The subversive vision of Luis Buñuel
Filmoteca de Catalunya will host an exhibition and a series of screenings that highlight the outstanding collaboration between the Aragonese filmmaker and the Mexican director of photography Gabriel Figueroa.
Luis Buñuel was an enigmatic director who defied convention and created a surrealist world full of provocation and irony. His films fascinate and often mystify. An artist who was able to dismantle the pillars of morality and religion, but also to show the beauty of life and death. Until 27 August, a free exhibition at the Exhibition Hall of the Filmoteca de Catalunya offers us a closer look at his work. It is accompanied by the film series Universo Buñuel, which screens some of his best films for the duration of the exhibition..
When Figueroa met Buñuel. The Aragonese director went into exile as a result of Franco's dictatorship and, after a long journey, found a new home, settling in Mexico. There he met Figueroa, one of the best directors of photography with whom he began to collaborate on his film The Forgotten Ones (1950).
This is a presentation on Buñuel's cinema and cinematographic surrealism, focusing on his collaboration with Gabriel Figueroa as director of photography in some of his most provocative and bizarre films. The exhibition includes references to some of his best-known works such as The Exterminating Angel and Simon of the Desert. Fundación Televisa and the Filmoteca de Cataluña invite the viewer to enter this universe of obsessions, which, as Héctor Orozco rightly states in the presentation, oscillate "between dream and vigil, projected both on the big screen and in the infinite space of our pupils".
The Universo Buñuel cycle offers a series of film screenings to accompany this exhibition, entitled El sueño de la liebre. El cine de Luis Buñuel y Gabriel Figueroa. It proposes a dialogue between the seven films that Buñuel made in Mexico with the collaboration of Figueroa and other French and Spanish productions by the filmmaker himself. This is undoubtedly a unique opportunity to delve into his particular world and get to know his film oeuvre up close.
Admission to the exhibition is free, but booking is required by clicking this link. The film cycle is priced at €4 per film.