
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
4.0Inés 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
4.0Inés 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
4.0Inés 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
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Safari
1996
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
NRA fortune teller convinces the deceased in a cemetery in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico to cross the U.S. border.
Los muertitos
1994
The animation is based on a sound piece of Xabier Erkizia, created from an interview given by the musician Santiago Irigoyen.
Berbaoc
2008
6.0A 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
6.0A 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
6.0A 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
5.2Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
Sultana's Dream
2023
5.2Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
Sultana's Dream
2023
5.2Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
Sultana's Dream
2023
NRWhile 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
NRWhile 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
NRWhile 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
NRAnimated 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
NRAnimated 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
NRAnimated 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
NRIn 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
NRIn 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
4.0The 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
4.0The 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
4.0The 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

