Iván Zulueta

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

A band of young musicians will do the impossible to boycott a song they didn't like that's supposed to represent Spain in a famous musical contest.

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Filmed before his feature-length Arrebato, Zulueta’s Frank Stein is a personal reading of horror cult classic Frankenstein (1931), filmed directly from its television broadcast and reducing Whale’s original to only three packed and dizzying minutes, during which the film's sensitive monster evolves at an unusual rate.

Párpados (the literal translation, “Eyelids”, misses the homophonic “par pa’ dos,” or “a couple for two”) is a 1989 television episode with an intricate script involving a delirious array of doubles, mirrors and word-play revolving around the central theme of amorous obsession.

A portrait of the film director Iván Zulueta and his film Arrebato. It features contributions from friends and people who worked with him such as José Luis Borau, Pedro Almodóvar, Antonio Gasset and Julio Médem.

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

A band of young musicians will do the impossible to boycott a song they didn't like that's supposed to represent Spain in a famous musical contest.

A band of young musicians will do the impossible to boycott a song they didn't like that's supposed to represent Spain in a famous musical contest.

Filmed before his feature-length Arrebato, Zulueta’s Frank Stein is a personal reading of horror cult classic Frankenstein (1931), filmed directly from its television broadcast and reducing Whale’s original to only three packed and dizzying minutes, during which the film's sensitive monster evolves at an unusual rate.

Párpados (the literal translation, “Eyelids”, misses the homophonic “par pa’ dos,” or “a couple for two”) is a 1989 television episode with an intricate script involving a delirious array of doubles, mirrors and word-play revolving around the central theme of amorous obsession.

Recovered Zulueta short.

A pop-art video of The Beatles’ “Something” made especially for Spain’s TV shot Último Grito in 1968. Iván Zulueta’s first attempts to get his colourful ideas on film and a clear nod to what would become his first feature film, “Un, dos, tres… al escondite inglés.”

The 1975 Super-8 short Aquarium is Zulueta’s first available incursion into the psychodrama—in which the filmmaker dramatises a disturbed state of consciousness—in which appear lyrical passages of the kind that will be made by the fictional experimental filmmaker played by Will More in Zulueta’s 1980 feature Arrebato. (Senses of Cinema)

Recovered Zulueta short.

A short by Iván Zulueta.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Kinkón (1971), a silent adaptation of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1933 classic, King Kong. Zulueta re-filmed a television broadcast of the original, and through creative subtraction and manipulation of camera speed, condensed the original’s feature length to an intensified seven minutes. The cathode-ray flicker and flattening that results from the re-filming defamiliarises the original, but its classical continuity mode of address continues to operate on the viewer, and the increase in velocity makes mesmerisingly urgent the dramatic plot of the original. —Senses of Cinema

Will More arrives by boat to a "genuine Mediterranean island" and is welcome by "thousands of Chinese girls" who take him to their place and tell him a story about his "ego", which he must immediately look for. Thus he gets to a "wonderful palace", where he meets a hermaphrodite odalisque who materializes the image of his other self and offers him a new and even more fantastic story.

Will More arrives by boat to a "genuine Mediterranean island" and is welcome by "thousands of Chinese girls" who take him to their place and tell him a story about his "ego", which he must immediately look for. Thus he gets to a "wonderful palace", where he meets a hermaphrodite odalisque who materializes the image of his other self and offers him a new and even more fantastic story.

Will More arrives by boat to a "genuine Mediterranean island" and is welcome by "thousands of Chinese girls" who take him to their place and tell him a story about his "ego", which he must immediately look for. Thus he gets to a "wonderful palace", where he meets a hermaphrodite odalisque who materializes the image of his other self and offers him a new and even more fantastic story.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Elena, a shy and unmarried girl, belonging to the upper middle class and somewhat marginalized from the general environment, embarks on a trip to the family farmhouse one morning, and when she returns to the city that same day, at night, she is forced to take a strange woman in her car.

Elena, a shy and unmarried girl, belonging to the upper middle class and somewhat marginalized from the general environment, embarks on a trip to the family farmhouse one morning, and when she returns to the city that same day, at night, she is forced to take a strange woman in her car.

Recovered Zulueta short.

First demonstration for gay and lesbian rights held in Madrid on 25 June 1978. In the images you can see all the convening organizations and personalities such as Ivan Zulueta or Eusebio Poncela himself during his tour of Menéndez Pelayo Street from O'Donnell to Mariano Plaza de Cavia. It ends with images of the press the next day, echoing the news of the filmed demonstration.

Lost Zulueta short

Zulueta short

Recovered Zulueta short.

The abusive professional relationship between Luis, an intransigent painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him…

The abusive professional relationship between Luis, an intransigent painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him…

A pop-art video of The Beatles’ “Get Back” made especially for Spain’s TV shot Último Grito in 1969. Iván Zulueta’s first attempts to get his colourful ideas on film and a clear nod to what would become his first feature film, “Un, dos, tres… al escondite inglés.”

Recovered Zulueta short.

Lost Zulueta's short

A real visual massage for the viewer's eyes, with brief images of films, advertising spots, news and reports in dizzying succession, filmed directly from television. Recovered by the Basque Film Library in 1991, from the only existing copy.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Recovered Zulueta short.

A travel experience capturing images of the Tolosa carnivals, where local men traditionally take to the streets dressed as women and join the brass bands (charangas) parading through the streets and squares.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Recovered Zulueta short.