Directing
Paola Vela
Known for
Directing
Credits
12 titles
Known for
NRA dreamer with a calm and minstrel attitude lays on the grass, recites a poem and makes an offer to a tree. Is he dreaming, or is he a part of a dream? A contemporary peasant dress in a nostalgic revolution’s uniform, goes with his work routine in the countryside, takes care of the cows and thinks about the meaning of death and dream. The real documents and fiction blends into the path of the characters in a rural area in Cuba, and becomes a metaphor of an island inside another island or a dream inside another dream.
Atravesando el campo
2021
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Travesía
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Torvus
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rutinas
2017
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Los cazadores
2021
The father wants to leave, but the mother feels safe there. In 1977, the bucolic landscape of a Peruvian village in Cusco contrasts with the tense social and political situation reflected in the violence of the wind.
1977
2011
Behind the camera
NRA dreamer with a calm and minstrel attitude lays on the grass, recites a poem and makes an offer to a tree. Is he dreaming, or is he a part of a dream? A contemporary peasant dress in a nostalgic revolution’s uniform, goes with his work routine in the countryside, takes care of the cows and thinks about the meaning of death and dream. The real documents and fiction blends into the path of the characters in a rural area in Cuba, and becomes a metaphor of an island inside another island or a dream inside another dream.
Atravesando el campo
2021
NRA dreamer with a calm and minstrel attitude lays on the grass, recites a poem and makes an offer to a tree. Is he dreaming, or is he a part of a dream? A contemporary peasant dress in a nostalgic revolution’s uniform, goes with his work routine in the countryside, takes care of the cows and thinks about the meaning of death and dream. The real documents and fiction blends into the path of the characters in a rural area in Cuba, and becomes a metaphor of an island inside another island or a dream inside another dream.
Atravesando el campo
2021
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Travesía
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Torvus
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rutinas
2017
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Los cazadores
2021
The father wants to leave, but the mother feels safe there. In 1977, the bucolic landscape of a Peruvian village in Cusco contrasts with the tense social and political situation reflected in the violence of the wind.
1977
2011
NRIn his short film series ‘24 portraits’, Alain Cavalier records women who have dedicated their lives to manual work, collecting images and testimonies from a world of work in danger of extinction through close-ups of faces, hands, gestures and objects. The short takes up the idea of the registration of manual work and its representation, but within artistic production. Here we can see the actions, methods and ways of seeing of Ana, an artist who is in the initial moment of creating new works.
Potential fragments of work to unfold, fractal and cyclical
2019
From memory, a series of special objects are reconstructed within a closed space,
Un sueño chino
2007
An isolated character lives with his back to the city and is unable to understand its contrast, rudeness, enigma, and peculiarity.
El bombardeo de las luces de neón
2009
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La ciudad distante
2019
A low-quality video of surfers on the beach in the city of Lima.
La gran ola que nunca llegó
2012
