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Bigas Luna

Director · Born 1946-03-19 · Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Biography

Bigas Luna was a Spanish film director. He began his professional career in the design world, creating the 'Estudio Gris' with Carlos Riart in 1969. In his earlier exhibitions, at the beginning of the sixties, he showed a great interest in conceptual art and the emerging visual technologies. Esteemed as an atypical director in the Spanish cinema, in 1986 he retired to Tarragona in order to devote his time to painting. In 1990 the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez persuaded him to return to cinema and entrusted to him the direction of 'Las edades de Lulú', a film which reached the general public. Without abandoning his dedication to painting and photography, reflected in numerous exhibitions, he began the well-known 'Trilogía Ibérica' with 'Jamón Jamón', 'Huevos de Oro' and 'La teta y la luna'. Subsequently, with the short film for internet 'Collar de Moscas' (2001), he revived his interest in avant-garde experimentation and audiovisual formats and at the same time he discovered a vocation for the investigation of digital cinema after the creation of the 'Taller Bigas Luna' project with Catalina Pons in 1999. The experience in the Taller introduced them to the world of new technologies …

Directed

  1. Jamon Jamon (1992) — Director
  2. The Ages of Lulu (1990) — Director
  3. Anguish (1987) — Director
  4. Golden Balls (1993) — Director
  5. The Tit and the Moon (1994) — Director
  6. Lumière & Company (1995) — Director
  7. My Name Is Juani (2006) — Director
  8. Bambola (1996) — Director
  9. Sound of the Sea (2001) — Director
  10. The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997) — Director
  11. Bilbao (1978) — Director
  12. Volaverunt (1999) — Director
  13. DiDi Hollywood (2010) — Director
  14. Lola (1986) — Director
  15. Poodle (1979) — Director
  16. Reborn (1981) — Director
  17. Tattoo, The First Adventure Of Pepe Carvalho (1978) — Director
  18. Bigas x Bigas (2017) — Director
  19. Collar de moscas (2002) — Director
  20. Con el corazón (2007) — Director
  21. Historias impúdicas (1977) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Sexo en el plató (2007) — Himself
  2. Eurotrash (1993)
  3. Filmmakers in Action (2006) — Self
  4. Como un adiós (1983) — (as Juan José Bigas Luna)
  5. Le Passeur immobile (2021) — Self
  6. Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze (2008) — Self
  7. La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català (2019) — Self (archive footage)