Aitor Gametxo

The Male Gaze: A Better Tomorrow

Go on an enriching journey from Mexico to Spain, onto Austria and then to China via Greece in these five moving short films where gay men overcome various obstacles in accepting who they are, and where they are going - things can only get better. The 5 short films are: If They Knew [Berak baleki] (2021); Xutaj (2022); Boom and Bloom [Neuzeit] (2022); Sexual Distancing (2022); And We Collide [潮汐平行时] (2021).

If They Knew

Every day, Martin fills the set he works on with excitement. However, in his personal life he feels a great emptiness.

If They Knew

Every day, Martin fills the set he works on with excitement. However, in his personal life he feels a great emptiness.

El otro mapa de Abauntz

After reading the news about the discovery of the oldest map in western Europe, engraved 13.000 years ago in a stone, the filmmaker goes into the nearest village in Navarre (Spain) to trace, in 25 frames per second, the paths of a new map. Another map for the future. This project was made within the frame of the X-Films prize, at the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival.

Here. Today. Again

Bitor and Mikel meet during the Bilbao festivities. The first look is going to be special for both of them, but they will remember it in a different way.

Here. Today. Again

Bitor and Mikel meet during the Bilbao festivities. The first look is going to be special for both of them, but they will remember it in a different way.

Ancora lucciole

In 1972, in one of his best-known articles, Pier Paolo Pasolini spoke of the disappearance of fireflies. A few months later he was murdered. Since then the fireflies have continued to disappear. But there are still people who remember them.

A trenc d’alba

Aitor works from orality and the images it generates during a trip to Menorca in which he interviews several characters of the island.

Cicha symfonia

Deaf people in Wroclaw (Poland) are unaware of the noises and melodies of the city they live in. However, the movement of their hands merges every day with urban sounds and rhythms. Trains, smoke, crevices, reflections and rain evoke passages from the most famous urban symphonies of the history of cinema in a city that could well be exchanged for another.

Variation on The Sunbeam

Variation in real time on the action of the classic work "The Sunbeam," from 1912 by David W. Griffith. The deconstruction of the original work makes possible a fragmentation and reorganization of the stage. The whole work becomes then a recreated choreography, where the characters make the narrative wind on depending on their movements. https://vimeo.com/22696362

Variation on The Sunbeam

Variation in real time on the action of the classic work "The Sunbeam," from 1912 by David W. Griffith. The deconstruction of the original work makes possible a fragmentation and reorganization of the stage. The whole work becomes then a recreated choreography, where the characters make the narrative wind on depending on their movements. https://vimeo.com/22696362