Isabel Herguera

Directing

Isabel Herguera

Born 1961-01-01 · San Sebastián, Spain

Isabel Herguera (born in 1961; San Sebastian) is a Spanish animation filmmaker and producer. Alternates her directing work with teaching. Graduate from Bilbao's Faculty of Fine Arts and from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Germany), she took an MA in Animation at the California Institute of the Arts(CALARTS) in the USA.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Ámár poster
4.0

Inés travels to India to visit her friend Ámár, who has been living in a mental institution for years. Inés remembers the last days they spent together and her promise to return.

Ámár

2010

Ámár poster
4.0

Inés travels to India to visit her friend Ámár, who has been living in a mental institution for years. Inés remembers the last days they spent together and her promise to return.

Ámár

2010

Ámár poster
4.0

Inés travels to India to visit her friend Ámár, who has been living in a mental institution for years. Inés remembers the last days they spent together and her promise to return.

Ámár

2010

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Safari

1996

No artwork available
NR

A van approaches the lighthouse of Monte Igueldo on the bay off San Sebastián. A woman and her dog live in the tower. The moving boxes are packed with files and paper. Before the driver can load them, we are given access to the unusual interior of the building, where the history of seafaring and conquests rears its head: in hallucinated picture puzzles full of cruelty.

Black Box

2016

Los muertitos poster
NR

A fortune teller convinces the deceased in a cemetery in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico to cross the U.S. border.

Los muertitos

1994

No artwork available
NR

The animation is based on a sound piece of Xabier Erkizia, created from an interview given by the musician Santiago Irigoyen.

Berbaoc

2008

Blindman's Bluff poster
6.0

A blind man accidentally loses his guide-dog. Alone in the dark in a big city, he discovers that his strength lies in recognising his own vulnerability.

Blindman's Bluff

2005

Blindman's Bluff poster
6.0

A blind man accidentally loses his guide-dog. Alone in the dark in a big city, he discovers that his strength lies in recognising his own vulnerability.

Blindman's Bluff

2005

Blindman's Bluff poster
6.0

A blind man accidentally loses his guide-dog. Alone in the dark in a big city, he discovers that his strength lies in recognising his own vulnerability.

Blindman's Bluff

2005

Sultana's Dream poster
5.2

Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.

Sultana's Dream

2023

Sultana's Dream poster
5.2

Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.

Sultana's Dream

2023

Sultana's Dream poster
5.2

Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.

Sultana's Dream

2023

Winter Love poster
NR

While a couple walks along the river, hunters hide behind a hill and friends in the forest recall the Dancer of Clavesana, a metaphor of free love that slowly vanishes into the winter landscape

Winter Love

2015

Winter Love poster
NR

While a couple walks along the river, hunters hide behind a hill and friends in the forest recall the Dancer of Clavesana, a metaphor of free love that slowly vanishes into the winter landscape

Winter Love

2015

Winter Love poster
NR

While a couple walks along the river, hunters hide behind a hill and friends in the forest recall the Dancer of Clavesana, a metaphor of free love that slowly vanishes into the winter landscape

Winter Love

2015

Under the Pillow poster
NR

Animated documentary which uses the voices and drawings of a group of children who live in a clinic in India. The guitar, the dances, a trip out to sea, the cats Sweety and Kitty, and the sisters who look after them are just some of the treasures and dreams which the children keep hidden under the pillow.

Under the Pillow

2012

Under the Pillow poster
NR

Animated documentary which uses the voices and drawings of a group of children who live in a clinic in India. The guitar, the dances, a trip out to sea, the cats Sweety and Kitty, and the sisters who look after them are just some of the treasures and dreams which the children keep hidden under the pillow.

Under the Pillow

2012

Under the Pillow poster
NR

Animated documentary which uses the voices and drawings of a group of children who live in a clinic in India. The guitar, the dances, a trip out to sea, the cats Sweety and Kitty, and the sisters who look after them are just some of the treasures and dreams which the children keep hidden under the pillow.

Under the Pillow

2012

The Illustrated Woman poster
NR

In Ahmedabad, Isabel gives an animation workshop on Mehndi design to a group of temporary tattoo artists. She asks them about their dreams: Ramia would love to fly, Saadiya dreams of an all-woman parliament, Shubhashree longs to travel to Switzerland, and Samira voices her independence through rap.

The Illustrated Woman

2023

The Illustrated Woman poster
NR

In Ahmedabad, Isabel gives an animation workshop on Mehndi design to a group of temporary tattoo artists. She asks them about their dreams: Ramia would love to fly, Saadiya dreams of an all-woman parliament, Shubhashree longs to travel to Switzerland, and Samira voices her independence through rap.

The Illustrated Woman

2023

Sailor's Grave poster
4.0

The horrors of a shipwreck, the bells of aforgotten lighthouse and the coming and going of the tides surround a tale about the sea. 'Sailor’s Grave' is the result of a workshop based on a work method taking its inspiration from the exquisite corpse game, a mechanism of collective creation where the participants manipulate and transform one another's drawings to construct an intuitive, improvised narration.

Sailor's Grave

2014

Sailor's Grave poster
4.0

The horrors of a shipwreck, the bells of aforgotten lighthouse and the coming and going of the tides surround a tale about the sea. 'Sailor’s Grave' is the result of a workshop based on a work method taking its inspiration from the exquisite corpse game, a mechanism of collective creation where the participants manipulate and transform one another's drawings to construct an intuitive, improvised narration.

Sailor's Grave

2014

Sailor's Grave poster
4.0

The horrors of a shipwreck, the bells of aforgotten lighthouse and the coming and going of the tides surround a tale about the sea. 'Sailor’s Grave' is the result of a workshop based on a work method taking its inspiration from the exquisite corpse game, a mechanism of collective creation where the participants manipulate and transform one another's drawings to construct an intuitive, improvised narration.

Sailor's Grave

2014