Luis Buñuel (Viridiana). In addition, as a director he has made more than twenty films, including Vampir-Cuadecuc, El sopar and Informe General, among others. Constelación Portabella is the first documentary dedicated to his life and work. Claudio Zulian (Through the Carmel, Born), an Italian director based in Catalonia, gathers Portabella's testimony and that of different people from the cultural avant-garde (Joan Brossa, Carles Santos, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Esteve Riambau, Luis E. Parés) to construct a complete portrait of the chameleonic filmmaker and politician. Interventions that converse with his extensive work, covering a large part of the history of Spain over the last seventy years, from Franco's regime to the present day.
Claudio Zulian
Filmmaker, producer, artist, musician and writer born in Italy (Campodarsego) and based in Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Aesthetics from the University of Paris-Saint Denis, and his fiction and documentary feature films have participated in and won awards at festivals such as New York, Sydney, Singapore, Leipzig and Milan. He won the City of Barcelona Prize and the National Prize of Catalonia for ‘The Shifting City’ (2010), and his filmography includes titles like ‘No nacimos refugiados’ (2020) and ‘La montaña mágica’ (2023). In 2022 the Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo explored his extensive career with the exhibition ‘Lives’. ‘Constelación Portabella’ had its world premiere in the Venice Classics - Documentaries About Cinema section of the Venice Film Festival, and he is currently preparing a new fiction film.
Screenings
O.V. in Catalan, Spanish with English and Spanish subtitles
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