STRANGE CINEMA by CARLOS ATANES

Atanic cinema is the cinema that Carlos Atanes does. It is not an adjective, but a definition, because atanic is the term most adapted to define something that, for lack of a better name, constitutes a genre itself.

For quite few years the movies directed by Carlos Atanes share some common features: they are written by him, are produced through independent ways, almost always on digital video and with some backslider actors: Manel Solàs, Arantxa Peña, Antonio Vladimir, Neus Bernaus... And they also share common thematic and visual elements: unusual locations of an odd beauty, worrying situations, perplex characters, gorgeous women, suggestive sound and music scores, amazing dialogs, fetishism, oppressive contexts of arbitrary procedure, religious, esoteric, pornographic, mythological and even bullfighting influences, deserts, mirrors, glasses of milk...

But the most common thing to them is that always they defy genre classification. Fantastic, surrealistic or underground cinema are labels that only manage to describe it partially. Sometimes science fiction, but never completely. Sometimes horror but without respecting any genre's rule. Too narrative to be experimental. Occasionally too experimental for the conventional narrative. With surrealistic dyes but with too many readings to be qualified simply of surrealistic. According to some people, avant-garde films. But tremendously classic formally. Definitively: they form a coherent universe that does not adjust to any parameter, not to being its own singularity.

If you like fantasy, weirdness and oddity, if you are part of that public who has a good time with the risky and different things and with the cinema that recreates alternative and personal universes, sure you will enjoy this movies. In this web site you will find basic information about the author and his works, feature movies, shortfilms, books, some films online and links to purchase and rent online other movies in several formats (DVD and download). Visit us often, Atanes never rest and the innovations happen often.

Welcome to Carlos Atanes Official Web SIte.