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All about Alberto Vásquez
Birdboy
Pedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez
- 2011
- Spain
- Animation / Adventure
- 13mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
After the explosion, Dinki and Birdboy, two solitary and rejected children, wander around, fantasizing about a better life. With their encounter as their only hope.
The matrix for Psiconautas, even more melancholic than its long version.
Credits
- With : Ana Lemos, Tacho González, Antón Rubal, Xermana Carballido, Matías Brea...
- Screenplay : Pedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez
- Photography : Alberto Vázquez
- Editing : Iván Miñambres
- Music by : Suso Sáiz
- Production : Iván Miñambres, Ignacio Paton, Marisa Rabanal, Guillermo Represa, Pedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez
Ramiro, sucia rata
Alberto Vázquez
- 2012
- Spain
- Animation / Comedy
- 1mn
- Original version with French subtitles
A few seconds spent with a rat who seems unable to control his impulses...
Sangre de unicornio
Alberto Vázquez
- 2013
- Spain
- Animation / Fantasy
- 9mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
A masterly prelude to Unicorn Wars (2022, in black, pink and blood, with a style and absurd pessimism that recall Roland Topor. Two bear cub siblings - one too gentle and the other as stupid as a man - go hunting for unicorns, the last of the species. Surprisingly, as in Ridley Scott’s Legend, the idea of an endangered world equilibrium is found here too.
Credits
- With : Lola Lorente, Borja Alonso Bas, Alberto Vázquez
- Screenplay : Pedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez
- Editing : Iván Miñambres
- Music by : Victor Garcia
- Production : Diana Cano, Iván Miñambres, Pedro Rivero
Decorado
Alberto Vázquez
- 2016
- Spain, France
- Animation
- 11mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Black and white
“Don’t you feel like everything around us is fake?” With a series of nightmarish sequences, Alberto Vazquez shows us terrible 2.0 solitudes unfiltered. His much recognizable little creatures attempt to survive in a 21st century nightmare, where ghosts masturbate on the net and owls make text message noises when they blink. “In this world, dreaming is impossible.”
Credits
- With : Josep Ramos, Mireia Faura, Angel Bernardi, Alberto Vázquez, Kepa Cueto
- Screenplay : Alberto Vázquez
- Editing : Iván Miñambres
- Music by : Víctor García
- Production : Chelo Loureiro, Iván Miñambres, Arturo Olea, Nicolas Schmerkin
Psiconautas
(Psiconautas, los niños olvidados)
Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero
- 2015
- Spain, Japan
- Animation / Science-fiction
- 1h16mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
On an apocalyptic looking island, two little beings flee, in search of a better destiny. They hope that Birdboy will join them on their journey.
Adapting his likewise titled graphic novel with Pedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez feigns to wander into fairy tale land to better plunge his little beat up characters into hell. Across funereal or dreamy horizons, filled with gloomy lighthouses and endless waste dumps, it’s really through our contemporary terror that Birdboy travels. Far from joyous entertainment for good children, closer to Roland Topor’s Fantastic Planet than to Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, this peregrination by candid souls searching for a way out ends up distilling an infinite sadness.
Credits
- Voiceover by : Andrea Alzuri, Eva Ojanguren, Josu Cubero, Félix Arcarazo, Jorge Carrero
- Screenplay : Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero
- Photography : Jose Domingo, Alberto Vázquez
- Editing : Iván Miñambres
- Music by : Aránzazu Calleja
- Production : Carlos Juárez, Íñigo Pérez Tabernero, Pedro Rivero, César Rodríguez, Luis Tosar, Alicia Veira
Homeless home
Alberto Vázquez
- 2020
- Spain, France
- Animation
- 15mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Black and white
Alberto Vázquez innovates by opting for an attraction to darkness, for streamlined silhouettes and shadows borrowed from medieval fantasy to address contemporary themes such as depopulation, the economic crisis or the need for a return to nature. We”re not far from Miyazaki.
Credits
- With : Ramón Barea, Kandido Uranga, Miguel Canalejo, Sonia Méndez, David Perdomo
- Screenplay : Alberto Vázquez
- Production : Iván Miñambres, Nicolas Schmerkin
Screenings
15/09 • 16h15 • Screen 300
In the presence of the director Alberto Vázquez and the producer Nicolas Schmerkin
