Bigas Luna

Bigas Lunais a Spanishfilm director. He began his professional career in the design world, creating the'Estudio Gris'withCarlos Riartin 1969. In his earlier exhibitions, at the beginning of thesixties, he showed a great interest inconceptual artand the emerging visual technologies. Esteemed as an atypical director in theSpanish cinema, in 1986 he retired toTarragonain order to devote his time to painting. In 1990 theproducerAndrés Vicente Gómezpersuaded him to return to cinema and entrusted to him the direction of'Las edades de Lulú', a film which reached the general public. Without abandoning his dedication to painting and photography, reflected in numerous exhibitions, he began the well-known'Trilogía Ibérica'with'Jamón Jamón','Huevos de Oro'and'La teta y la luna'. Subsequently, with the short film for internet'Collar de Moscas'(2001), he revived his interest inavant-gardeexperimentation and audiovisual formats and at the same time he discovered a vocation for the investigation of digital cinema after the creation of the'Taller Bigas Luna'project withCatalina Ponsin 1999. The experience in the Taller introduced them to the world of new technologies and in 2002 they promotedPLATAFORM BL, dedicated to the creation and promotion of innovative projects and new talents. Despite being catalan, he is a lover of the aragonese culture. He re-designed an old folkloric cabaret café 'El Plata' in Zaragoza.