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Victor Erice Aras (June 30, 1940 -) Spanish director, his main works include "Hive Ghost" (1973) and "South" (1983), of which "Hive Ghost" is known as the history of Spanish cinema The best work.
Early experiences
Victor Ailes was born in Calantsa Arana, in the Basque Country of Vizcaya, Spain. A few months after his birth, he and his family moved to San Sebastian, until he went to Madrid to study for a bachelor's degree at the age of 17. Then settled in Madrid.
movie experience
Iris studied law and political science at the Complutense University of Madrid in his early years, and then, in 1961, at the Spanish Academy of Cinematography. [2] He has written film reviews for magazines such as "Cuadernos de arte y pensamiento o Nuestro cine", and worked as a screenwriter, actor, etc., and worked for Miguel Picazo. Written by Antonio Eceiza and starring in the work of Manuel Revuelta. In 1963, he completed his studies at the Spanish Academy of Cinema (Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía) and obtained a postgraduate diploma in directing. In his final year of school, his short-medium film "los dias perdidos" (los dias perdidos) was selected for the 6th San Sebastian Film Festival and the Circle of Cinematographers (CEC) on behalf of the Spanish Film Academy.
In 1969 he directed the feature film "Los desafios" with Claudio Guerin and Jose Luis Egea, which won the Best Actor and Best Screenplay awards at the San Sebastian Film Festival in the Cinematography Artists section.
The Hive Ghost (1973)
In 1973, he directed his first feature film "Hive Ghost". Originally conceived with screenwriter Angel Fernandez-Santos as a higher-budget, more expressionistic black-and-white horror film. Later, due to limited budgets, the duo decided to take a more personal and less fantastical style. Producer Elias Querejeta was intrigued by the story after only reading five pages of the description. They then decided to switch to color photography for commercial reasons, which meant that director of photography Luis Cuadrado had to experiment with a range of characteristic warm colors. Ghost of the Beehive starred Fernando Fernan Gomez and Ana Torrent from the start. The film premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival and won the Golden Shell Award. In addition, it won the Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago Film Festival, the Best Film, Best Art and other five awards at the Turing Film Festival, and the CEC Best Director. and Best Film Award. In 2004, Ghost of the Beehive was reworked and re-released under the supervision of the director himself.
The South (1983)
Iris met and fell in love with the writer Adelaida Garcia Morales , who made the latter's "South" into an art film, by Iciar Bollain ( Iciar Bollain ), Omero Antonutti ( Omero Antonutti ) and La Starring Raraela Aparicio . The second feature film directed by Ailes was not released in full because producer Elias Querejeta blocked the full release. The producer believed that the existing material for the film was enough to tell a complete story, and due to time constraints, it had to be completed in a hurry. The South was a hit at the Cannes Film Festival , was nominated for the Palme d'Or and eventually won several awards, including the Golden Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival , the Best Film Award at the Bordeaux Film Festival , the Best Director Award at the Sao Paulo Film Festival and the CEC Best Film Award. Best Director Award. The acclaim made it impossible for "South" to actually complete the filming in the end. Ailes himself believed that the work was always unfinished. After "South," Ailes adapted Borges ' "Death and the Compass" and Garcia Morales' "Bene"; he has since collaborated with small producer El Silencio on another Garcia Morales novel, "The Water Monster's" The Silence (El Silencio de las sirenas) was eventually cancelled. Ailes ultimately did not publish any of these works, but resumed directing commercials and TV productions, and subsequently directed the dubbing of Bertolucci 's The Last Emperor .
"Dream of Light" (1992)
"Dream of Light" is the third and final feature film directed by Ailes. The film is a personal documentary about the realist painter Antonio Lopez . The origin of the work was a documentary film project by Iris about the painter Velazquez's painting Las Meninas. Ailes spent two years writing the script, but was nearing completion to discover that another director had already directed a film on the same subject. Iris was then invited by Spanish national television to direct a short documentary series about painters from all over the world produced by Luis Eduardo Aute. The series required the collaboration of the director and the painter, and Iris was responsible for the painting of Antonio Lopez's "La terreza de Lucio". In the end, the project died due to financial reasons, but the friendship between director Ailes and the painter Antonio Lopez continued. In the summer of 1990, Iris used notes and photography to document Lopez's four new paintings in downtown Madrid. After the project, Lopez shared with Iris that he wanted to paint the quince tree in his garden. The dream of the tree haunts. Inspired by this, they started shooting "Dream of Light" a week later. They produced it by themselves, without a line of lines and without any budget, just a very limited technical team and an ambitious artistic plan. The film premiered in Cannes (Grand Jury) [5] , Montevideo (Grand Jury) and Chicago (Golden Hugo). Twenty-five years later, the Cannes Film Festival selected the film as a classic, and Ailes took the opportunity to submit a digital remake, which included minor tweaks.
work
director
feature film
- 1973: The Hive Ghost, 97 minutes
- 1983: South, 94 minutes
- 1992: The Dream of Light, 135 minutes
other
- 1961: En la terraza, short film
- 1962: Entrevías, short film
- 1962: Páginas de un diario perdido, short film
- 1963: Los Días perdidos, short medium (41 minutes)
- 1969: Los Desafíos, episode 3, co-directors: C. Guérin & JL Egea (102 minutes)
- 1990: Apuntes 1990 - 2003, video (28:30)
- 1996: "Preguntas al atardecer", TV series "Memorial Film 101", video (6 min)
- 2002: "Alumbramiento", short film (10 minutes), excerpt from the film "Ten minutes to grow old: trumpet chapter"
- 2005 / 2007: "The Wild Goose Shows Love: Films Between Victor Ailes and Abbas Chiarostami", curated by the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture, re-screened at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2008
- 2005: Memoria y sueño, video, documentary TV series
- 2006: Red Reaper, video (34 min)
- 2011: 3.11 Feeling at home, short film in Kawase Naomi's proposed co-director
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