Movies by José Luis Guerín
Work in Progress
An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.
The Academy of Muses
On returning from class, a teacher is questioned by his wife, who distrusts his pedagogic project: an “Academy of the Muses” inspired by classical references, which is supposed to contribute to regenerating the world through poetry. The controversial project triggers a series of situations dominated by words and desire.
Two Letters for Ana
Some Photos in the City of Sylvia
This remarkable companion piece to In the City of Sylvia offers a compendium of images recorded by Guerín in Strasbourg while searching for the traces of a (fictional?) brief encounter some years earlier with a young woman named Sylvia.