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Carlos Atanes is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Editor and Sound Espagnol born on 8 november 1971 at Barcelona (Espagne)

Carlos Atanes

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Nationality Espagne
Birth 8 november 1971 (52 years) at Barcelona (Espagne)

Carlos Atanes (born November 8, 1971 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish film director, writer and playwright. His first finished feature-length movie is FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions, which he released in 2004. The movie won the Best Feature Film Award at the Athens Panorama of Independent Filmmakers in 2005 and was also nominated for the Méliès d'Argent at Fantasporto that same year.

Biography

Dès 1987 il a écrit et réalisé nombreuses œuvres appartenant différents genres et en divers formats : du Hi-8 au 35 mm. Son court métrage de fiction The Marvellous World of the Cucu Bird (Le merveilleux monde de l’Oiseau Cucu, 1991) a été suivi par d'autres films comme El Tenor Mental (Le Ténor Mental, 1993) et Borneo (1997), d'un caractère très expérimental. Ses productions de fiction — La Metamorfosis de Franz Kafka (1993), Morfing (1995), Metaminds & Metabodies (1995-1999) ou Welcome to Spain (1999) — témoignent de sa vision personnelle du cinéma et de la réalité (un style qui éveille autant d'adhésion que d'aversion). Réalisateur prolifique, Atanes a également une posture militante : il revendique la production indépendante, les films numériques et le genre de la science-fiction (ce qui est inhabituel dans le cinéma espagnol).

En 2003, il a commencé le tournage d’une sorte de « work in progress » sur le fameux magicien anglais Aleister Crowley. Le résultat a été le moyen métrage Perdurabo, la première partie du long métrage sur ce personnage qu'Atanes a repris en 2008.

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (2004), est le premier long métrage de Carlos Atanes, il s’agit d’une production avec un budget très limité, qui appartient à la tradition des dystopies. À travers des images inusuelles, le réalisateur nous présente une société matriarcale contrôlant une France totalitaire. En 2005, le film a gagné le Prix du meilleur long métrage au International Panorama of Independent Filmmakers (Grèce) et il a été aussi nommé au Méliès d’Argent de Fantasporto 2006 (Portugal). Le film sera distribué internationalement par la société américaine SRS Cinema à partir d'octobre 2005.

Avec son deuxième longmétrage Próxima, Carlos Atanes est revenu sur le genre de la science-fiction, mais avec une approche plus personnelle encore. Il est devenu le réalisateur espagnol qui a le plus travaillé ce genre.

Sa dernière production est Codex Atanicus. Il s’agit d’une recompilation des courts métrages qu’Atanes a tourné entre 1995 et 1999 et qui ont comme élément commun et fondamentaux le « bizarre ». Dans le Codex on retrouve les traits habituels au ce qui est bizarre, expérimental, sensuel… et il est en train de devenir une œuvre culte grâce aux commentaires et articles, vraiment enthousiastes, qu’ont écrits les critiques de films américains indépendants.


Œuvre cinématographique
Longs métrages
2012 : Gallino, the Chicken System
2010 : Maximum Shame
2007 : Próxima
2004 : FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
2003 : Perdurabo (Where is Aleister Crowley?)

