Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait - Movie

Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait

Ventura Pons
Documentary : 85’ / Identity, Art & Artists, Activism, Portrait, Performance

An intimate portrait of Andalusian painter José Pérez Ocaña, an artist who left his trail on the Ramblas and on the Plaza Real in Barcelona in the late 1970s – a city brimming with a thirst for freedom and a vibrant cultural life at that time. A fragmented portrait, punctuated by the provocations of memory: Ocaña, at home, tells us about his life and, at the same time, in flashes, we glimpse the world that emerges from his subconscious. The documentary is screened in its recently restored version.

Sections: QL - Retrospective
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/ Details

Year: 1978

Country: Spain

Language: catalan and spanish

Subtitles: english

With: José Pérez Ocaña

/ Direction

Ventura Pons

Spain

Ventura Pons (Barcelona, 1945-2024) was a director, scriptwriter, and film producer. In 1977, after an initial decade in which he directed some twenty plays, he made his first film, "Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait", which was in the Official Selection of the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. His twenty-five feature films have been shown at many international festivals, especially the Berlinale. He has adapted for the screen works by Quim Monzó, Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, Sergi Belbel, Lluís-Anton Baulenas, Jordi Puntí, Ferran Torrent, and Lluïsa Cunillé. His films frequently deal with desire, sex, gender problems, and LGBTQIA+ issues.