
Directing
Carlos Atanes
Born
1971-11-08 (54)
Place of birth
Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Known for
Directing
Credits
43 titles
Carlos Atanes (Barcelona, 1971) is a Spanish filmmaker, writer and playwright whose work occupies a singular place in European underground cinema. Since the late 1980s, he has built a distinctive artistic universe that combines science fiction, fantasy, surrealism and philosophical inquiry, becoming one of the most recognisable cult auteurs of contemporary Spanish cinema. Among his most acclaimed works are the dystopian science-fiction films "FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions" and "Proxima", as well as the surreal and deeply underground "Maximum Shame" and "Gallino, the Chicken System", which established him as one of the most uncompromising voices in contemporary European cult cinema. His fi…
Known for
7.0Exasperated and megalomaniac director Carlos Atanes, takes the charge of produce a pilot program for the television, but his interests walks on another way: he wants to leave the audiovisual world definitively, by the most drastic way: hang himself by the neck. Intrepid journalist Diana forces him to fight against his own ghosts. So, both of them live an exciting underground adventure in Barcelona cinema's drains, peopled by the most raved and bizarre characters: rude and wretched producers, revenger and freakish actresses, survival actors, hyper-violent technicians who goes in front of camera...
Morfing
1996
10.0The tavern where the action takes place is the waiting-room of Hell, the first door through which the inhabitants from the other side of the mirror will return.
Metaminds & Metabodies
1995
5.8Tony, the owner of a small fantastic film video shop, has found out that at times reality can defy science-fiction. The time has come to embark on a trip to a place nobody has ever been to before.
Próxima
2007
6.0A man named Alucinio drifts on the Antarctic desert amid a winter storm. He has been betrayed -in dreams- by the woman he loves. When he is about to freeze to death is rescued by a poulterer who will introduce him to the secrets of pornophilosophy. Meanwhile, in Boston, the crazy artist Gropius Cantor and his little sect are getting tear the structure of reality. The space begins to twist on itself with unpredictable consequences for the future of the characters and all mankind. A story full of lechery, sarcasm, extravagance, impossible geometries, discovery of existence's hidden sides and a pinch of Magick.
Gallino, the Chicken System
2012
NR5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and impossible love we have discovered several unconventional stories halfway between narrative and experimental.
Alter Ego Film Project
2024
Free adaptation based on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". The action is in Praga occupied by Germans, at home of a Jew family (maybe the Kafka's). Novel's room of Gregor Samsa is replaced by an enormous library.
The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka
1993
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
7.0Exasperated and megalomaniac director Carlos Atanes, takes the charge of produce a pilot program for the television, but his interests walks on another way: he wants to leave the audiovisual world definitively, by the most drastic way: hang himself by the neck. Intrepid journalist Diana forces him to fight against his own ghosts. So, both of them live an exciting underground adventure in Barcelona cinema's drains, peopled by the most raved and bizarre characters: rude and wretched producers, revenger and freakish actresses, survival actors, hyper-violent technicians who goes in front of camera...
Morfing
1996
7.0Augustine of Hippo dreams of time paradoxes and spiritual decadence of a civilization, which could as much be that of the 4th Century A.D. as our own.
The Seven Hills of Rome
1999
Behind the camera
7.0Exasperated and megalomaniac director Carlos Atanes, takes the charge of produce a pilot program for the television, but his interests walks on another way: he wants to leave the audiovisual world definitively, by the most drastic way: hang himself by the neck. Intrepid journalist Diana forces him to fight against his own ghosts. So, both of them live an exciting underground adventure in Barcelona cinema's drains, peopled by the most raved and bizarre characters: rude and wretched producers, revenger and freakish actresses, survival actors, hyper-violent technicians who goes in front of camera...
Morfing
1996
7.0Exasperated and megalomaniac director Carlos Atanes, takes the charge of produce a pilot program for the television, but his interests walks on another way: he wants to leave the audiovisual world definitively, by the most drastic way: hang himself by the neck. Intrepid journalist Diana forces him to fight against his own ghosts. So, both of them live an exciting underground adventure in Barcelona cinema's drains, peopled by the most raved and bizarre characters: rude and wretched producers, revenger and freakish actresses, survival actors, hyper-violent technicians who goes in front of camera...
