Miralles

Filmstill Miralles

Miralles

Miralles
Maria Mauti
International Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Spain,
Mexico
2024
90 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles: 
English
World premiere

More than twenty years have passed since the death of Catalan architect Enric Miralles. He left iconic traces with his buildings, not just in and around Barcelona – the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh is also based on his designs. Maria Mauti chooses a poetic approach to her impressive protagonist, in eleven variations. They take us from the Igualada cemetery to a community centre in Hostalets de Balenyà, a gym in Huesca or the Torre Marenostrum office skyscraper in Barcelona. The architect’s home with its open and at the same time labyrinthine character is given a major role, becoming the starting point and epicentre of a unique mind.
Maria Mauti carefully scans the still lively architectures, stages them. In Huesca, the smell of a sweating soccer team seems to mingle with the omnipresent cool raw concrete, while a group of Spanish cowboys and cowgirls shake their leather boots in the futuristic community centre. Despite the tragic note that comes from the work of the prematurely deceased, “Miralles” is not without a certain wit. This poised essay which combines personal and theoretical statements achieves a multi-layered quality that is in itself evocative of a Miralles design: airy and dense, abrupt and fluid, always idiosyncratic.


Carolin Weidner

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30.10.
#333
CineStar 5
Miralles
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30.10.2024
CineStar 5
#333
Miralles
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01.11.
#531
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Miralles
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01.11.2024
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#531
Miralles
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02.11.
#611
Cinestar 2
Miralles
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02.11.2024
Cinestar 2
#611
Miralles
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Director
Maria Mauti
Cinematographer
Ciro Frank Schiappa
Editor
Núria Esquerra
Producer
Antonio Chavarrías, Alba Bosch
Sound
Eva Valiño, Bernat Fortiana, Leo Dogan, Lucía Herrera

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Nominated for: Silver Dove, Prize of the Interreligious Jury, FIPRESCI Prize
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