Lluís Carbó

The film takes place in Ireland – an Ireland where people speak Catalan with a Fassbinder accent – from the 1930 to today, and follows in several parallel directions the sprawling saga of two rival gold mines, the exploitation of artists by Capital, and the simultaneous opening of a brothel where women do not like men. Because he does things his own way, Albert Serra’s most narrative and wordy film was not meant for cinema: produced by the Venice Biennale, it was part of an installation, its chapters shown simultaneously on several screens. Singularity could very well have been called “Velvet Goldmine”, as it sings the meeting of brothels and tunnels, of a golden stud and lustful bodies (both shown as abstractions).

Guidés par le hasard, Don Quichotte et Sancho poursuivent jour et nuit leur voyage à la recherche d'aventures. Ils chevauchent à travers champs, conversant sur des sujets aussi divers que la spiritualité, la Chevalerie, ou simplement la vie quotidienne. Un lien d'amitié de plus en plus fort les unit.

Les Rois Mages sont en route à la recherche du Sauveur. Ils traversent, un peu au hasard, des déserts de glace, puis de sable. Ils vivent au gré des saisons, en harmonie avec la nature, se nourrissant simplement et dormant à la belle étoile.

Loving cult film and idiosyncratic musical portrait of summer festivities in the Catalan village of Crespià, with early performances by the well-known faces from the work of Serra.

Part of the crew of Honor of the Knights travels to La Mancha to see the real settings of Quixote’s life in order to shoot a film.

Episodic film, divided into 14 chapters, based on the play De los nombres de Cristo (1586), by Fray Luis de Leon and intended for exhibition "Are You Ready for TV?". Filmed partly in the rooms of MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), is about the difficulty of naming or visually represent abstract concepts.

Casanova fait la connaissance d’un nouveau serviteur qui sera le témoin des derniers moments de sa vie. Quittant un château suisse aux ambiances galantes et libertines typiques du 18ème siècle, il passe ses derniers jours dans les terres pauvres et sombres de l’Europe septentrionale. Là-bas, son monde de mondanités et sa pensée rationaliste s’effondrent face à une force nouvelle, violente, ésotérique et romantique représentée par Dracula et son pouvoir éternel.

A 101-hour long reflection on the construction of Europe, its cultural identity and its foundations through the complete adaptation of the texts ‘Conversations with Goethe’ by J. P. Eckermann, ‘Hitler’s Table Talks’ and ‘Fassbinder über Fassbinder: Die ungekürzten Interviews’ (a compilation of interviews with the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, which is used as a counterpoint to the first two books). The texts are read, page by page, by non-professional actors.

An homage from Serra to one of his idols, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, shot in a nightclub full of characters that resemble the ones of Fassbinder films. The title comes from the favourite drink of “Beware of the Holy Whore” characters.