Une sensation de vide

Just 10 minutes from the center of Madrid (but also from Rome, Paris, London ...), hundreds of hungry men meet in a fortuitous and secret way. Some are looking for quick and easy sex, others are trying to escape loneliness, most are looking for themselves ...

Eduardo, a snob publicist who lives cranky most of the day and David, a shy student of literature are neighbors in a building under construction. After 6 months of hardly a greeting a scaffold intercedes between them causing unexpected reactions in each.

Waiting, craving, listening, downing… Miguel wants to hear what Peter has to say. Two young lovers meet against a city soundscape. The Spanish on the wall reads ‘I don’t want you any more’, and ‘why are you a coward’.

Two men are at lunch to have fast sex in the car, out of the city.

Perfect Day is part of a trilogy entitled Cover me, in which Juanma Carrillo and Félix Fernández develop a creative work about loneliness, separitividad the individual and affective-emotional relationships. Every form of video delivery to us about a new version of songs already known as in this second work revisited the theme of «Perfect day» by Lou Reed from the hand of the musician and composer Rubeck. This work connects to a changing energy and the pursuit of an ideal that vanishes at the approach of bodies. Each frame is scanned friction between the sublime and the everyday in every sexual encounter, every bounce, every break.

To love Love, devour Love, being devoured by Love. Video creation about the typical loving perversion, what the subject is love; love and not the object.

Three shorts by Juanma Carrillo: Canibales, Fuckbuddies, Perfect Day

In a year in which Marlene Dietrich was breaking all stereotypes as an actress and as a woman by becoming a US citizen and Orson Welles was presenting the best allegation on the loss of power in his masterpiece Citizen Kane, Europe was drained in an all-out war led by big dictators in which treason, death and violence corrupted all layers of society. Nineteen Forty-one is a tribute to one of the hardest years in the history of the twentieth century.

Perhaps a good sex is the only way to overcome the financial crisis affecting Europe aggressively.

Nine sexy, shocking, and always intriguing films from Spain’s most exciting queer filmmaker. Take an explicit trip through a cruising ground in the body of a curious guy, peek in to the bedroom of a couple as they discover themselves and each other, take your place on the dance floor in a sexually charged club, or watch the aftermath of a casual hook up in the back of a car. These stories and more feature in this stirring collection- including Scaffolding, Fuckbuddies, Consequence/Consequences, Wall, Une Sensation de vide, 1941, Dishonored Bodies, Perfect Day and Cannibals, Juanma Carrillo’s shorts have been shown at galleries and festivals around the world, including London’s own Barbican.

Sexy, offbeat, erotic, strange, artistic, perverse, visionary, aesthetic.