Basilio Martín Patino

Basilio Martín Patino (29 October 1930, in Lumbrales, Salamanca Province – 13 August 2017, in Madrid)[1] was a Spanish film director, specializing in a creative approach to documentary works. Patino produced pieces on the Spanish Civil War (Canciones para después de una guerra), the famous dictator (Caudillo), or his executioners (Queridísimos verdugos). He also produced fiction (Nueve cartas a Berta, Octavia).[2] Patino often experimented with new technologies, including digital tools, 3D, and offline editing.[3]

Basilio Martín Patino
Born29 October 1930
Lumbrales, Salamanca Province, Spain
Died13 August 2017 (aged 86)
Madrid, Spain
OccupationFilm director
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Martín and the second or maternal family name is Patino.

In 1977, he was a member of the jury at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival.[4] In 2005, he received the Gold Medal from the Spanish Academy of Cinema.

Biography

Basilio Martín Patino was born on 29 October 1930 in Lumbrales, a small rural town of Salamanca Province, Castile and León in Spain. He is son of Catholic professors and the younger brother of the well-known priest José María Martín Patino. He studied Philosophy and Letters at University of Salamanca, where he founded the University cinema club.[5]In 1955 he organized the celebrated Conversaciones de Salamanca, the first critical analysis of Spanish cinema, and he later moved to Madrid and enrolled in film school after graduating from university. He graduated from film school Escuela Oficial de Cine en Madrid in 1961 and soon after was met with censorship for his first short film, Torerillos (1963).[6]

Film career

His debut with the feature film Nueve cartas a Berta (Nine Letters to Bertha, 1966), starring Emilio Gutiérrez Caba and Elsa Baeza, won the Silver Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.[7][8] The film is a key piece in the so-called "New Spanish Cinema", however , had to wait three years for its commercial release.[9][10][11]

In 1969 he shot "Del amor y otras soledades", mutilated by censorship, and in 1971 "Canciones para después de una guerra", a singular and moving critical radiography of the post-war period, which also suffered censorship for five years.[12]

In response, Martín Patino filmed "Querídisimos verdugos" (1973) and "Caudillo" (1977) in hiding. Caudillo is a documentary film that follows the military and political career of Francisco Franco and the most important moments of the Spanish Civil War. It uses footage from both sides of the war, music from the period and voice-over testimonies of various people.[13][14][15]


With the advent of democracy, the filmmaker founded his production company, La linterna mágica, from which he has alternated his fiction and documentary work with titles such as The Lost Paradise ("Los paraísos perdidos", 1985) screened at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival, "Madrid" (1987) and " Octavia" (2002).[16][17]

His production, although it has spread over time, has received tributes and has been the material for studies and cycles, such as the one dedicated to him by the Pompidou Center within a space dedicated to Spanish documentary, or the tribute paid in May 2005 by Documenta Madrid to someone considered one of the best Spanish documentary filmmakers.[18][19]

The Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences awarded the 2005 Gold Medal to the director, writer and researcher Basilio Martín Patino, whose work "represents the enduring values of the commitment to intelligent, complex cinema immersed in reality and evolution of a country"[20]

In 2012, he made his last film, the documentary film Libre te quiero (2012) about the camp of the 15-M movement in Madrid.[21]

An example of a free and rebellious filmmaker, Martín Patino leaves for history some of the most important titles of Spanish cinematography. Behind his elegance, calmness and shyness was hidden a fierce and determined attitude to make the movies he wanted, always on the margins, away from the industry, without caring about commercial successes. He died in Madrid at the age of 86 after a long degenerative disease.[22][23][24]

Filmography
  • Love and Other Solitudes (1969)
  • Paseo por los letreros de Madrid (1968) with J. L. García Sánchez
  • Canciones para después de una guerra (1971)[26]
  • Queridísimos verdugos (1973)
  • Caudillo (1974)
  • Hombre y Ciudad (1980)
  • Retablo de la Guerra Civil Española (1980)
  • Inquisición y Libertad (1982) with J. L. García Sánchez
  • El Nacimiento de un Nuevo Mundo (1982) with J. L. García Sánchez
  • El Horizonte Ibérico (1983) with Elbia Álvarez
  • La Nueva Ilustración Española (1983) with J. L. García Sánchez
  • Los paraísos perdidos (1985)[27]
  • Madrid (1987)
  • Octavia (2002)
  • Homenaje a Madrid (2004)
  • Corredores de fondo (2005)
  • Fiesta (2005)
  • Capea (2005)
  • Libre te quiero (2012)[28]

