Gonzalo García-Pelayo
A film director sets out on a road trip to scout locations for her next film. An admirer of Resnais and experimental cinema, she tries to create a story in which her own story is mixed with that of a singer with whom she had a relationship in the past.
Making-of of an explicit film in which the plot is intertwined and confused with what happens behind the scenes.
Javier has heard of El Pelícano, an old industrial warehouse corralón in the center of Seville, in which a diverse group of artists, musicians, painters and craftsmen interrelate forming a free, fruitful and luminous community. In this "world apart" live peculiar characters such as El Canijo de Jerez, Pepe Ortega, Orlando, La Chocolata, Chipi, José Guapachá, Miriam y Rorro, Marta, Perpetuo, Jeri, Ana and many others, whom we will get to know in a Tour through the alleys of this popular space where Art looks for you and finds you.
After filming in Seville, García Pelayo and his team moved to Kazakhstan to shoot Ainur, a film about " love, moderna arquitectura, echoes and bicycles” (G. G. P. dixit). Víctor (Víctor Vázquez, El brau blau, La vida sublime), who lost the love of his life in an accident, Ainur, a young Kazakh, returns in search of his tracks to that country with his friend Pablo, secretly in love with Ainur, and his new girlfriend, Olivia, who prepares a documentary about the city, a mixture of tradition and avant-garde.
Lola and Luis are married until Manuel shows up and grabs Lola (and Trini, a florist friend and also a singer). This story of torn love will seem like the lyrics of a copla, the Spanish music genre to which both are dedicated, songs that border on love until death and that classically represent the absolute surrender of women to love. This love for Manuel divides the marriage and the friends.
Nacha, a secondary character in 'Copla', narrates the real interiorities of the Luis-Lola couple in their love crisis with the arrival of Manuel. The story unfolds differently from what happened in 'Copla', because Luis comes to the conclusion that he loves that Lola is loved by Manuel. Everything happens during the preparation and filming of 'Copla'.
Diptych with Rocío y José on the experience of El Rocío, Tres caminos al Rocío preserves the calm and contained gaze of that one. Continuing with that tension between the popular of Pasolini and the heroic of John Ford, as the critics of the time pointed out, it includes the winter pilgrimage along the roads of Seville, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Huelva.
One of the oldest pilgrimages known to European Christianity is the pilgrimage to El Rocío, where prayers are said to the benevolent Blanca Paloma. Year after year, pilgrimage trains of more than a million believers set out to visit the small, remote andalusian village, which is normally inhabited by less than a thousand souls. In this film, the story of shy infatuation developing between two young people is little more than García Pelayo’s pretext to shooting this event in each and every detail. - Viennale
Miguel, who escaped from prison two months before finishing his sentence, thinks only of revenge and finding his beloved Diana.
A group of people, both men and women, get together to exchange their points of view, practical and theoretical, about sexual life and the relations between couples.
Miguel is in love with Rosa, a special woman. The relationship did not work at all and decide to break. Rosa then falls for a Sevillian painter who has returned after forty years of exile.
Super-8 shot by Gonzalo García-Pelayo with a series of concerts at the famous Dom Gonzalo nightclub, named after the “holy right to have fun” of Dómine Gonzalo de Berceo. The club will become a gathering place for the counterculture, but also for the ruling party to come, as marked by the presence of young Felipe González and Alfonso Guerra.
