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Agustín Fuentes, bioanthropologist: ‘Saying that human beings are binary is a failure; it’s not biology, it’s philosophy’

Javier Salas — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Agustín Fuentes passionately recalls his summers spent in Spain witnessing the birth of La Movida, the cultural period that followed the end of the Franco dictatorship. “I remember – when I was young, in Madrid – gravitating toward Rock-Ola (a music venue), observing the changes in dress, behavior, dancing…”

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Sean Baker, the director of the dark side of the American dream: ‘I think I show an America that you would otherwise never see on the big screen’

Gregorio Belinchón Yagüe — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:48:07 GMT

Sean Baker is scared of the figure of Eloy de la Iglesia. That a cursed director of the Spanish Transition — the man who portrayed the wave of destruction that heroin caused in the sewers of the vaunted Movida Madrileña — scares the most recent winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or, an indie filmmaker with a New York soul, is a sign of the shadows Baker hides. “At New York University, we didn’t get that Spanish cinema. I discovered it about five years ago and I feel more aligned with it than with Fellini,” he says. “His personality reminds me of Pasolini, and I’ve been told that his drug addiction originated from his interaction with actors. That scares me because I was hooked. I had problems with drugs, I was addicted to heroin at the end of the 1990s, when I was in my twenties. Sometimes I get scared when I realize that I’m getting too close to those worlds again. In one film I had a person shooting up next to me. Ugh.” For a filmmaker who doesn’t enjoy interviews, the confession came out in torrents.

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Mods and rockers: From fighting in the 1960s to struggling to survive in the 21st century

Sergio C Fanjul — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:20:46 GMT

On May 18, 1964, in the seaside town of Brighton, UK, a bunch of kids got into a fistfight. There were a couple of thousand of them and they belonged to two camps: the mods and the rockers, two of the first subcultures of the second half of the 20th century, fueled by the post-war baby boom that increased the youth population. In reality, there was no express or ideological reason for the clash: bored, riding around on their motorcycles and scooters, in their leather jackets and parkas, mods and rockers roamed the coastal cities during the holidays. One day the spark went off, as it sometimes does at an early age. And all hell broke loose.

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