José Manuel Mouriño

José Manuel Mouriño (Puebla, México, 1978) is an investigator, essayist and filmmaker. He received his Doctorate in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo, dedicating his thesis to studying the Russian director Mikhail Romm. He also devoted literary essays to directors such as Andrei Tarkovski, Michelangelo Antonioni and Pier Paolo Pasolini. He recently edited and wrote the prologue of the book Escritos de juventud de Andréi Tarkovski, published by Abado Editores. He was the commissary of several exhibitions on the aforementioned directors in Coruña, Madrid and Lisbon, and is the representative of the International Andrei Tarkovski Institute in the Iberian Peninsula and Hispanic America. He is the author of documentaries: 36 vistas de la Torre de Hércules (2009); Luís Seoane. Visualidad, recuerdo y síntesis (2010) and Los Días Blancos, apuntes sobre el rodaje de Nostalghia, de Andrei Tarkovski (2011), the former screened at LEFFEST in 2015. His latest film, Pessoa/Lisboa, to be screened at the current edition of the Festival, will be the basis of the future exhibition of the same name, which will be inaugurated in November at the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid.