Tomàs Pladevall

Camera

25-11-1946

He/Him

Tomàs Pladevall Fontanet (Sabadell, Barcelona, November 25, 1946) is a director of Catalan photography. He studied Industrial Technical Engineering and Design and is a Photography Director from the Official School of Cinematography of Madrid in 1972. He has been the director of photography, and often also a camera operator, in 56 feature films, and in addition to four hundred documentaries, advertising spots, shorts of fiction and series and programs for television. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Viaje a la luna

The exhibition, which coincides with the birth centenary of the poet Federico García Lorca, proposes a realistic recreation in images by Frederic Amat of the poet's screenplay Trip to the Moon. The aim, according to Amat, is to unravel the mysteries of the screenplay, an effort to distill its essence, silhouetting his poetic suggestion and let the script itself manifests in the different film proc...

Germanes de sang

Director of Photography

Marga, a well-known television presenter, organizes a dinner with old friends from boarding school to which he has not seen for 30 years. But the meeting hidden other motives. Marga projects an old super 8 film shot where they can guess the murderer of a friend by one of the dinner guests. After a night of surprises and serious accusations, the truth comes out.

The Pianist

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Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in...

forty years without sex

Director of Photography

Through various episodes we are shown sexual repression and desire at the same time, in the Spanish of yesteryear.

Chronicles of the Hidden Truth

An adaptation of the short story collection by Pere Calders.

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Director of Photography

How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)

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The Silence Before Bach

Director of Photography

This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Jo...

Leo

Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard. Gradually Salva be falling in love for the young, but the life of Leo holds a dark past.

Train of Shadows

Director of Photography

Experimental silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s.

Actresses

In order to prepare for her role as a certain well-known actress, a young woman has lengthy conversations with three different actresses who were good friends with the famous star. Emerging from these conversations are three equally different versions of the past and the events that shaped their lives and careers. This cinematic adaptation of a theatrical work is true to the original, but does not...

No al no: Visca el piano!

Director of Photography

Carles Santos plays several of his pieces on the piano. This film was made for the exhibit on Carles Santos Visca el piano! held at the Miro Foundation in the summer of 2006.

Night of the Howling Beast

Director of Photography

Waldemar, the renowned adventurer, joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he's captured by two cannibalistic demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their sex-slave. They transform him into a werewolf setting him loose to roam the mountain where he encounters a sadistic bandit.

Movies (Production)

El gènere femení

Magic Journey to Africa

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The Silence Before Bach

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Filmmakers in Action

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Director of Photography

No al no: Visca el piano!

Director of Photography

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Director of Photography

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Bellas durmientes

Germanes de sang

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Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Viaje a la luna

Train of Shadows

Director of Photography

Chronicles of the Hidden Truth

Tiempos mejores

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

El rey del mambo

Director of Photography

Daniya, the emir's garden

Director of Photography

The Blonde at the Bar

The Battle of Reefer

The Victor of Olot

Director of Photography

Catalan Cuckold

Director of Photography

forty years without sex

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Tattoo, The First Adventure Of Pepe Carvalho

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Raza, el espíritu de Franco

The Young Dracula

La oscura historia de la prima Montse

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Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino'

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Sexy... amor y fantasía

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Retrato de grupo (Crónica de una impotencia)

Robin Hood nunca muere

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Night of the Howling Beast

Director of Photography

Los hijos de Scaramouche

Crónica de Rondibilis

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