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Juan José Bigas Luna (Barcelona
Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
, March 19, 1946) is a Catalan
Catalan people

The Catalans are the people from Catalonia, an Autonomous Community of Spain, including people originating in that region but living elsewhere. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France ? known in Catalonia proper as Catalunya Nord , and in France as the Pays Catalan ? are often included in this definition....
 film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
. He began his professional career in the design world, creating the Estudio Gris with Carlos Riart in 1969. In his earlier exhibitions, at the beginning of the sixties
1960s

The 1960s list of decades were the years from the start of 1960 to the end of 1969. The term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends in the west, particularly United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Spain, Italy, and Ger...
, he showed a great interest in conceptual art
Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional Aesthetics and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called Installation art, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions....
 and the emerging visual technologies. Esteemed as an atypical director in the Spanish cinema, in 1986 he retired to Tarragona
Tarragona

Tarragona is a city located in the south of Catalonia and east of Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the Spanish Tarragona and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragon?s....
 in order to devote his time to painting.






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Juan José Bigas Luna (Barcelona
Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
, March 19, 1946) is a Catalan
Catalan people

The Catalans are the people from Catalonia, an Autonomous Community of Spain, including people originating in that region but living elsewhere. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France ? known in Catalonia proper as Catalunya Nord , and in France as the Pays Catalan ? are often included in this definition....
 film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
. He began his professional career in the design world, creating the Estudio Gris with Carlos Riart in 1969. In his earlier exhibitions, at the beginning of the sixties
1960s

The 1960s list of decades were the years from the start of 1960 to the end of 1969. The term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends in the west, particularly United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Spain, Italy, and Ger...
, he showed a great interest in conceptual art
Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional Aesthetics and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called Installation art, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions....
 and the emerging visual technologies. Esteemed as an atypical director in the Spanish cinema, in 1986 he retired to Tarragona
Tarragona

Tarragona is a city located in the south of Catalonia and east of Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the Spanish Tarragona and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragon?s....
 in order to devote his time to painting. In 1990 the producer
Film producer

A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
 Andrés Vicente Gómez
Andrés Vicente Gómez

Andr?s Vicente G?mez is a Spanish film producer. he is the manager of Lolafilms.He is married with journalist and tv conductor Concha Garc?a Campoy....
 persuaded him to return to cinema and entrusted to him the direction of Las edades de Lulú (film), a film which reached the general public. Without abandoning his dedication to painting and photography, reflected in numerous exhibitions, he began the well-known Trilogía Ibérica with Jamón Jamón (1992), Huevos de Oro
Huevos de oro

Huevos de oro is a 1993 in film Cinema of Spain directed by Bigas Luna, starring Javier Bardem, Alessandro Gassman, Maribel Verd? and Benicio del Toro....
 (1993) and La teta y la luna (1994). Subsequently, with the short film for internet Collar de Moscas (2001), he revived his interest in avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 experimentation and audiovisual formats and at the same time he discovered a vocation for the investigation of digital cinema after the creation of the Taller Bigas Luna project with Catalina Pons in 1999. The experience in the Taller introduced them to the world of new technologies and in 2002 they promoted PLATAFORM BL, dedicated to the creation and promotion of innovative projects and new talents.

Bigas Luna's varied career as a filmmaker, painter and designer has made him a very singular and interdisciplinary artist. An example of that is his project called "Microcosmos", an evolution of the earlier Cares de l'Ànima which was exhibited in the Galería Metropolitana de Barcelona in 1990. It can now be found on a web site (see external links below), where the visitor can modify and select the works and become, in this way, the creator.

Filmography

  • Historias impúdicas, director
  • Tatuaje (1976), director
  • Bilbao (1978), director
  • Caniche (1979), director
  • Renacer (1981), director
  • Lola (1986), director
  • Anguish
    Anguish (film)

    Anguish is a 1987 in film Spanish produced horror film starring Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul, Angel Jove and Clara Pastor....
     (1987), guionista y director
  • Las edades de Lulú (1990), director
  • Jamón, jamón
    Jamón, jamón

    Jam?n, jam?n is a 1992 Cinema of Spain drama/comedy film directed by Bigas Luna and starring Javier Bardem, Jordi Moll? and Pen?lope Cruz . It centers around a young woman named Silvia ....
     (1992), director
  • Huevos de oro
    Huevos de oro

    Huevos de oro is a 1993 in film Cinema of Spain directed by Bigas Luna, starring Javier Bardem, Alessandro Gassman, Maribel Verd? and Benicio del Toro....
     (1993), director
  • La teta y la luna (1994), director
  • Lumière et compagnie (1996), director
  • Bámbola (1996), director
  • La camarera del Titanic (1997), director
  • Volavérunt (1999), director
  • Son de mar
    Son de Mar (film)

    Son de Mar is a Spain drama film / erotic film directed by Juan Jos? Bigas Luna.It revolves around Odysseus , who comes to a fishers town to teach literature at a local high school....
     (2001), director
  • Yo soy la Juani
    Yo soy la Juani

    Yo soy la Juani is a 2006 in film Spain comedy- drama film written and directed by Bigas Luna....
     (2006), director


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