Courts métrages, documentaires et autres
2017 : Romance bizarro
2008 : Scream Queen
2007 : Codex Atanicus (anthologie)
2007 : Made in PROXIMA
2000 : Cyberspace Under Control
1999 : Welcome to Spain
1998 : Die Sieben Hügel Rom's
1997 : Borneo
1996 : Morfing
1995 : Metaminds & Metabodies
1995 : Triptico (long métrage inachevé)
1993 : The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka (d'après le roman de Franz Kafka)
1993 : El Tenor Mental
1992 : El Parc, (d'après la pièce de Botho Strauss)
1991 : Els Peixos Argentats a la Peixera, (d'après la poésie scénique de Joan Brossa)
1991 : The Marvellous World of the Cucu Bird
1991 : Romanzio in il sècolo ventuno
1990 : Morir de calor
1990 : Le descente à l'enfer d'un poète
1989 : La Ira
Œuvre dramatique
2019 : Antimateria, El Sauzal (Tenerife)
2019 : ¿Hasta cuándo estáis?, Madrid
2019 : A Praga y vámonos, Madrid
2018 : Amaya Galeote's La incapacidad de exprimirte, Madrid
2018 : La línea del horizonte, Madrid
2018 : Chéjov bajo cero, Málaga
2017 : Sexo y tortilla, Madrid
2017 : Pasión mostrenca, Madrid
2016 : La abuela de Frankenstein, Madrid
2016 : Love is in the box, Madrid
2015 : Caminando por el valle inquietante, Madrid
2015 : Un genio olvidado (Un rato en la vida de Charles Howard Hinton), Madrid
2015 : Santos varones, Madrid
2015 : Porno emocional, Madrid
2014 : La quinta estación del puto Vivaldi, Madrid
2014 : El grifo de 5.000.000 euros, Madrid
2014 : El vello público, Madrid
2014 : Los ciclos atánicos, Madrid
2013 : El triunfo de la mediocridad, Madrid
2013 : Necrofilia fina, Madrid
2013 : Secretitos, Madrid
2013 : Romance bizarro, Madrid
2012 : La lluvia, Madrid
2012 : La depredadora, Leganés (Madrid)
2011 : El hombre de la pistola de nata, Madrid
2011 : La cobra en la cesta de mimbre, Madrid
Œuvres publiées par Carlos Atanes
Los Trabajos del Director: En la cocina del cine (muy) independiente, Ed. CreateSpace, 2007
El Hombre de la Pistola de Nata (pièce en trois actes) 2003, Ed. CreateSpace, 2007
Confutatis Maledictis (roman), 2002, Ed. CreateSpace 2007
La Cobra en la Cesta de Mimbre (pièce en dix scènes), 2002, Ed. CreateSpace 2007
La Bestia en la pantalla. Aleister Crowley y el cine fantástico (plusieurs auteurs), Ed. E.P.E. Donostia Kultura, 2010, Ed. CreateSpace 2007
Combustión espontánea de un jurado (roman), 2001, Ed. CreateSpace 2012
Aleister Crowley in the Mouth of Hell: The screenplay never filmed, Ed. CreateSpace, 2013
Un genio olvidado (Un rato en la vida de Charles Howard Hinton), Ed. CreateSpace, 2017
Demos lo que sobre a los perros, Ed. CreateSpace, 2018
Magia del Caos para escépticos, Ed. Dilatando Mentes 2018
De Arrebato a Zulueta (plusieurs auteurs), Ed.

Usually with

Arantxa Peña
Arantxa Peña
(2 films)
Eleanor James
Eleanor James
(1 films)
Marina Gatell
Marina Gatell
(1 films)
Abel Folk
Abel Folk
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Carlos Atanes (4 films)

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Actor

Codex Atanicus, 1h21
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin Espagne
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Actors Arantxa Peña, Carlos Atanes
Rating78% 3.911973.911973.911973.911973.91197
After a brief introduction by Arantxa Peña (usual actress in "atanic" films who locates us into the "atanic" universe), we can see three stories: Metaminds & Metabodies (1995), a crazy and very violent tale about how a sick drunkard meets a lascivious succubus into a hideous tavern's mirror; Morfing (1996), an Atanes' grotesque trip through independent cinema's sewers; and Welcome to Spain (1999), a bloody and lustful nightmare where some people fight for an absurdity: to go up the stairs.

