Amalia Ulman's El Planeta is now showing exclusively on MUBI in many countries—including Canada, India, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, and France—in the series Debuts.
Courtesy of Rob Kulisek.
Despite the small budget we had to shoot El Planeta, I decided to allocate some of it to invite a few of my talented friends to Gijón so we could make a publication about the film. Some of the guests were photographers, like Rob Kulisek, Bruno Zhu, and Alice Neale. And the other two were writers, Natasha Stagg and Dean Kissick. It didn't seem like much at the time, but after the pandemic happened it was clear to me that it had been one of the smartest decisions I had ever made, since the possibility to easily travel to Asturias in 2020 seemed like a strange utopian dream from a time long gone.
Here, I made a selection of my favorite pictures that both Bruno Zhu and Rob Kulisek took in Gijón before we started shooting the film. At the end is a newspaper clipping from when my mother, here in character as María Rendueles, attended the Princess of Asturias Awards disguised as a royalist.
Courtesy of Rob Kulisek.
Courtesy of Bruno Zhu.
Courtesy of Rob Kulisek.
Courtesy of Bruno Zhu.
Courtesy of Rob Kulisek.
Courtesy of Bruno Zhu.
Courtesy of Rob Kulisek.
Courtesy of Bruno Zhu.
Courtesy of Rob Kulisek.
Courtesy of Bruno Zhu.
Courtesy of Rob Kulisek.
Courtesy of Bruno Zhu.
Courtesy of Rob Kulisek.
Courtesy of Bruno Zhu.
Courtesy of Rob Kulisek.
Clipping from La Voz De Asturias.