Alvaro del Amo

Álvaro del Amo y de Laiglesia (Madrid, 1942) is a Spanish screenwriter and playwright, film and theater director, music critic and novelist.

His work as a playwright is partly unpublished, but in his productions (Geography, 1985 and Motor, 1988) a translation of cinematographic language and aesthetics can be seen to the scene. His is a theater that blends reality and fiction, life and appearance, in a skeptical and ironic tone.

As a narrator, he begins with Mutis (1980, La Gaya Ciencia). Other works of his are Libreto (1985), Contagio (1991), El horror (finalist for the Herralde prize in 1993), Incandescence (collection of stories, 1998) and Los melomanos (2000). He was also the screenwriter of Amantes , by Vicente Aranda, a work that he staged in 2014 at the Valle-Inclán theater in Madrid.

Works

Essays

• 1969. Cinema in the Critique of the Method. Edicusa, Madrid.
• 1971. Cinema and Film Critique. Taurus, Madrid.
• 1975/2009 (enlarged) Spanish cinematography. Edicusa, Madrid/ Editorial Alliance

Literary

• 1980. Mutis. Editorial La Gaya Ciencia.
• 1985. Booklet. Editorial Anagrama.
• 1991. Contagio. Editorial Anagrama.
• 1992. Home. Editorial Anagrama.
• 1993. The horror. Editorial Anagrama.
• 1998. Incandescence (chuckles). Editorial Anagrama.
• 2000. Melomans. Editorial Debate.
• 2001. Cinefilia. Editorial Debate.
• 2006. House of beasts. Editorial Alliance.
• 2014. Illustrated crimes. Lesscuarto Editorial.
• 2016. Tabú. Lesscuarto Editorial.

Filmography

As director

• 1968. Preparations, film with which he was titled at the Official School of Cinematography, played by Fernando Rey and Mabel Karr. Duration: 40 minutes. Black and white.
• 1972. Zumo, interpreted by Julieta Serrano and Eusebio Poncela. Duration: 18 minutes. Black and white photography by Enrique Díaz de Diego. 1973. Landscape with tree, interpreted by the author himself and his sisters Fuencisla and Elena. Color photography by José Fernández Aguayo. Presented, with controversial reception, at the festivals of Valladolid and Benalmadena. Duration: 30 minutes.
• 1978. A storywith the voice off of Fernando Fernán Gónez and the interpretation of Pedro Díez del Corral, Eusebio Poncela, Isabel Mestres and Veronica Forqué. Photograph in black and white by Angel Luis Fernández. Duration: 23 minutes.
• 1979. Disturbing pretense, interpreted by Amparo Muñoz, Isabel Mestres, Pedro Díez del Corral and Joaquín Hinojosa. Black and white photography by Antonio Pueche. Duration: 10 minutes.
• 1980. Two., performed by Isabel Mestres and Joaquín Hinojosa, with black and white photography by Ángel Luis Fernández. Duration: 75 minutes. This film was selected to participate in the Berlin Film Festival Forum in the year 1980, then touring other festivals such as Cannes (within a selection of the Berlin Forum) and Montreal.
• 1981. The tigeron drawings of Fuencisla del Amo. Photograph in black and white by Angel Luis Fernández. Duration: 5 minutes.
• 2003. A beautiful sunset, performed by Marisa Paredes, Ana Torrent, Marta Larralde and Chema Muñoz. With the participation of soprano Elena de la Merced and pianist Rubén Fernández Aguirre. Color photography by Carlos Suárez. Produced by El Paso and Metrojavier. Duration: 82 minutes.
• 2004. The Nightmare, episode included in the collective film, produced by Andrés Santana, There is motive. From just three minutes it counts, through the bad dream of a bird, the ecological disaster of Doñana.
• 2006. The Dreyer cycle, produced by Metrojavier, began its shooting in February 2006. Interpreted by Elena Ballesteros, Esther Díaz, Isabel Ampudia, Fernando Andina and Pablo Rivero. Photography in color of Alfonso Sanz. Executive production of Oscar del Caz.

Published plays

• We're in 1909.; Caos Editorial, 2001.