Morfing
1996
10.0The tavern where the action takes place is the waiting-room of Hell, the first door through which the inhabitants from the other side of the mirror will return.
Metaminds & Metabodies
1995
10.0The tavern where the action takes place is the waiting-room of Hell, the first door through which the inhabitants from the other side of the mirror will return.
Metaminds & Metabodies
1995
5.8Tony, the owner of a small fantastic film video shop, has found out that at times reality can defy science-fiction. The time has come to embark on a trip to a place nobody has ever been to before.
Próxima
2007
5.8Tony, the owner of a small fantastic film video shop, has found out that at times reality can defy science-fiction. The time has come to embark on a trip to a place nobody has ever been to before.
Próxima
2007
6.0A man named Alucinio drifts on the Antarctic desert amid a winter storm. He has been betrayed -in dreams- by the woman he loves. When he is about to freeze to death is rescued by a poulterer who will introduce him to the secrets of pornophilosophy. Meanwhile, in Boston, the crazy artist Gropius Cantor and his little sect are getting tear the structure of reality. The space begins to twist on itself with unpredictable consequences for the future of the characters and all mankind. A story full of lechery, sarcasm, extravagance, impossible geometries, discovery of existence's hidden sides and a pinch of Magick.
Gallino, the Chicken System
2012
6.0A man named Alucinio drifts on the Antarctic desert amid a winter storm. He has been betrayed -in dreams- by the woman he loves. When he is about to freeze to death is rescued by a poulterer who will introduce him to the secrets of pornophilosophy. Meanwhile, in Boston, the crazy artist Gropius Cantor and his little sect are getting tear the structure of reality. The space begins to twist on itself with unpredictable consequences for the future of the characters and all mankind. A story full of lechery, sarcasm, extravagance, impossible geometries, discovery of existence's hidden sides and a pinch of Magick.
Gallino, the Chicken System
2012
NR5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and impossible love we have discovered several unconventional stories halfway between narrative and experimental.
Alter Ego Film Project
2024
NR5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and impossible love we have discovered several unconventional stories halfway between narrative and experimental.
Alter Ego Film Project
2024
NR5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and impossible love we have discovered several unconventional stories halfway between narrative and experimental.
Alter Ego Film Project
2024
Free adaptation based on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". The action is in Praga occupied by Germans, at home of a Jew family (maybe the Kafka's). Novel's room of Gregor Samsa is replaced by an enormous library.
The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka
1993
NRA bizarre "ménage à quatre" where everyone is half alive.
Romance bizarro
2018
NRA bizarre "ménage à quatre" where everyone is half alive.
Romance bizarro
2018
7.0Augustine of Hippo dreams of time paradoxes and spiritual decadence of a civilization, which could as much be that of the 4th Century A.D. as our own.
The Seven Hills of Rome
1999
7.0Augustine of Hippo dreams of time paradoxes and spiritual decadence of a civilization, which could as much be that of the 4th Century A.D. as our own.
The Seven Hills of Rome
1999
NRA ghostly journey guided by the voice of Erzsébet Báthory, the infamous Blood Countess of Transylvania. At the beginning of the 17th century, Countess Báthory was accused of torturing and murdering more than 600 maidens. Trialed and convicted, she was imprisoned in Čachtice, her own castle, where she remained for four years until her dead in 1614. Only in a diary could she express the words she would have spoken in her defense at a trial at which she never appeared.
Báthory
2026
NRA ghostly journey guided by the voice of Erzsébet Báthory, the infamous Blood Countess of Transylvania. At the beginning of the 17th century, Countess Báthory was accused of torturing and murdering more than 600 maidens. Trialed and convicted, she was imprisoned in Čachtice, her own castle, where she remained for four years until her dead in 1614. Only in a diary could she express the words she would have spoken in her defense at a trial at which she never appeared.
Báthory
2026
4.6In France, a near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.
Frequently Asked Questions
2004
4.6In France, a near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.
Frequently Asked Questions
2004
4.6In France, a near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.
Frequently Asked Questions
2004
5.0A strange love-story between a mad butcher and a young prostitute, they both inserted in a paradoxical Time structure, like Escher engravings.
