Javier Izquierdo
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Biography
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Place of Birth: Quito, Ecuador
Known For
Vida del Ahorcado
Adaptation of Pablo Palacio short story that through a teacher and a group of his students, presents an exercise of dispersion and annihilation converted into an aesthetic object.
Crimes of the future
Through conversations with an array of Norwegian writers, filmmakers, psychiatrists, artists and more, Izquierdo investigates the impact of both the film and novel Sult by Knut Hamsun on generations of Norwegian culture and artistic practice, while exploring how it could speak about what it means to be an artist today.
JunkieLove
Elena is a frustrated woman living a monotonous life. She meets Ramiro, a painter who was once famous and acclaimed, but now lives only on memories and attempts to reinvent himself. Elena is seduced by Ramiro's stale rhetoric and enters a dreamlike world where everything changes. Infected by Ramiro's bohemian lifestyle, she surrenders to a spiral of lovers driven by jealousy and possessiveness. Her certainties gradually begin to blur.