Isaki Lacuesta
Isaki Lacuesta is a Spanish filmmaker from Catalonia, his work includes documentary film, narrative film and video art.
Works
Late Xou con Marc Giró
Marc Giró presents a very entertaining late night show with interviews with prominent personalities from the world of cinema, theatre, music, television, literature and social activism in our national scene.
Release Date2023-10-09
Charactersd Self - Guest
Episode Count1
Perspectivas
Release Date2023-04-27
Charactersd Self
Episode Count3
La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català
Release Date2019-01-07
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
The exhibition 'The Complete Letters' features epistolary works defined by cinematographic creation. This is an experimental communication format used between pairs of film directors. Although each director is situated in a location geographically distant from that of their partner, they are united by their willingness to share ideas and reflections on all that motivates their work. Within this space of freedom, the directors featured in the exhibition examine their affinities and differences, within an environment of mutual respect and simultaneity of interests and with notable formal variants established in each of the correspondences.
Release Date2009-04-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Vote Count6
A Vocabulary for the Future
Release Date2020-12-04
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Episode Count1
Los Condenados
Two ex-guerrillas meet again 30 years later in an illegal excavation, where they will search for the body of a third companion who disappeared at the time. The tension and secrets hidden during that time will surface as you approach the unpredictable final solution, where not everything will be what it seemed.
Release Date2009-06-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp
A revealing exploration of Chaplin’s Romani heritage constructed from intimate interviews, film extracts, home movies and contributions from renowned contemporary Romani artists.
Release Date2025-04-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Equilibrio
Release Date2022-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.
Release Date2011-09-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Flores para Antonio
A daughter sets out to find out the truth about the man who was her father, a legendary musician, who died when she was 8 years old. He is Antonio Flores, and she the also famous actress Alba Flores. Alba stopped singing when she lost Antonio and is now determined to recover her voice and her background, asking family members and friends for the first time.
Release Date2025-11-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Offworld
A solar storm hits the Earth, causing a widespread blackout. In this new reality, five stories unfold, focusing on characters who struggle to adapt to a world without electricity, telecommunications or means of transport, where they are forced to face up to their most primal needs, instincts and fears.
Release Date2022-09-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count31
Microscopías
Various objects are observed using a high-resolution electron microscope: some paint pigments from a supposed 19th-century painting, a dollar bill, and a piece of old film celluloid in the process of decomposition. Microscopic observation will reveal the mysteries hidden on the surface of these materials: the infinite number of paintings that can be found in a tiny fragment of paint, the other possible invisible motion pictures that are hidden in each little piece of film.
Release Date2003-02-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
One Year, One Night
Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. That night leaves a deep scar on both their lives and each tries to cope.
Release Date2022-10-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count49
Garbo: The Spy
A compelling account of Juan Pujol, an extraordinary Spanish double agent during WWII who helped change the course of history.
Release Date2009-12-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count15
Cravan vs. Cravan
In 1918, the poet and boxer Arthur Cravan disappears in the Gulf of Mexico without a trace. Today, another boxer and artist, film director Frank Nicotra, begins an investigation that will take you behind the mysterious steps Cravan from Switzerland to Mexico, passing through Paris, London and Barcelona.
Release Date2002-10-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
The Next Skin
A teenager who went missing and was presumed dead returns home after eight years to find a family deeply affected by his disappearance. Gradually, doubts arise about whether he really is the missing boy or an impostor.
Release Date2016-10-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count69
Saturn Return
A rock band has to record their third LP, which will either propel them to stardom or fade into oblivion. Despite executives’ reservations, their idea is to have the recording take place in New York. But everything complicates, and the creative process turns into a hellish ordeal. A love triangle with all its consequences unfolds, band members desert, romantic relationships shatter, rehearsals become rampant with drugs and alcohol, and the unbearable pressure from the record label leads to endless fights and arguments only interrupted by fleeting moments of happiness. Meanwhile, unknowingly, they will be composing an album that will leave a mark on an entire generation.
Release Date2024-05-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count65
Foremost by Night
Exploring the issue of stolen children in Spain, the plot tracks Vera’s search for her biological son, given in adoption, thereby coming across Cora and her adoptive son Egoz.
Release Date2023-12-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count14
Ressonàncies magnètiques
Release Date2003-01-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Creator of the Jungle
This is the story of a man who created a jungle next to the highway, building with his bare hands beautiful and unbelievable works of engineering in the forest. This is also the story of how he ended up burning them to ashes to reconstruct them, time after time, over decades. He is known as “Garrell”, also as “Tarzan from Argelaguer”, and he is not driven by any apparent purpose, except one: going “on the go”.
Release Date2014-09-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count5
2012
Release Date2010-12-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
El rito
A glimpse into a slaughterhouse in Girona. The slaughter of the animal is deprived of its sacred nature, of all ritual; and human gestures become mechanical, almost automatic, when carried out day after day.
