Julio Medem

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox person Julio Medem Lafont (born 21 October 1958) is a Basque film director, producer, editor, and screenwriter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Biography

Medem was born on 21 October 1958 in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8 camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention. After college graduation, with degrees in Medicine and General Surgery, he worked as a film critic and later as a screenwriter, assistant director and editor. After a few shorts, he directed his first full-length feature, Vacas (Cows) for which he won a Goya Award.

After this film he directed The Red Squirrel and Earth, both receiving good reviews at Cannes. His next film, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, has been compared to the works of Krzysztof KieślowskiTemplate:Citation needed. In 2002 was released his following film, Sex and Lucia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Medem explored the documentary format with his next production La pelota vasca ('The Basque Ball'), a film about the political problems of the Basque Country, which caused a furor amongst some victims of terrorism and far right politicians. Following this, his film Caótica Ana debuted in 2007.

Filmography

Feature films

Narrative films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Template:Tooltip
1991	Cows	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No
1993	The Red Squirrel	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No
1996	Earth	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No
1998	Lovers of the Arctic Circle	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No
2001	Sex and Lucia	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No
2007	Chaotic Ana	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Partial	Template:Yes
2010	Room in Rome	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Partial	Template:Yes
2015	Ma Ma	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2018	The Tree of Blood	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No
2025	8	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>{{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}

Documentary films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor
2003	The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2006	Uno por ciento, esquizofrenia	Template:No	Template:Partial	Template:Yes	Template:Yes

Short films

Super 8

• El ciego (The Blind, 1974)
• El jueves pasado (Last Thursday, 1977)
• Fideos (Noodles, 1979)
• Si yo fuera poeta... (If I Were a Poet, 1981)
• Teatro en Soria (Theatre in Soria, 1982)

35 mm

• Patas en la cabeza (Nutty As a Fruitcake, 1985)
• Las seis en punta (Six on the Dot, 1987)
• Martín (commissioned by TVE for their Siete huellas, siete [Seven Tracks, Seven] series of short films, 1988)
• El Diario Vasco (The Basque Daily, 1989)

DV

• Asi se hizo "Airbag" (making of Juanma Bajo Ulloa's film Airbag, 1997)
• Clecla (commissioned by notodofilmfest.com, 2001)
• La pelota vasca (segment of ¡Hay motivo! [There Is Reason!], 2003)
• En las ramas de Ana (In Ana's Branches, commissioned by es:Fotogramas and Nokia for their N_ature movies series of short films, 2007)
• Concha (Mussel, video installation commissioned by Acciona and shown at Expo 2008, 2008)

Music video

• "Océano de sol" for Antonio Vega (1994)

Commercials

• Runner for Audi's Attitudes campaign (agency: El Sindicato, 1999/2000)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Soplo/Tendedero (Waft/Clothesline) and Mediterraneo (Mediterranean) for Balay (agency: FCB Tapsa, 2002)
• Vecina (Neighbour) and Brazalete (Bracelet) for Heineken (agency: Dayax, 2003)

TV series

• Jai Alai ( 2023)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Books

• Aspasia Amante De Atenas (2013)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Further reading

• Stone, Rob: Julio Medem. Manchester 2007 (Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers)
• Evans, Jo: Julio Medem. London 2007 (Critical Guides to Spanish & Latin American Texts and Films; 71)
• Angulo, Jesús/Rebordinos, José Luis: Contra la certeza: El cine de Julio Medem. San Sebastián/Huesca 2005
• Ituarte Pérez, Leire: El imaginario posmoderno de la feminidad en la filmografía de Juanma Bajo Ulloa y Julio Medem. Bilbao 2007 (Tesis doctorales)
• Bochnig, Julia: ''Von der großen Sehnsucht zu fliehen": Die Filme von Julio Medem. Remscheid 2005 (Filmstudien; 37)
• Strigl, Sandra: Traumreisende: Eine narratologische Studie der Filme von Ingmar Bergman, André Téchiné und Julio Medem. Bielefeld 2007
• Rodriguez, Marie-Soledad (ed.): Le cinéma de Julio Medem. Paris 2008
• Falcioni, Davide: L'immagine eccessiva: Julio Medem e il suo universo magico. Bellocchi di Fano 2004 (Quaderni del Fano International Film Festival/Papermoon; 2)

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