Bigas Luna

Bigas Luna (b. 1946, Barcelona), an internationally renowned director, studied design and, at the end of the 1960s, he and Carlos Riart set up Estudio Gris, a Barcelona studio which became established in avant-garde design. He turned exclusively to film after the death of dictator General Franco, but even his debut Tattoo (Tatuaje, 1976) had a problem with censorship. In the post-Franco era, he was the first to deal with the taboo theme of sex in his film Bilbao (1978). His four years in Los Angeles are reflected in his films from the 1980s: Reborn (1981) and Lola (1985). In 2001 the KV festival organised a Tribute to Bigas Luna, screening seven of his films from the 1990s, his most productive and successful decade: The Ages of Lulú (1990), the cult film featuring Javier Bardem Ham, Ham (1991), The Golden Balls (1993), The Tit and the Moon (1994), The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1996), Volavérunt (1999) and Sound of the Sea (2001).

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