LA CUADRILLA ANTES DE LA CUADRILLA: CORTOMETRAJES 1980-1990

Before mutating into La Cuadrilla, Luis Guridi and Santiago Aguilar - with Raúl Barbé in the direction and Flavio Labiano and Miguel Vidal in the production - were part of an enigmatic group that made thirty short films in super-8 and six in 35 mm. Between 1980 and 1990. Philosophy was always the hooliganism. The theoretical budgets were divided equally between pop and punk: popular genres regardless of whether the original format was television, literary, musical or advertising... A decade of forcefulness, brevity and war on pedantry. Crazy scientists, Mexicans straight out of an episode of Speedy González, trampoline jumpers turned into amphibious monsters, hooded men who levitate, pastry chefs who spend a convention throwing pies in each other's faces, and the evil genius, Fu-Manchú, transplanted into a psychedelic universe , are the background of the pointer Justino, the linesman Matías and the president Atilano. Contie