LONG JOURNEY TO RAGE (Largo Viaje hacia la Ira )
By LLORENC SOLER
Spain | 1969 |26 min. | Spanish with English subtitles
Shops and shop windows, crowded buses, trains, advertising, cars, buildings jumbled and counterpoint in the suburbs and their misery. Field workers from reaching the great city of Barcelona in the 60s in search of work. ’Journey’ is one of the best examples of the genre in Spanish cinema. U.S. Premiere
Biography: After engaging in various activities such as industrial expertise, taurine critic, poetry, painting and drawing, he wrote about film in Critica. In 1964 he became a professional, making advertising and industrial films, gathering a filmography of twenty-four titles in 16mm films and five 35 mm. He worked in collaboration with sociologists, urban planners, architects, psychiatrists, and others on a wide variety of subjects, especially social, cultural, and artistic. Titles as Sera tu Tierra (1966) 52 Sunday (1967), The Long Journey Towards Wrath (1969), or Survive in Mauthausen (1975) will become authoritative examples of the documentary film protest Spanish. Soler is notable for over 60 titles behind him, and a line of consistent and persistent work complemented by his work in television as a director, his work with video, and the shooting of his first two fiction films Said (1999) and Lola Sells Here (2001).
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