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Mikel Guillen | |
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 While on set for "The Natural State". | |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, producer, photographer, anarchist poet |
| Style | Avant-garde, Experimental, Remodernist, Contemplative, Minimal cinema |
Mikel Guillen is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer, and cinematographer, based in Toronto.
Guillen's films typically involves themes relating to melancholia, sadness, poetry, anonymity, isolation, nostalgia, displacement, identity, spirituality, minimalism, and mysticism.
He is involved in the remodernist film movement, which includes “Ascending”, a film Guillen co-directed alongside Nick Block.
Influential avant-garde filmmaker and critic R. Bruce Elder said about Ascending: “The austerity is extremely elegant and the cinematography astonishing, many of the images were reduced to a stern, minimal architecture”.
//In 2015, Guillen co-founded an avant-garde film collective titled “ANTE RADIX ITER”, with Scott Barely, Jesse Richards, Andrés Arce Maldonado and Camelia Mirescu.
Filmography
[edit]- La Musique Interne (2008)
- Sangria (2009)
- The Pirate Tapes (2011)
- Ascending (2012)
- Soutenir F (2013)
- The Natural State (2014)
- La Savoir Faire de Nobody (2014)
- I deserve (2015)
- The Sadness of the Trees (1994)