About

To coincide with the Queensland Art Gallery's landmark exhibition from the Museo Nacional del Prado, the Gallery's Australian Cinémathèque presents a major historical survey of Spanish cinema. '100 Years of Spanish Cinema' traces a fascinating path through Spain's national cinema, paralleling the country's turbulent modern history and charting the political, social and industrial shifts that have informed Spanish cultural identity. Covering a period of just over 100 years of film production, the program includes works from pioneers of the silent era through to those working under dictatorship and in the transition to democracy, and the latest generation of filmmakers working in post-Franco Spain.

A wide variety of genres and themes are featured. The program includes socially driven rural dramas, national allegories embedded in historical epics, masterful satires and parodies of Spanish history and society as well as popular forms of melodrama and musicals, expressions of Spanish neo-realism, and the important traditions of documentary filmmaking.

The program profiles filmmakers Vicente Aranda, Alejandro Amenábar, Jaume Balagueró, Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga, Luis Buñuel, Mario Camus, Segundo de Chomón, Isabel Coixet, Víctor Erice, José Luis Guerín, Álex de la Iglesia, Juan José Bigas Luna, Julio Medem, Benito Perojo, Pere Portabella, Florián Rey, Carlos Saura, Albert Serra and others.

QAGOMA acknowledges all the archives, filmmakers and distributors who have generously provided screening materials for this program. Program curated by José Da Silva, Australian Cinémathèque.

