JUAN SEBASTIÁN BOLLAÍN. YOUTH SHORT FILMS

Juan Sebastián Bollaín, the dreamer of Seville's utopias, a groundbreaking and ingenious filmmaker, architect and urban planner, started in cinema thanks to an 8mm camera that he received as a gift in 1960, at the age of 14. That was how he "invented cinema". Today we have the opportunity to finally see five of those first works, so far unpublished, in digitized versions by the Filmoteca de Andalucía. Five pieces of work in which we can clearly see the antecedents of his unmistakable style, full of future.

NO
Juan Sebastián Bollaín | Spain | 1968 | 6 min.
O.V. in Spanish

An exercise in cinematographic language with a restless, emphatic camera and minimalist editing. A girl suffers the challenges of life, which puts metaphorical obstacles in her path, without the possibility of rectifying or turning back from what she has already lived.

ESTE PERRO COLEGIO
Juan Sebastián Bollaín | Spain | 1964 | 19 min.
O.V. in Spanish

One year living with students in a high school allows the 19-year-old director to collect images and sounds of scenes of a spontaneous or provoked nature, which he then assembles in an unpretentious montage.

MIS GUARDAS 
Juan Sebastián Bollaín | Spain | 1974 | 25 min.
O.V. in Spanish

The metaphorical images of a man's progressive emotional blockage as consequence of a repressive upbringing. In a farm, near the Guadarrama mountain range, the director (who plays himself) makes successive approximations to his "humble servants" with tortured and absurd strategies.

ESTE ES MI HIJO MUY AMADO
Juan Sebastián Bollaín | Spain | 1976 | 2 min.
O.V. in Spanish

In a very risky netless jump from tenderness to violence, this film raises the issue of the ethics of an artistic product in relation to the ethics of reality.

UNA HABITACIÓN LLENA DE HUMO
Juan Sebastián Bollaín | Spain | 1964 | 18 min.
O.V. in Spanish

A student whose obligations far exceed his will to live is repeatedly assaulted by guilt. This short film was awarded the First Prize of the CEC of Barcelona, praising the "full of strength" language and the "authenticity" of its young director.