Pere Portabella

Pere Portabella played a key role in Spanish cinema's transition out of dictatorship, produced landmark films including Luis Buñuel's Viridiana (1961), and introduced an experimental, poetic sensibility that continues to fascinate and inspire. After watching our portrait film in this room, further explore Portabella's work as a producer and filmmaker during the dictatorship of the 1960s and the transitions of the 1970s in Room 2. Discover the influence of Catalonian Romanesque art, dialogues with the eminent painter and sculptor Joan Miró, Portabella's treatment of space and movement, and his approach to sound and music in Room 3. Photograph by Gus Aronson (Barcelona, November 2021).

Pere Portabella Portrait Film

Viridiana

Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)

Barcelona, from Dictatorship to Democracy

Informe general (Pere Portabella, 1976)

Romanesque Catalonia

Apse Mural from Saint Climent de Taüll (Master of Saint Climent de Taül, 1123, now in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona)

Joan Miró's Savage Modernism

Aidez L'Espagne (Pere Portabella, 1969)

Pere Portabella's Look

Umbracle (Pere Portabella, 1972)

Music and Culture

The Silence Before Bach (Pere Portabella, 2007)