David Lamelas

10.0 MovieFicticious interview with a fictitious dictator.

The Dictator

1978

2.0 MovieThe film Reading of an Extract from “Labyrinths” by J. L. Borges shows a young woman reading an essay by Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges titled Nueva refutacion...

Reading of an Extract from Labyrinths by J.L. Borges

1970

8.0 MovieAbout Dr. Morel who invents a machine to duplicate the woman he loved, Faustina, in virtual reality. A tale dealing with the impossibility of ever knowing for certain...

The Invention of Dr. Morel

2000

MovieThis fictional documentary film about a Native American reservation critiques the practice of film production itself.

The Desert People

1974

MovieA simple gesture, introduced in the very title of the work, is repeated with slight variations – the glass is half filled, the content overflows, the glass breaks,...

To Pour Milk into a Glass

1972

MovieThe first part of Reading Film from “Knots” by R. D. Laing shows various pages of a text written by Scottish psychoanalyst Ronald D. Laing where he converts real...

Reading Film From Knots by R.D. Laing

MovieA drama unfolds in London parkland, as Lamelas balances modernist autocritique with the mimetic discourse of cinema.

Cumulative Script

1971

MovieIn Time as Activity - Düsseldorf (1969), David Lamelas visually reveals how the same moment can be experienced in different ways. The video is built on four...

Time as Activity

1969

MovieDavid Lamelas was invited to mount a solo exhibition, a short film was shot with a stationary camera documenting everything that happened to enter its angle of view....

Gente di Milano

1971

MovieA conversation with French writer Marguerite Duras, filmed in the calm atmosphere of her country house.

"Interview” with Marguerite Duras

1970

MovieTwo female producers are commissioned to create a short documentary for an exhibition dedicated to Rubén Santantonín, an elusive figure of the Argentine avant-garde...

The Phantom

2026