Director

Maximum Shame, 1h21
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Themes Musical films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Marina Gatell, Eleanor James
Rating29% 1.474731.474731.474731.474731.47473
The end of the world is imminent. A man goes into a parallel dimension, a limbo between reality and fantasy where the normal rules of time and space have ceased to apply. His wife goes to rescue him. Both will be trapped in a strange and cruel world where a ruthless Queen organizes reality as a mad game of chess, a post-apocalyptic dystopia of domination and subjugation where characters can’t eat, speak or move about freely and are periodically viciously attacked.
Codex Atanicus, 1h21
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin Espagne
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Actors Arantxa Peña, Carlos Atanes
Rating78% 3.911973.911973.911973.911973.91197
After a brief introduction by Arantxa Peña (usual actress in "atanic" films who locates us into the "atanic" universe), we can see three stories: Metaminds & Metabodies (1995), a crazy and very violent tale about how a sick drunkard meets a lascivious succubus into a hideous tavern's mirror; Morfing (1996), an Atanes' grotesque trip through independent cinema's sewers; and Welcome to Spain (1999), a bloody and lustful nightmare where some people fight for an absurdity: to go up the stairs.
Próxima
Próxima (2007)
, 1h56
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin Espagne
Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films
Actors Arantxa Peña, Abel Folk
Rating48% 2.4155652.4155652.4155652.4155652.415565
Tony (Oriol Aubets) runs a small science fiction video store bordering on bankruptcy; his relationship with Natalia (Karen Owens) is getting worse as time goes by, because their interests have diverged. One day, Tony goes to a science fiction convention where a well-known writer Félix Cadecq's (Manuel Solàs) comes to give a chat on his latest work. When he starts his speech, the writer makes a surprising declaration: it's worthless to keep writing science fiction novels, because he has found a new portal; a real and simple way to reach the stars. "Listen to my new CD-book and try it yourself", he proclaims. This announcement is not well received among his estranged fans; but Tony, touched by curiosity, buys Cadecq's CD in order to test what he said.
Frequently Asked Questions, 1h22
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Political films, Dystopian films
Rating37% 1.875471.875471.875471.875471.87547
France, sometime in the near future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the Order but her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.

Scriptwriter

Maximum Shame, 1h21
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Themes Musical films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Marina Gatell, Eleanor James
Roles Writer
Rating29% 1.474731.474731.474731.474731.47473
The end of the world is imminent. A man goes into a parallel dimension, a limbo between reality and fantasy where the normal rules of time and space have ceased to apply. His wife goes to rescue him. Both will be trapped in a strange and cruel world where a ruthless Queen organizes reality as a mad game of chess, a post-apocalyptic dystopia of domination and subjugation where characters can’t eat, speak or move about freely and are periodically viciously attacked.
Codex Atanicus, 1h21
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin Espagne
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Actors Arantxa Peña, Carlos Atanes
Roles Writer
Rating78% 3.911973.911973.911973.911973.91197
After a brief introduction by Arantxa Peña (usual actress in "atanic" films who locates us into the "atanic" universe), we can see three stories: Metaminds & Metabodies (1995), a crazy and very violent tale about how a sick drunkard meets a lascivious succubus into a hideous tavern's mirror; Morfing (1996), an Atanes' grotesque trip through independent cinema's sewers; and Welcome to Spain (1999), a bloody and lustful nightmare where some people fight for an absurdity: to go up the stairs.
Próxima
Próxima (2007)
, 1h56
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin Espagne
Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films
Actors Arantxa Peña, Abel Folk
Roles Writer
Rating48% 2.4155652.4155652.4155652.4155652.415565
Tony (Oriol Aubets) runs a small science fiction video store bordering on bankruptcy; his relationship with Natalia (Karen Owens) is getting worse as time goes by, because their interests have diverged. One day, Tony goes to a science fiction convention where a well-known writer Félix Cadecq's (Manuel Solàs) comes to give a chat on his latest work. When he starts his speech, the writer makes a surprising declaration: it's worthless to keep writing science fiction novels, because he has found a new portal; a real and simple way to reach the stars. "Listen to my new CD-book and try it yourself", he proclaims. This announcement is not well received among his estranged fans; but Tony, touched by curiosity, buys Cadecq's CD in order to test what he said.
Frequently Asked Questions, 1h22
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Political films, Dystopian films
Roles Writer
Rating37% 1.875471.875471.875471.875471.87547
France, sometime in the near future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the Order but her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.

