Films
CE GRAND PETIT ÊTRE / THAT BIG SMALL BEING - 2020 -
Director: Arturo Prins
Editor & Cinematographer: Arturo Prins
Genre: Documentary
Running time: 73 min.
A world historical moment. The portrait of a Nice paralyzed in quarantine. The small virus Cov-19, becomes a revolting giant on our planet. Its inhabitants secluded in their homes leave the streets deserted. From a terrace with a swimming pool, like James Stuart in the Hitchcock film "Rear window", a telephoto camera will film this confinement, its streets, its architectures, seagulls and landscapes day after day. The last day before the quarantine ends, the camera goes outside to meet the few who go to play sports or walk their children. They tell us about their feelings, their fears and doubts, and what they would say to the virus if they could talk to it. The landscapes also speak and nature especially, with its turquoise sea, the famous Promenade des Anglais and pebble beach, its alps, boats, lighthouses, tractors, gendarmerie helicopters, docks and airports paralyzed, we will discover an incredible Nice, never seen before, like a ghost town.
STATE OF IMPURITY / ESTADO IMPURO - 2019 -
Director:
Screenwriter: Juan Carlos Sampedro y Arturo Prins
Genre: Fiction / Drama
Running time: 142 min.
In the farm of Daniel, a young painter and beekeeper, two friend couples were invited by him to enjoy his lunch. The day goes smoothly. Married couples are composed of a gray lawyer Esteban and his frustrated wife Natalia, and a perfectionist engineer Francis and his beautiful young and inquisitive wife, Paola. Everything begins to change when two friends of Daniel arrives, a brilliant and famous international actress, Alexia, with his handsome and mysterious companion Jacobo.
To the dismay of all, they discover that the three are a throuple or a trigamy. But when the situation seems to normalize the provocative actress reveals the real reason why Daniel has invited all to his farm, to offer them a special gift: an orgy with his beloved new girlfriend and actress. Everything will end in a big orgy ... and the peaceful lunch then becomes a devastating earthquake for marriages.
DAMN NEW YORK - 2019 -
Director: Arturo Prins
Screenwriter: Arturo Prins y Julio Camba
Genre: Documentary
Running time: 78 min.
Damn New York, is a letter-film based on the travel diaries of a painter during his stay in the city in 2012. His voice runs over an atypical Manhattan; a puzzle of interlocking neighbourhoods and people that belies the mirage of a city and its hypnosis, its disenchantment, the hidden face of its luminescence. An unlove story letter, far from postcards, a reflection of ambition. Damn New York could be the portrait of a disappointment, a city myth that slowly devours its inhabitants and requires them, a devilish contract that exhaust all its energies. Portrait of newyorkers and not its occasional tourist, those wills running after a desperate ambition. Succeed or survive. A trip to a harsh winter, not its low temperatures but the one you could suffer through its inhospitable cold citizens. New York is not what it was decades ago; their creativity and strength agonize.
UNDER THE BANYAN TREE - 2020 -
Director: Arturo Prins
Screenwriter: Arturo Prins
Genre: Documentary
Running time: 103 min.
“Under the banyan tree” is a documentary exploring the inner world, memories and experiences of a 103-year-old Philippine woman, Nana Jessie. The life of a woman who at 18 left her birthplace in Cuba, to travel across land and ocean all by herself, to meet her future husband, Marcial Lichauco, in Manila. This is the portrait of a life full of adventure and unusual situations, embracing from before World War II to the present day. A house packed with old books, antiques, exotic objects, stuffed wild animals, photo albums, cats, dogs and a huge two hundred year old banyan tree next to the Pasig River, will be the supporting actors at the background of her memories. Through them and a clownish historical guide named Carlos Celdrán, we will discover the history of a country, the traces of the Spanish and North American colonization, as well as the violent Japanese invasion during World War II.
AUTOPSIA DE UN AMOR - 2013 -
Director: Arturo Prins
Screenwriter: Arturo Prins
Genre: Documentary
Running time: 106 min.
An artist, emotionally numb after his girlfriend broke-up with him, goes around in despair, questioning different people, until he finally reaches a liberating conclusion. This documentary explores, based on the loss of a relationship, the reasons behind the collapse of known love archetypes. A desperate man, obsessed by his lost love. Psychologists, attorneys, youngsters, aged couples, single and married persons, and priests give their opinions on why loving relationships fail. Certain strange, bitter and disenchanted muses speaking the language of love, sprinkle here and there suggestions for new erotic experiences, dismantling old-fashioned models, based on Michel Onfray´s work "Théorie du corps amoureux: pour une érotique solaire".
THE CONSUL, THE ARTIST - 2019 -
Director: Arturo Prins
Screenwriters: Arturo Prins and Matias Babino
Genre: Documentary
Running time: 146 min.
Matias is a consul doomed to his daily work in foreign ministries and embassies around the world. Deeply he hates his job, except for his salary, with which he can financially support his family and have a state of comfortable and safe life. But behind this monotonous life, an art vocation fails. Through his visits to New York and Thailand with an artist friend, we will discover his talent for painting and his appetite to become an artist. However, this call can be turned off at any time.
Boomerang 11M - 2008 -
Director: Arturo Prins
Edition: Arturo Prins
Genre: Documentary
Running time: 75 min.
The major terrorist attack that Spain has experienced, the fateful March 11, 2004, and the social and political turmoil resulted in the following days, serve as an argument for a documentary that tries to find causes and consequences of what happened. The story goes back to the beginning of the Iraq war and the controversial meeting in the Azores islands between Aznar, Bush and Blair presidents. Bomerang 11M tries to explain why Spain became the target of Islamist terrorism, and how the government handled the tragedy before their president elections. This documentary is directly inspired by the movie "Redacted" by Brian de Palma. Arturo Prins, recognizes that after watching the film he felt he had to do something similar in Spain, with the terrible attack of the 11M, and the management of the tragedy by the Aznar conservative government. We go back to the beginning of the Iraq war supported by the controversial Bush-Blair-Aznar presidents, comparing it with the Vietnam fiasco.