References
  1. García, Rocío (13 August 2017). "Muere Basilio Martín Patino, el cineasta rebelde y libre". El País.
  2. García-Defez, Olga (2019). "De Inglaterra a Salamanca: espacio y memoria en Nueve cartas a Berta (Basilio Martín Patino, 1967)" (PDF). Salamanca. Revista de Estudios. 63: 200. ISSN 0212-7105.
  3. "Canciones para después de una guerra". Museo Reina Sofia. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  4. "Berlinale 1977: Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
  5. Tolentino, Javier. Basilio Martín Patino. Cátedra. p. 264. ISBN 978-84-376-4551-3.
  6. Perez Millan, Juan Antonio (2002). La Memoria De Los Sentimientos. Salamanca: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores. ISBN 9788487737442.
  7. González, Fernando (2000). "Exilio, identidad, historia, forma fílmica. La guerre est finie, Nueve cartas a Berta" (PDF). Film-Historia. 10 (3): 29–43.
  8. Keller, Patricia (2013). "Letters from The City: Writing Boundaries in Nueve cartas a Berta (1965)". Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 90 (8): 945–964. doi:10.3828/bhs.2013.57.
  9. "Basilio Martin Patino". Art Forum. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  10. "Spain (Un)Censored". MOMA. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  11. Faulkner, Sally (2006). "Identity and Nationality in Basilio Martín Patino's Nueve cartas a Berta (1965)". Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 83 (3): 409–423. doi:10.1080/147538206000346261. ISSN 1475-3820. S2CID 192014733.
  12. Pérez Millán, Juan Antonio (January 2011). "Salamanca en el cine de Basilio Martín Patino. De Nueve cartas a Berta (1965) a Octavia (2002)". Guzmán Gombau fotografía el VII centenario de la Universidad de Salamanca (1953-1954): liberalización cultural y apertura internacional de la universidad franquista. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. pp. 87–88. ISBN 978-8478001422.
  13. Pérez, Jorge (2017). Confessional Cinema: Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain's Development Years, 1960–1975. University of Toronto Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-4875-0108-2.
  14. Pérez Millán, Juan Antonio (January 2011). "Salamanca en el cine de Basilio Martín Patino. De Nueve cartas a Berta (1965) a Octavia (2002)". Guzmán Gombau fotografía el VII centenario de la Universidad de Salamanca (1953-1954): liberalización cultural y apertura internacional de la universidad franquista. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. pp. 87–88. ISBN 978-8478001422.
  15. González, Fernando (2000). "Exilio, identidad, historia, forma fílmica. La guerre est finie, Nueve cartas a Berta" (PDF). Film-Historia. 10 (3): 29–43.
  16. Marti, Octavi (28 August 1985). "La Prensa italiana y 'Los paraísos perdidos'". El País.
  17. Pavlović 2008, p. 106.
  18. "Basilio Martin Patino". Enciclopedia Cat. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  19. Keller, Patricia (2013). "Letters from The City: Writing Boundaries in Nueve cartas a Berta (1965)". Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 90 (8): 945–964. doi:10.3828/bhs.2013.57.
  20. García, Rocío (5 May 2005). "Basilio Martín Patino, Medalla de Oro 2005". ABC. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  21. "Biografía Basilio Martín Patino". Circulo de Bellas Artes. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  22. García, Rocío (13 August 2017). "Muere Basilio Martín Patino, el cineasta rebelde y libre". El País. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  23. Bentley, Bernard P. E. (2008). A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Tamesis. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-85566-176-9.
  24. Pérez, Jorge (2017). Confessional Cinema: Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain's Development Years, 1960–1975. University of Toronto Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-4875-0108-2.
  25. "Nueve cartas a Berta" (PDF). Retrieved 26 February 2023 – via Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte.
  26. EL SILENCIO OSCURO in encadenados.org (in Spanish)
  27. Heredero 2018, p. 26.
  28. "Nominación Premios Goya". Premios Goya. Retrieved 2010-07-19.

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