List of Works

• Ah! La barbe 1905 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• Plongeur fantastique 1905 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• Les roses magiques 1906 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• Le sorcier Arabe 1906 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• Le troubadour 1906 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• En avant la musique1907 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• Le Scarabée d'or 1907 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• Les oeufs de Pâques 1907 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• Métempsychose 1907 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• Création de la Serpentine 1908 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• Excursion dans la Lune 1908 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• L'abeille et la Rose 1908 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• La Grenouille 1908 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• Le voleur mysterieux 1908 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• La leçon de Musique 1909 | Director: Segundo de Chomón
• La sin ventura aka La malchanceuse (The Unlucky One) 1923 | Directors: E B Donatien, Benito Perojo La revoltosa (The Mischievous Girl) 1924 | Director: Florián Rey
• Pilar Guerra 1926 | Director: José Buchs
• El negro que tenía el alma blanca (The Black Man With a White Soul) 1927 | Director: Benito Perojo
• El dos de mayo (The Second of May) 1927 | Director: José Buchs
• ¡Viva Madrid, que es mi pueblo! (Viva Madrid, My People) 1928 | Director: Fernando Delgado
• El misterio de la Puerta del Sol (The Mystery of Puerta del Sol) 1929 | Director: Francisco Elías
• El Sexto Sentido (The Sixth Sense) 1929 | Directors: Eusebio Fernández Ardavín, Nemesio M Sobrevila
• La bodega (Wine Cellars) 1930 | Director: Benito Perojo
• La aldea maldita (The Cursed Village) 1930 | Director: Florián Rey
• Las Hurdes aka Terre sans Pain (Land without Bread) 1932—36 | Director: Luis Buñuel
• La verbena de la Paloma (Fair of the Dove) 1935 | Director: Benito Perojo
• Carmen, la de Triana (Carmen, the Girl from Triana) 1938 | Director: Florián Rey
• Vida en sombras (Life in Shadows) 1948 | Director: Lorenzo Llobet Gracia
• Locura de amor (Love Crazy) 1950 | Director: Juan De Orduña
• Esa pareja feliz (That Happy Couple) 1953 | Directors: Luis García Berlanga, Juan Antonio Bardem
• ¡Bienvenido Mister Marshall! (Welcome Mr. Marshall!) 1953 | Director: Luis García Berlanga
• Muerte de un ciclista (Death of a Cyclist) 1955 | Director: Juan Antonio Bardem
• Calle Mayor (Main Street aka The Lovemaker) 1956 | Director: Juan Antonio Bardem
• El cochecito (The Little Coach aka The Wheelchair) 1960 | Director: Marco Ferreri
• Los golfos (The Delinquents) 1960 | Director: Carlos Saura
• Plácido 1961 | Director: Luis García Berlanga
• Viridiana 1961 | Director: Luis Buñuel
• El verdugo (The Executioner) 1963 | Director: Luis García Berlanga
• La tía Tula (Aunt Tula) 1964 | Director: Miguel Picazo
• La caza (The Hunt) 1966 | Director: Carlos Saura
• Nocturno 29 1968 | Director: Pere Portabella
• Tristana 1970 | Director: Luis Buñuel
• Umbracle 1970 | Director: Pere Portabella
• Viva la muerte (Long Live Death) 1971 | Director: Fernando Arrabal
• Lejos de los árboles (Far from the Trees) 1972 | Director: Jacinto Esteva
• El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) 1973 | Director: Víctor Erice
• Cría cuervos 1976 | Director: Carlos Saura
• Canciones para después de una guerra (Songs for After a War) 1971 | Director: Basilio Martín Patino
• Arrebato (Rapture) 1980 | Director: Iván Zulueta
• Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding) 1981 | Director: Carlos Saura
• Volver a empezar (Starting Over) 1982 | Director: José Luis Garci
• Carmen 1983 | Director: Carlos Saura
• El sur (The South) 1983 | Director: Víctor Erice
• Los santos inocentes (The Holy Innocents) 1984 | Director: Mario Camus
• ¡Ay, Carmela! 1990 | Director: Carlos Saura
• Amantes (Lovers) 1991 | Director: Vicente Aranda
• Belle epoque (The Age of Beauty) 1992 | Director: Fernando Trueba
• El sol del membrillo (Quince Tree of the Sun) 1992 | Director: Víctor Erice
• Jamón, jamón 1992 | Director: Bigas Luna
• Vacas (Cows) 1992 | Director: Julio Medem
• Acción mutante 1993 | Director: Álex De La Iglesia
• El día de la bestia (The Day of the Beast) 1995 | Director: Álex De La Iglesia
• Flamenco 1995 | Director: Carlos Saura
• Tierra (Earth) 1996 | Director: Julio Medem
• Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) 1997 | Director: Alejandro Amenábar
• Tren de sombras (Train of Shadows) aka Le Spectre De Le Thuit (The Spector of Le Thuit) 1997 | Director: José Luis Guerín
• Los amantes del Círculo Polar (Lovers of the Arctic Circle) 1998 | Director: Julio Medem
• El espinazo del diablo (The Devil's Backbone) 2001 | Director: Guillermo Del Toro
• En Construcción (Work in Progress) 2001 | Director: Luis Guerín
• Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucia) 2001 | Director: Julio Medem
• La pelota vasca: La piel contra la piedra (The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone) 2003 | Director: Julio Medem
• Te doy mis ojos (Take My Eyes) 2003 | Director: Icíar Bollaín
• Mar adentro (The Sea Inside) 2004 | Director: Alejandro Amenábar
• El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War 2005 | Director: Péter Forgács
• La vida secreta de las palabras (The Secret Life of Words) 2005 | Director: Isabel Coixet
• El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) 2006 | Director: Guillermo Del Toro
• Honor de cavallería (Honour of the Knights [Quixotic]) 2006 | Director: Albert Serra
• En la ciudad de Sylvia (In the City of Sylvia) 2007 | Director: José Luis Guerín
• El orfanato (The Orphanage) 2007 | Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
• [REC] 2007 | Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
• El cant dels ocells (Birdsong) 2008 | Director: Albert Serra
• Aita (Father) 2010 | Director: José María De Orbe
• Balada triste de trompeta (The Last Circus) 2010 | Director: Álex De La Iglesia
• Flamenco, Flamenco 2010 | Director: Carlos Saura
• Pa negre (Black Bread) 2010 | Director: Agustí Villaronga