Carlos Atanes
| Carlos Atanes | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 8, 1971 Barcelona, Spain |
| Occupation | film director, producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1987-present |
| Website | |
| http://www.carlosatanes.com | |
Carlos Atanes (born November 8, 1971) is a Spanish film director and writer.
Born in Barcelona, Spain, Atanes has written and directed many works since 1987, using different genres and techniques (Hi-8 video, 35mm., etc.). In 1991, he shot The Marvellous World of the Cucu Bird, which has been followed by another experimental works as El Tenor Mental (1993) and Borneo (1997). Some fiction productions like La Metamorfosis de Franz Kafka (1993), Morfing (1995), Metaminds & Metabodies (1995–1999) or Welcome to Spain (1999) show us a particular vision about cinema and, also, about reality (with a style that provokes adhesions but aversions too). He is a controversial filmmaker and a cultural activist, who has always vindicated the independent production, digital cinematography and science fiction genre (a kind of cinema very unusual in Spain). In 2003 he started a work about the famous British magician Aleister Crowley, and the outcome was Perdurabo, a medium-length (40 min.) film, which will be the first part of a feature-length movie when Atanes will retake the project.
His first finished feature-length movie is FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (2004), a low-budget film about a cold European dystopia which shows his eye for unusual imagery. It won the Best Feature Film Award at the Athens Panorama of Independent Filmmakers (Greece, 2005), and was also nominated to the Méliès d'Argent at Fantasporto (2005).
With PROXIMA (2007) he has grown to currently become the Spanish science fiction filmmaker par excellence.
In 2008 he collected his three most wild, bizarre and underground shortfilms into the CODEX ATANICUS, an anthology which is on its way to becoming a cult film, judging by enthusiastic reviews written by American indy movie critics.[1] That same year he created, along with the filmmakers Albert Pons, Victor Conde and El Chico Morera, the collective project Pulque 51, consisting of four short films in order to launch the actress Arantxa Peña as a new Spanish scream queen. Atanes directed the short film entitled, precisely, Scream Queen.[2]
In 2010 he makes Maximum Shame, a fetish, surreal, musical and science fiction feature-length movie, with which recovers the bizarre and underground spirit of CODEX ATANICUS, which had returned to close to with Scream Queen.[3] Maximum Shame, a dystopian nightmare and fetish on the end of the world, pain and pleasure, ecstasy and power, is nominated for Best Long Film at the BUT Film Festival Breda (Netherlands), in 2010.
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[edit] Filmography as director
FEATURE MOVIES:
- 2010 - Maximum Shame
- 2007 - PROXIMA
- 2004 - FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
SHORT FILMS, DOCUMENTARIES AND OTHERS:
- 2008 - Scream Queen
- 2008 - CODEX ATANICUS (anthology)
- 2007 - Made in PROXIMA
- 2003 - Perdurabo at the Internet Movie Database
- 1999 - Cyberspace Under Control at the Internet Movie Database
- 1999 - Welcome to Spain at the Internet Movie Database
- 1999 - Metaminds & Metabodies at the Internet Movie Database
- 1998 - The Seven Hills of Rome
- 1997 - Borneo
- 1996 - Morfing at the Internet Movie Database
- 1993 - The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka
- 1993 - The Mental Tenor
- 1992 - El Parc at the Internet Movie Database
- 1991 - Els Peixos Argentats a la Peixera at the Internet Movie Database
- 1991 - The Marvellous World of the Cucu Bird at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] Bibliography
- Atanes, Carlos (2007) - Los trabajos del director (Essay) - ISBN 978-1434818706
- Atanes, Carlos (2003) - El hombre de la pistola de nata (Theatre) - ISBN 978-1434819031
- Atanes, Carlos (2002) - Confutatis Maledictis (Novel) - ISBN 978-1434819017
- Atanes, Carlos (2002) - La cobra en la cesta de mimbre (Theatre) - ISBN 978-1434819024
[edit] Notes
- ^ Carter, David CODEX ATANICUS (1995-1999), Film Fanaddict.
- ^ Everleth, Mike Short Horror Movie: Scream Queen, Bad Lit - The journal of underground film.
- ^ Pritchard, Paul Maximum Shame, Pulpmovies.
