Carles Santos
Biography
Carles Santos (1 July 1940 – 4 December 2017) was a Spanish artist who began his career as a pianist and later worked in many other creative disciplines, including musical composition, filmmaking, screenwriting, acting, scenic musical shows, graphics, montage, sculpture, photography, poetry, and prose. He was married to artist and filmmaker Mariaelena Roqué.
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Film divided into three parts in which the Valencian musician Carles Santos explores various sonorities, using the image as a means of expression.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Self (archive footage)
Constel·lació Portabella traces the exciting life of the great Catalan film director and artist Pere Portabella , which traverses the cultural and political history of the country and the last seventy years, letting us be carried away by the passion, the intellect intelligence and curiosity.
Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of “the other” Spanish Cinema — films that brazenly explored their artistic, poetic and conceptual potential. Spanish experimental cinema can be glimpsed in a series of important yet isolated events that FRAGMENTS compiles through various firsthand accounts, film excerpts and documents. For the first time in Spain, a documentary brings together the most relevant of a cinema that is slowly losing its invisibility.
Movie - 2003, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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 both by Gioacchino Rossini.
Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Self
Carles Santos plays several of his pieces on the piano. This film was made for the exhibit on Carles Santos Visca el piano! held at the Miro Foundation in the summer of 2006.