The Barcelona School of Film was a 1960s group of Catalan filmmakers, concerned with the disruption of daily life by the unexpected, whose stylistic affinities lie with the pop art movement of the same years.

Overview

Their aim was to move away from the social realist films that had become associated with the New Spanish Cinema. They took cues from the

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. The most important representative of the Barcelona School of Film was

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with his film Fata Morgana (1965). From the so-called Escuela de Barcelona, originally more experimentalist and cosmopolitan, come

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, and Gonzalo Suárez, who made their master works in the 1980s.

References

Organisations based in Barcelona Cinema of Catalonia {{film-org-stub