José Luis Guerín Movies

A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier.

On returning from class, a teacher is questioned by his wife, who distrusts his pedagogic project: an “Academy of the Muses” inspired by...

Experimental silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s.

The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man.

This remarkable companion piece to In the City of Sylvia offers a compendium of images recorded by Guerín in Strasbourg while searching for...

An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.

Documentary tribute to "The Quiet Man" by John Ford. A special tribute that, away from traditional documentary, traces the outline of a...

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What...

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

Collection of documentary shorts by various acclaimed directors

Memories of neighbors surrounding a violinist who committed suicide naked. Journey to the jungles of Guyana and Suriname in South America, chasing...

The short film is like a journal page of film making. On making a film (in 1966) in Barcelona. On assembling together surviving fragments of the...

José Luis Guerín's great short film from 1986.

In Saint-Louis Cathedral, at La Rochelle, in a chapel filled with merchant marine ex-votos, there’s a painting that witnesses the tragedy of...

A poetic approach to the island of Lanzarote.

Utilizing the impressionistic techniques of IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA (if SYLVIA was a riff on the “city film,” the more miniaturized...

A Ryokan, by José Luis Guerin to complete the #YoMeQuedoEnCasa cycle. After twenty-one clips over three months, we close the cycle with a...