Carlos Atanes

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Carlos Atanes (born November 8, 1971) is an Spanish film director and writer.

Born in Barcelona, Spain, Atanes has written and directed many works since 1987, using different genres and techniques (Hi-8 video, 35mm., etc). In 1991, he shoots The Marvellous World of the Cucu Bird, which has been followed by another experimental works as El Tenor Mental (1993) and Borneo (1997). Some fiction productions like La Metamorfosis de Franz Kafka (1993), Morfing (1995), Metaminds & Metabodies (1995-1999) or Welcome to Spain (1999) show us a particular vision about cinema and, also, about reality (with a style that provokes adhesions but aversions too). He is a controversial filmmaker and a cultural activist, who has always vindicates the independent production, digital film and science fiction genre (a kind of cinema very unusual in Spain). In 2003 he started a work about the famous British magician Aleister Crowley, and the outcome was Perdurabo, a medium-length (40 min.) film, which will be the first part of a feature-length movie when Atanes will retake the project.

His first finished feature-length movie is FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (2004), a low-budget film about a cold european dystopia which shows his eye for unusual imagery. It won the Best Feature Film Award at the Athens Panorama of Independent Filmmakers (Greece, 2005), and was also nominated to the Méliès d'Argent at Fantasporto (2005).

With PROXIMA (2007) he has grown to currently become the Spanish science fiction filmmaker par excellence.

In 2008 he collects his three most wild, bizarre and underground shortfilms into the CODEX ATANICUS, an anthology which is on its way to becoming a cult film, judging by enthusiastic reviews written by American indy movie critics.

1 Filmography as director
2 Bibliography
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Filmography as director

FEATURE MOVIES:

2007 - PROXIMA
2004 - FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

SHORT FILMS, DOCUMENTARIES AND OTHERS:

2008 - CODEX ATANICUS (anthology)
2007 - Made in PROXIMA
2003 - Perdurabo at the Internet Movie Database
1999 - Cyberspace Under Control at the Internet Movie Database
1999 - Welcome to Spain at the Internet Movie Database
1999 - Metaminds & Metabodies at the Internet Movie Database
1998 - Die Sieben Hügel Rom's at the Internet Movie Database
1997 - Borneo (at Revver)
1996 - Morfing at the Internet Movie Database
1993 - The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka (at Youtube)
1993 - El Tenor Mental at the Internet Movie Database
1992 - El Parc at the Internet Movie Database
1991 - Els Peixos Argentats a la Peixera at the Internet Movie Database
1991 - The Marvellous World of the Cucu Bird at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] Bibliography

Atanes, Carlos (2007) - Los trabajos del director (Essay) - ISBN-13: 978-1434818706
Atanes, Carlos (2003) - El hombre de la pistola de nata (Theatre) - ISBN-13: 978-1434819031
Atanes, Carlos (2002) - Confutatis Maledictis (Novel) - ISBN-13: 978-1434819017
Atanes, Carlos (2002) - La cobra en la cesta de mimbre (Theatre) - ISBN-13: 978-1434819024