Carlos Atanes

Carlos Atanes (born November 8, 1971 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish film director , screenwriter and playwright . He is a member of the film-makers' cooperative .

Life

Atanes was first directed in 1987 in a film he made with a few friends from high school. He studied film in Barcelona in the late 1980s to early 1990s, but it is not known exactly where. In 1989 he made a feature film about travel trips called La Ira , which, apart from his own crew members, never saw anyone.

His first public short film , Morir de Calor, was also his only 35mm short film. It was completed in 1991 and shown at the Cinema Jove de València festival. In the same year he made The Marvelous World of the Cucu Bird , which was followed by other experimental works such as El Tenor Mental (1993) and Borneo (1997). This was followed by fiction productions such as La Metamorfosis de Franz Kafka (1993), Morfing (1995), Metaminds & Metabodies (1995–1999) or Welcome to Spain (1999), which illustrate Atane's special view of cinema and reality. He is a controversial director and cultural activist who has always defended independent production, digital cinema cameras and the science fiction genre, which was very unusual in Spain.

In 2003 he began work on the well-known British magician Aleister Crowley , which resulted in Perdurabo , a medium-length (40 min) film that was to become the first part of a full-length film, but Atanes has not yet resumed this project. He began shooting the first complete feature film, FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions , in French in 2000, but it wasn't finished until 2004 and shows his eye for unusual imagery. The film was shot on a low budget and is about a cold European dystopia . In 2005 it won the Athens Panorama of Independent Filmmakers ' Best Feature Film award and was also nominated for the Méliès d'Argent in Fantasporto . With the film PROXIMA in 2007 Atanes became the Spanish science fiction filmmaker par excellence.

In 2008 he collected his three wildest and grotesque underground short films as CODEX ATANICUS , an anthology that, after enthusiastic reviews by American independent film critics , could become a cult film. In the same year, together with directors Albert Pons, Victor Conde and El Chico Morera, he produced the joint project Pulque 51 , which consists of four short films and aimed to bring out actress Arantxa Peña as the new Spanish scream queen . The short film that Atanes directed is also called Scream Queen .

With Maximum Shame , he completed a full-length film in 2010, which takes up the grotesque nature of CODEX ATANICUS and at the same time concludes Scream Queen. The film, a “dystopian nightmare and fetish about the end of the world, pain and joy, ecstasy and power”, was named “Best Long Film” for the BUT Film Festival Breda in the Netherlands and “Weirdest Movie of.” At the Weirdcademy Awards 2011 "nominated.

In 2010 he directed his first play La Cobra en la Cesta de Mimbre in Madrid, where he had moved, and a year later his play El Hombre de la Pistola de Nata , directed by Juan José Afonso, was performed in Madrid .

Filmography

Feature films

• 2004: FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (also script)
• 2007: PROXIMA (also screenplay)
• 2010: Maximum Shame ( Maximum Shame ) (also writer)
• 2012: Gallino, the Chicken System (also screenplay)

Anthologies

• 2007: Codex Atanicus (also screenplay)

Short films and documentaries

• 1989: La Ira
• 1990: Le Descente à l'enfer d'un poète
• 1990: Romanzio in el sècolo ventuno
• 1991: Els Peixos argentats a la peixera , based on the play by the playwright Joan Brossa .
• 1991: Morir de calor
• 1991: The Marvelous World of the Cucu Bird
• 1992: El Parc, based on the play by the playwright Botho Strauss .
• 1993: El Tenor mental
• 1993: La Metamorfosis de Franz Kafka (also screenplay)
• 1994: Triptico
• 1995: Metaminds & Metabodies
• 1996: Morfing
• 1997: Borneo
• 1999: The Seven Hills of Rome
• 1999: Welcome to Spain
• 2000: Cyberspace Under Control
• 2003: Perdurabo
• 2008: Made in Próxima
• 2009: Scream Queen
• 2017: Romance bizarro

Plays

• 2011: La Cobra en la Cesta de Mimbre (Madrid)
• 2011: El Hombre de la Pistola de Nata (Madrid)
• 2012: La Depredadora (Leganés)
• 2012: La Lluvia (Madrid)
• 2013: El triunfo de la mediocridad (Madrid)
• 2013: Necrofilia fina (Madrid)
• 2013: Romance Bizarro (Madrid)
• 2013: Secretitos (Madrid)
• 2014: El grifo de 5,000,000 euros (Madrid)
• 2014: El vello público (Madrid)
• 2014: La quinta estación del puto Vivaldi (Madrid)
• 2014: Los ciclos atánicos (Madrid)
• 2015: Caminando por el valle inquietante (Madrid)
• 2015: Porno emocional (Madrid)
• 2015: Santos varones (Madrid)
• 2015: Un genio olvidado (Un rato en la vida de Charles Howard Hinton) (Madrid)
• 2016: Love is in the box (Madrid)
• 2016: La abuela de Frankenstein (Madrid)
• 2017: Pasión mostrenca (Madrid)
• 2017: Sexo y tortilla (Madrid)
• 2018: Chéjov bajo cero (Málaga)
• 2018: La línea del horizonte (Madrid)
• 2018: La incapacidad de exprimirte (Madrid)
• 2019: A Praga y vámonos (Madrid)
• 2019: ¿Hasta cuándo estáis? (Madrid)
• 2019: Antimateria (Tenerife)

Works

• Several authors: Space Fiction: Visiones de lo cósmico en la ciencia ficción . Spain 2020, ISBN 978-84-12-04966-4 .
• Several authors: De Arrebato a Zulueta . Spain 2019, ISBN 978-84-12-04931-2 .
• Magia del Caos para escépticos . Spain 2018, ISBN 978-84-949113-4-7 .
• Demos lo que sobre a los perros . United States 2018, ISBN 978-1-72125-351-7 .
• Several authors: La Bestia en la pantalla. Aleister Crowley y el cine fantástico . Spain 2010, ISBN 978-84-89668-84-3 .
• Un genio olvidado (Un rato en la vida de Charles Howard Hinton) . United States 2017, ISBN 1-5466-3689-7 .
• Aleister Crowley in the Mouth of Hell . United States 2013, ISBN 1-4825-9955-4 .
• Los trabajos del director . United States 2007, ISBN 978-1-4348-1870-6 .
• The hombre de la pistola de nata . United States 2003, ISBN 978-1-4348-1903-1 .
• Confutatis Maledictis . United States 2002, ISBN 978-1-4348-1901-7 .
• La cobra en la cesta de mimbre . United States 2002, ISBN 978-1-4348-1902-4 .
• Combustión espontánea de un jurado . United States 2001, ISBN 978-1-4752-4148-8 .

Web links

• [1] Official website
• "The Complete Exile: The Films of Carlos Atanes" - May 2011 (English)
• Carlos Atanes in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carlos Atanes - The Maverick Filmmaker: Bio-Filmography . (English)
2. ↑ David Carter: CODEX ATANICUS (1995–1999) ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Film Fanaddict. (English) 
3. ↑ Mike Everleth: Short Horror Movie: Scream Queen in: Bad Lit - The journal of underground film. (English)
4. ^ Paul Pritchard: Maximum Shame ( Memento June 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Pulpmovies. (English)
5. ↑ Jorge Pereira: Entrevista a Carlos Atanes, realizador de 'Maximum Shame' - um dos quebra-cabeças do Fantasporto ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), interview with Carlos Atanes. (Portuguese)
6. ↑ TGIF: What movies are considered rare in 2011? , Wikinoticia.
7. ↑ 366 Weird Movies: The 2012 Weirdcademy Awards (English)
8. ↑ The Maverick Filmmaker (English)