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Bigas Luna, born Josep Joan Bigas Luna on 19 March 1946 in Barcelona, was a Spanish film director, screenwriter, and designer. He worked from 1976 to 2013, lived in Barcelona, and spoke Spanish and Catalan. He had three children and wrote a work titled Retratos ibéricos.
He died of leukemia from natural causes on 6 April 2013 in La Riera de Gaià.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1946
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Retratos ibéricos
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Film & TV
Directing · Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Bigas Luna was a Spanish film director. He began his professional career in the design world, creating the 'Estudio Gris' with Carlos Riart in 1969. In his earlier exhibitions, at the beginning of the sixties, he showed a great interest in conceptual art and the emerging visual technologies. Esteemed as an atypical director in the Spanish cinema, in 1986 he retired to Tarragona in order to devote…
Known for
- Le Passeur immobile — Self2021
- La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català — Self (archive footage)2019
- Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze — Self2008
- Sexo en el plató — Himself2007
- Filmmakers in Action — Self2006
- Eurotrash1993
- Como un adiós — as Juan José Bigas Luna)1983
- Como un adiós — (as Juan José Bigas Luna)1983
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1991
- Active to
- 2005
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,162
- Total plays
- 16,538
Tags
Rigas den Andre is one of the main acts in the ever growing Skweee movement. He began as an MC and producer in the Stockholm music collective Moder Jords Massiva and has since then released over 15 albums under various aliases and constellations. Rigas Den Andre is Henrik von Eulers skweee alias. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Rigas+den+Andre">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 9,180x
- Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
· 2016 · cited 9,061x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,775x
- Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual records for 37 513 025 patients diagnosed with one of 18 cancers from 322 population-based registries in 71 countries
· 2018 · cited 4,328x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,668x
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Key facts
- Born
- José Juan Bigas Luna , ( 1946-03-19 ) 19 March 1946, Barcelona , Spain
- Died
- 6 April 2013 (2013-04-06) (aged 67), La Riera de Gaià , Catalonia , Spain
- Other name
- Juan José Bigas Luna
- Occupation
- Film director
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Barcelona
- Place of death
- La Riera de Gaià
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- Catalan
- Image
- Bigas Luna (1992).jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Residence
- Barcelona
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- Commons category
- Bigas Luna
- cause of death
- leukemia
- date of birth
- 1946-03-19
- date of death
- 2013-04-06
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- Josep Joan Bigas Luna
- short name
- Bigas Luna
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Bigas Luna
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- end of work period
- 2013-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
José Juan Bigas Luna (19 March 1946 – 5 April 2013) was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong passion. His work often explores and parodies clichés of Spanish identity, but he had an international career and made films in Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French and English.
Biography
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