Bilbao

Spain

1978

93 Min

Color

Catalan, Spanish

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CAST Àngel Jové, Isabel Pisano, María Martín, Maite Cabello, Pep Castelló

Leo suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder because of Bilbao, a stripper and prostitute in the Chinatown district, Barcelona. Leo designs a thorough plan to include Bilbao in his collection of erotic articles. Hidden behind his sunglasses, as a detective, Leo follows Bilbao around the city. He chases Bilbao up to her house, he takes pictures of her, he keeps the newspaper cuttings in which she appears and he acquires any object related to her.

However, Leo lives with María. She is a few years older than him and she feels strongly sexually attracted to him. But he rejects her because of his delirious passion for Bilbao. Prepared to carry out his plan, Leo drugs and kidnaps Bilbao in order to take her to a house. She is sodomized by Leo and, by chance, she suffers an accident and dies. Finally, Leo – overwhelmed by fear – turns to María. Together with the help of the main character’s uncle, they get rid of the corpse.

Director

Bigas Luna

Juan José Bigas Luna (19 March 1946 – 6 April 2013) was a Spanish film director.

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 1960s, he showed a great interest in conceptual art and the emerging visual technologies. Esteemed as an atypical director in the Spanish cinema, in 1986 he retired to Tarragona in order to devote his time to painting. In 1990 the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez persuaded him to return to cinema and entrusted to him the direction of Las edades de Lulú, 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 (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 experimentation and audiovisual… read more

Juan José Bigas Luna (19 March 1946 – 6 April 2013) was a Spanish film director.

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 1960s, he showed a great interest in conceptual art and the emerging visual technologies. Esteemed as an atypical director in the Spanish cinema, in 1986 he retired to Tarragona in order to devote his time to painting. In 1990 the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez persuaded him to return to cinema and entrusted to him the direction of Las edades de Lulú, 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 (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 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 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.

Bigas Luna directed and produced a large-scale multimedia installation for the Spain Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010, named Origins, as the first part of the Pavilion’s trilogy on exhibition. The installation fused live Flamenco dance, sculpture and videos on more than 20 projectors.

From 2008 to 2012, Bigas took on the art direction of the oldest musical café in Europe, El Plata, in Zaragoza (Spain). There, he created a cabaret show classified as “Cabaret Ibérico” based on parodies, eroticism, the old burlesque, etc., accompanied by the typical dishes from Spain, such as paella, ham or Spanish omelette.

He died of leukemia on 5 April 2013, while working on the film adaptation of Manuel de Pedrolo’s novel Mecanoscrit del segon origen. —Wikipedia

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