Producer

Maximum Shame, 1h21
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Themes Musical films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Marina Gatell, Eleanor James
Roles Producer
Rating29% 1.474731.474731.474731.474731.47473
The end of the world is imminent. A man goes into a parallel dimension, a limbo between reality and fantasy where the normal rules of time and space have ceased to apply. His wife goes to rescue him. Both will be trapped in a strange and cruel world where a ruthless Queen organizes reality as a mad game of chess, a post-apocalyptic dystopia of domination and subjugation where characters can’t eat, speak or move about freely and are periodically viciously attacked.
Codex Atanicus, 1h21
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin Espagne
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Actors Arantxa Peña, Carlos Atanes
Roles Producer
Rating78% 3.911973.911973.911973.911973.91197
After a brief introduction by Arantxa Peña (usual actress in "atanic" films who locates us into the "atanic" universe), we can see three stories: Metaminds & Metabodies (1995), a crazy and very violent tale about how a sick drunkard meets a lascivious succubus into a hideous tavern's mirror; Morfing (1996), an Atanes' grotesque trip through independent cinema's sewers; and Welcome to Spain (1999), a bloody and lustful nightmare where some people fight for an absurdity: to go up the stairs.
Frequently Asked Questions, 1h22
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Political films, Dystopian films
Roles Producer
Rating37% 1.875471.875471.875471.875471.87547
France, sometime in the near future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the Order but her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.

Editor

Maximum Shame, 1h21
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Themes Musical films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Marina Gatell, Eleanor James
Roles Editor
Rating29% 1.474731.474731.474731.474731.47473
The end of the world is imminent. A man goes into a parallel dimension, a limbo between reality and fantasy where the normal rules of time and space have ceased to apply. His wife goes to rescue him. Both will be trapped in a strange and cruel world where a ruthless Queen organizes reality as a mad game of chess, a post-apocalyptic dystopia of domination and subjugation where characters can’t eat, speak or move about freely and are periodically viciously attacked.
Próxima
Próxima (2007)
, 1h56
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin Espagne
Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films
Actors Arantxa Peña, Abel Folk
Roles Editor
Rating48% 2.4155652.4155652.4155652.4155652.415565
Tony (Oriol Aubets) runs a small science fiction video store bordering on bankruptcy; his relationship with Natalia (Karen Owens) is getting worse as time goes by, because their interests have diverged. One day, Tony goes to a science fiction convention where a well-known writer Félix Cadecq's (Manuel Solàs) comes to give a chat on his latest work. When he starts his speech, the writer makes a surprising declaration: it's worthless to keep writing science fiction novels, because he has found a new portal; a real and simple way to reach the stars. "Listen to my new CD-book and try it yourself", he proclaims. This announcement is not well received among his estranged fans; but Tony, touched by curiosity, buys Cadecq's CD in order to test what he said.

Sound

Codex Atanicus, 1h21
Directed by Carlos Atanes
Origin Espagne
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Actors Arantxa Peña, Carlos Atanes
Roles Music
Rating78% 3.911973.911973.911973.911973.91197
After a brief introduction by Arantxa Peña (usual actress in "atanic" films who locates us into the "atanic" universe), we can see three stories: Metaminds & Metabodies (1995), a crazy and very violent tale about how a sick drunkard meets a lascivious succubus into a hideous tavern's mirror; Morfing (1996), an Atanes' grotesque trip through independent cinema's sewers; and Welcome to Spain (1999), a bloody and lustful nightmare where some people fight for an absurdity: to go up the stairs.