Synopsis
Pere Portabella is a great and highly original filmmaker. His films have been fundamental links of an alternative and influential film culture. As a producer, we owe him Marco Ferreri’s El cochecito and Buñuel’s Viridiana. Portabella has also been a relevant politician: he was elected senator in the Spanish Constituent Cortes and his signature is on the 1978 Spanish Constitution. Constel·lació Portabella is developed from fragments of his own films and debates, conferences and interviews. Framing all this are twelve interviews with critics, directors, and film and art historians who have dealt with his work or participated in its creation.
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Filmmaker
Claudio Zulian
Filmmaker, producer, artist, musician, and writer. He holds a PhD in Aesthetics from the University of Paris-Saint Denis. His fiction and documentary feature films have participated in and won awards at international festivals such as those in New York, Sydney, Singapore, Leipzig, and Milan. He received the City of Barcelona Award and the National Prize of Catalonia for the film Through Carmel . Constellation Portabella had its world premiere in the Venice Film Festival.
Filmography: Constellation Portabella (2024, D'A 2025), The Magic Mountain (2023), We Were Not Born Refugees (2020), Sin miedo (2017), Born (2014), Fortuny and the Magic Lamp (mid-length film, 2011), Through Carmel (2006), L’avenir (short film, 2004), Beatriz/Barcelona (2004), Strange Gazes (short film, 2002)
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