Guillermo Gómez Álvarez
1973 (53 года)He is a fiction and documentary filmmaker, a music video director, as well as a musician and photographer. His first full-length documentary was La escena [The Scene] (2005), on Puerto Rico's punk subculture, which was part of Gómez Álvarez Master's thesis project. La rosa de María [Mary’s Rose] (2007) was also part of a thesis project at Universtiat Autónoma de Barcelona and aired on Televisió de Catalunya (TVC) in 2007.
Aquel rebaño azul [The Blue Flock] won the Accolade Film Award in 2009. This film was commissioned by the Puerto Rico Civil Rights Commission and it explores the history of police brutality in Puerto Rico.
Una Identidad en Absurdo Vol. 1 is his latest work, released in April 2011. Leaning towards an experimental concept, this documentary explores deconstructing Puerto Rican identity through music.
Aquel rebaño azul
Guillermo Gómez Álvarez
A historical account of the complex plot surrounding police brutality in Puerto Rico, by means of vivid videos intertwined with eyewitness accounts. The documentary is a reflection of the near mute reality that affects societies everywhere, a situation in which protectors victimize those they have sworn to protect.
Aquel rebaño azul
Una identidad en absurdo Vol. 1
Guillermo Gómez Álvarez
Alfredo Carrasquillo, Carlos Pabón
Guillermo Gómez Álvarez explores the identity politics of Puerto Rico via archival footage from various sources that clash with nine original songs from local independent musicians and a thematic analysis from a psychoanalyst and a historian. From the juxtaposition the absurd becomes coherent and the coherent becomes absurd as Puerto Rican identity is defined and rejected almost simultaneously.
Una identidad en absurdo Vol. 1
La escena
Guillermo Gómez Álvarez
Joel Valentín, Raúl Juliá
What is "la escena" (the scene) and what is its importance, if any? Guillermo Gómez Álvarez tries to answer these questions with candid interviews from musicians and fans of the vibrant and, many times controversial, punk music scene in Puerto Rico. The decadence, rage, drugs, alcohol, politics, and social aspects are showcased in this documentary that tells an important part of the history of the great dysfunctional family that is "el punk boricua".
The Scene
