Pere Portabella Movies

A tape recorder captures a voice (the narration is by Pere Portabella) rigorously and exhaustively reading all the symbols that appear in the piano...

Portabella’s first feature, co-scripted by poet Joan Brossa, became one of the most influential works of the Barcelona avant-garde, although...

Eight people from very different backgrounds cross paths in Barcelona, Spain. Lawyers, musicians, translators, security guards, call center agents....

An itinerary through the great creations of Catalan art: Romanesque, Gothic, Modernist and Contemporary; with interviews to Catalan creators such as...

The film is divided into two antithetical segments ‒ The first is made up of a couple of fixed shots of the pianist, Carles Santos, playing...

The film is part of the feature film "Hay motivo", made up of 32 short films directed by Spanish directors and actors against the policies of the...

Short film by Spanish/Catalan film maker Pere Portabella.

A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor--three characters, two couples--attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just...

Naked bodies are buffeted by water accompanied by the music Il Temporale from the opera La Cenerentola and the overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia...

a one-woman stage reading of a Joan Brossa play