“GOLFA TÚ” SESSION
French Institute
Saturday, July 2nd
11 p.m.
Perfect day
Fuckbuddies
Caníbales
Consecuente/Consecuencias
Con la presencia del director
JUANMA CARRILLO
(Logroño 1978)
Audiovisual creator and photographer, he is one more prolific movie-makers of his generation with more than 20 works in the last decade. His movies have been projected in centres such as the Queens Museum in New York, the Barbican Centre in London or the Museum Reina Sofía in Madrid and in prestigious festivals such as Berlin or Lisbon.
Collaborator for many magazines and companies, he has participated in exhibitions both collective and individual: Luis Adelantado in Valencia, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Space Bizarre in Brussels or Purificación García in Madrid and Lisbon. As movie-maker his shorts and videocreations have been screened in many festivals and competitions and in centres such as La Casa Encendida. In 2005 he collaborated in the book Antimanuel d’éducation sexuelle together with artists as Larry Clark, Nan Goldin or Sophie Calle. Next year, the Art Book Katalogue presents in London some of his creations together with emerging artists as Niels Alpert, Ray Caesar or Franco B., and he continues at the same time publishing in press, in French magazines such as PREF or Magic, participating in photos special issues with David Amnstrong or Wolfang Tillmans, and Spanish art magazines such as Rojo, or Neo 2.
In 2010 he participated in the American documentary GAZE directed by Matt Riddlehoover with Bruce la Bruce, Adam Bouska or Nick San Pedro. Nowadays, he is preparing his first film feature «ILSANDIA».
For our 2011 edition of FIRE!!, Juanma Carrillo has prepared to spots; you can watch them here:
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Perfect day
Spain, 2010
Direction: Juanma Carrillo and Félix Fernández
Production: Juanma Carrillo and Félix Fernández
Starring: Félix Fernández, Guadalupe Lancho, Juan Gómez
Genre: Videocreation
Short
19’
Perfect Day is part of the trilogy «Cover me», where Juanma Carrillo and Félix Fernández develop a creative work about loneliness, the separativity of the individual and the affective-emotional relationships. Each video fragment presents us a new version of well-known songs, like in this second piece where the song «Perfect day» from Lou Reed is revisited with musician and compositor Rubeck. This work connects with an energy in constant change and the search of an ideal that fades away with the proximity of the bodies. Each frame explores the friction between the sublime and quotidian parts in every sexual encounter, every farewell, every breakup.
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Fuckbuddies
Spain, 2011
Direction: Juanma Carrillo
Production: Emociones Produce
Staring: Richard García Vázquez, Domingo Fernández
Genre: Videocreation
Short
5’ 53’’
Public award at the Zinegoak festival, Bilbao
Première in Barcelona
Two men meet at lunchtime to have quick sex in the car, on the outskirts of the city.
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Caníbales
Spain, 2009
Director: Juanma Carrillo
Producer: Emociones Produce
Starring: Andrés Bernal, Guadalupe Lancho, Fran Fernández
Genre: Video creation
Short film
19’
La Paz People’s Award
The only Spanish short film nominated for the Iris Prize, Cardiff.
Première in Barcelona
10 minutes away from the city centre, hundreds of men gather fortuitously and stealthily. Some looking for quick sex, others to avoid loneliness, but the majority is searching for themselves.
Caníbales comes from Juanma Carrillo’s interest, as an artist and confessed voyeur, of the common, worldwide extended, slandered, and much talked about practice of cruising. Strangers looking for quick hot sex.
Caníbales premiered in November 2009, and since then it has become the most viewed work of Juanma Carrillo, and has been shown in many film festivals, such as Zinegoak of Bilbao, Toronto, Queer Lisboa, Mix Milan and Mix Mexico, 25 LGBT Festival of Copenhagen, etc. Recently, it has been nominated for the Iris Prize as Best LGBT Short Film.
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Consecuente/Consecuencias
Spain, 2010
Direction: Juanma Carrillo
Production: Emociones Produce
Starring: Juanjo Martínez, Saida Benzal, Guadalupe Lancho
Genre: Videocreation
Short
9’ 30’’
Nominated at the Óptica 2010 Prize
Première in Barcelona
Life goes on, and every person that you meet in your life takes something from you. Some take everything!... Consequences of reiterated walk on the walk side. Time really heals everything? If so, how long does it take to build hope again?...
