Movies: Guillermo Amengual

20 years have passed since Ulysses went to fight in the Trojan War. Now he's considered lost and deceased. In Itaca, his homeland, his old dog Argos awaits his owner, wondering if he'll ever come back....

The "cueca" is Chile's national dance. Marveled by this form of dancing, the narrator reflects on the meaning of dance in our lives and how it has been portrayed in the history of cinema....

An adult couple picks lemons in their garden. This silent film is an homage to Louis and Auguste Lumière's movies...

A youngster writes a letter to his grandmother about his last trip to Donosti (Spain). This city inspires him to ponder about the language of cinema, time, cities, and sharing memories with our loved ones....

In June 2024, the photographer María Cano presented a series of pictures in the window of "Es Mirador", in Set Cantons street in Palma (Mallorca). One night I was walking around the area with my little camera and decided to record the Maria's work an...

A woman goes to a cold and inhospitable abandoned cove to try to summon the spirit of her only son, who passed away during the war....

Far from his home, locked in a room in Edinburgh, a young man writes down all the names of women that he can find in the pages of his books with the desire to evoke through them the face of his idyllic beloved woman....

Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and transcendental Japanese poems known as “Haiku”....

Recording of two women picking up olives in a park in Palma (Mallorca)....

"Mestre-espenya" is a self-portrait of Guillermo Amengual where he talks and thinks about his childhood and all the themes that have always been present in his life and films: death, family and innocence....

A collage of images, thoughts and letters that seek to find the meaning of "ugliness" seen through time. The film pays an homage to Jean-Luc Godard's film-collages such as "Histoire(s) du cinema" (1988-1998) and "The image book" (2018) using differe...

War and violence. Among all, the birht of cinema. After all, war and violence. "The wind blows wherever it pleases." (John 3:8)...