Isaki Lacuesta

A filmmaker who has received many awards, he situates his filmography at the bounds of fiction and non-fiction with works that are shown in such prestigious cultural centres as the MoMA and the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris.

A graduate of the first master’s degree in Creative Documentary at the Pompeu Fabra University, he sets his films at the limits between fiction and non-fiction. Since his debut with Cravan vs Cravan (2002), he has written and directed nine feature films, among them Entre dos aguas (Between Two Waters, 2018) which, returning to the characters of La leyenda del tiempo (The Legend of Time, 2006), received a Concha de Oro award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. His films have been shown at festivals around the world and in art centres like the CCCB, the MOMA, the Lincoln Center, and Anthology Film Archives, while his complete filmography has been shown in retrospectives such as those programmed at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the National Gallery in Washington, and the Swiss, Spanish, and Catalan Film Archives. He was a curator, together with Jelena Prokopljevic and Jaume Prat, of the Catalan Pavilion in the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2016. Also significant are his incursions into the world of art with installations for exhibitions, as well as joint projects with architects, painters, musicians and other filmmakers. The CCCB has co-produced two installations with Lacuesta: Traces, which was presented at the 2007 Frankfurt Book Fair, and the filmed correspondence with the Japanese film director Naomi Kawase, titled In between Days (2008-2011), which was shown as part of the exhibition “The Complete Letters: Filmed Correspondence”(winner of the 2011 City of Barcelona Audiovisuals Prize). He has also received the 2012 National Prize for Cinematography of the Generalitat (Government) of Catalonia, the Sant Jordi Prize (2002, 2017), and the Eloy de la Iglesia Prize (2010, Festival de Málaga), among other awards. He has recently created the work Retratos mudos (Mute Portraits), a journey without sound through the movements of flamenco, and is now working on a new film, Un año, una noche (One Year, One Night) about the survivors of the terrorist attack on the Bataclán theatre in Paris.

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