The Marvellous World of the Cucu Bird
1991
5.0A strange love-story between a mad butcher and a young prostitute, they both inserted in a paradoxical Time structure, like Escher engravings.
The Marvellous World of the Cucu Bird
1991
NRReturning to your roots, to your family's house, can sometimes not be so good if the tranquility of your town is increasingly overtaken by surprises. A recorded theatre performance.
Necrofilia fina
2013
NRReturning to your roots, to your family's house, can sometimes not be so good if the tranquility of your town is increasingly overtaken by surprises. A recorded theatre performance.
Necrofilia fina
2013
NRReturning to your roots, to your family's house, can sometimes not be so good if the tranquility of your town is increasingly overtaken by surprises. A recorded theatre performance.
Necrofilia fina
2013
8.0In Ancient Times, the classic hero returned home and was rewarded with Glory. Nowadays, a trap awaits the returning hero: he is convinced failure is unavoidable.
Welcome to Spain
1999
8.0In Ancient Times, the classic hero returned home and was rewarded with Glory. Nowadays, a trap awaits the returning hero: he is convinced failure is unavoidable.
Welcome to Spain
1999
NRAn unexpected metamorphosis will give back a business man to a more essental nature: The dynoisian " Thong-Man". Just we have to remember the ancient gods, if we need it, and they will ...
Borneo
1997
NRAn unexpected metamorphosis will give back a business man to a more essental nature: The dynoisian " Thong-Man". Just we have to remember the ancient gods, if we need it, and they will ...
Borneo
1997
4.8The end of the world is imminent. A man goes into a parallel dimension, a limbo between reality and fantasy where the normal rules of time and space have ceased to apply. His wife goes to rescue him. Both will be trapped in a strange and cruel world where a ruthless Queen organizes reality as a mad game of chess, a post-apocalyptic dystopia of domination and subjugation where characters can’t eat, speak or move about freely and are periodically viciously attacked.
Maximum Shame
2010
4.8The end of the world is imminent. A man goes into a parallel dimension, a limbo between reality and fantasy where the normal rules of time and space have ceased to apply. His wife goes to rescue him. Both will be trapped in a strange and cruel world where a ruthless Queen organizes reality as a mad game of chess, a post-apocalyptic dystopia of domination and subjugation where characters can’t eat, speak or move about freely and are periodically viciously attacked.
Maximum Shame
2010
4.8The end of the world is imminent. A man goes into a parallel dimension, a limbo between reality and fantasy where the normal rules of time and space have ceased to apply. His wife goes to rescue him. Both will be trapped in a strange and cruel world where a ruthless Queen organizes reality as a mad game of chess, a post-apocalyptic dystopia of domination and subjugation where characters can’t eat, speak or move about freely and are periodically viciously attacked.
Maximum Shame
2010
NRA medium-length movie written and directed by Carlos Atanes in 2003 about Thelema, the abbey founded by Aleister Crowley in Cefalu (Sicily).
PERDURABO (Where is Aleister Crowley?)
2003
NRA medium-length movie written and directed by Carlos Atanes in 2003 about Thelema, the abbey founded by Aleister Crowley in Cefalu (Sicily).
PERDURABO (Where is Aleister Crowley?)
2003
NRThe Spanish journalist Jose Manuel Serrano Cueto, author of the book "Horrormania", goes deep into an evil and dangerous underworld for an interview with a legendary "scream queen".
Scream Queen
2009
NRThe Spanish journalist Jose Manuel Serrano Cueto, author of the book "Horrormania", goes deep into an evil and dangerous underworld for an interview with a legendary "scream queen".
Scream Queen
2009
NRThe Spanish journalist Jose Manuel Serrano Cueto, author of the book "Horrormania", goes deep into an evil and dangerous underworld for an interview with a legendary "scream queen".
Scream Queen
2009
9.0Three wild, strange, odd, surreal, underground stories: "Metaminds & Metabodies", "Morfing" and "Welcome to Spain". Introduced by Arantxa Peña.
Codex Atanicus
2007
9.0Three wild, strange, odd, surreal, underground stories: "Metaminds & Metabodies", "Morfing" and "Welcome to Spain". Introduced by Arantxa Peña.
Codex Atanicus
2007