Release Date2010-12-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Ravalear
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Dying Beyond Their Means
Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.
Release Date2014-09-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count26
Dos cuentos que caben en la palma de la mano
Release Date2007-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Offf PDV ¡Retaguardia!
Release Date2012-02-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
El moviment perpetu
Documentary about the transmission of gestures and movements, from body to body, from generation to generation, embodied from some key moments in the history of dance in Catalonia, from the beginning of the 20th century to the first companies of the mid-19s. 80s. In this living history, the dancers of the past emerge not only through archival images and interviews, but reincarnated in the bodies of current dancers and choreographers, in a continuous journey between the present and the past through of gesture and word
Release Date2013-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Lunaby
Portrait poem, made for the Eiga Ongaku Project. Included in the collective film "The darkness collection" (special edition)
Release Date2015-06-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Double Steps
Fiction inspired by the novelistic biography of the painter and writer Francois Augiéras. The artist covered with paints a military bunker in the desert, and let it sink into the sand so no one could find it until the XXI century. The search continues to feed the myth bunker ... Who is Augiéras? ¿Legionnaire, painter, writer, gunman, holy, thief, devil or a mixture of all?
Release Date2011-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Between Two Waters
Isra and Cheito are two brothers who have taken very different paths in life. When Isra gets released from prison and Cheito comes home after a long tour with the Marines, they both return to the island of San Fernando. The reunion of the two brothers will bring with it the memory of the violent death their father suffered when they were just boys; the need to get back on track with their lives and finally come to terms with what happened will bring them together again.
Release Date2018-11-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count24
The Legend of Time
A documentary/fiction mix inspired by the flamenco singer Camarón.
Release Date2006-06-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Rêve de mousse
Release Date2018-05-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
El cuaderno de barro
Isaki Lacuesta documentary conceived in collaboration with painter Miquel Barceló. The artist, who lives long periods in Africa, has learned to paint from termites and scorpions, adapting to the conditions of a wild environment. Lacuesta enters the African workshop and film performance Barceló "Pasodoble" represented in the village of Gogolí (Mali). The arrival of the film crew revolutionize the village and arouse the curiosity of their people.
Release Date2011-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
All Night Long
Like so many other actors, Ava Gardner hated to watch her films. She said that the woman on the screen wasn't her. But all films tell two stories: the plot and the tale of the bodies filmed. This film narrates what happened between two images: a first shot of 'Pandora' and a first shot of 'Harem', the first and last movie filmed by the actress in Spain. Ava must certainly have thought that neither of these two women had anything in common with herself.
Release Date2010-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
NANA
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Under listening. The defendant
This documentary recalled the terrible murder of Michelangelo and Maria, an eight-year-old father and daughter, who were murdered after receiving a total of 15 stabs. This terrible event is still to be resolved after the only defendant, Francisco Javier Medina, was acquitted. «Under listening. The defendant ", has his unpublished testimony, as well as" exclusive interviews, scenes shot in the real places of the crime and photographic archive, press and police listening, "they explained in a statement.
Release Date2020-05-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Alpha, and again
Release Date2008-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Places That Do Not Exist (Goggle Earth 1.0)
The project Places that do not Exist (Goggle Earth 1.0) consists of a series of portraits and films of places which do not appear on Google Earth, which we travelled to in order to document their true appearance through vid- eos and photographs, which in the installation were then contrasted with the false vision which we see on Google Earth. These were military grounds and training camps, govern- ment buildings, natural parks where speculators have constructed illegal apartment blocks, nudist beaches... in Spain, Colombia, Ecuador, Russia and Australia. The catalogue of land- scapes which, for various reasons, Google Earth glosses over is endless and often very surprising. The project therefore confronts this unrealistic and yet supposedly objective view of Google Earth from a realistic (yet nevertheless subjective) point of view of the ground-level images we have of these places which, in spite of eve- rything, do exist.
Release Date2009-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Teoría de los cuerpos
Release Date2004-03-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The Marker Variations
"If Isaki Lacuesta wants to use some of my footage, that's ok by me, at the end of the day, I have spent my life copying others" (Chris Marker). An act of cinematic love for the director of La Jetée. "To shoot under the pseudonym Chris Marker, you need to fulfill a few requirements, some very strange. The Markers are a secret sect who meet up only once a year... And cameras are forbidden at the meeting".
Release Date2007-03-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Marte en la Tierra
Release Date2007-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
RCR, Dream and Nature
Isaki Lacuesta films two RCR houses
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Killing of the Pig
Conversations with an amateur film-maker and real state developer.
Release Date2012-03-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Nana
Filmmakers Isaki Lacuesta, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Gonzalo García Pelayo, Alba Sotorra, and photographers Isabel Muñoz, Castro Prieto, Díaz Burgos, and Ana Palacios explore their fears and how they affect their creative process, speaking directly to the camera, alone with the viewer.
Release Date2023-11-26