Movies: Ocaña

This is the story of three homosexuals who decide to spend the summer together at the cottage that the parents of one of them have in Santander. The film shows naturally a series of attitudes then considered shocking and even unnatural....

Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall....

A sincere portrait, and in first person, of the multifaceted Andalusian artist José Pérez Ocaña....

José Pérez Ocaña, “La Ocaña”, as he liked to call himself, was a Spanish painter who used transvestism and performances as a calling card, but nevertheless a clearly unclassifiable artist. More than 40 years have had to pass since his premature death...

José Pérez Ocaña was one of the symbols of the counter-culture in 1970s' Spain. He was of Andalusian origin but adopted Barcelona as his hometown and Las Ramblas as his stage, where he promenaded in drag. He died in 1983, at only 36 . A painter, famo...

March 1983. Spanish painter Ocaña held an event for children at the Museum of Fine Arts of Santander, where he introduced them to his exhibition and creative process, answered their questions, and raffled off several artworks....