Seminar Dock Of The Bay

Jordi Costa

He has been writing about film, comics and other areas of popular culture since 1981. He is author of the books “Hay algo ahí afuera” [Something’s Out There] (1997), “Mondo Bulldog” [Bulldog World] (1999), “Vida Mostrenca” [Ownerless Life] (2002), “Carles Mira: Plateas en llamas” [Carles Mira: Stalls in Flames] (2001), “Todd Solondz: En los suburbios de la felicidad” [Todd Solondz: In the Suburbs of Happiness] (2005), “El sexo que habla” [The Talking Sex] (2006), “Monstruos modernos” [Modern Monsters] (2008) and “100 películas clave del cine de animación” [100 Key Films of Animated Cinema] (2010), as well as other group or cooperative works, highlights among which include “Profondo Argento” (1999), “Franquismo Pop” [Pop Francoism] (2001), “Tierra de nadie” [No Man’s Land] (2005), “El Quijote. Instrucciones de uso” [Don Quijote: Instructions for Use] (2005), “Mutantes” [Mutants] (2008), “Una risa nueva” [A New Laugh] (2010), “Manga Impact” (2010), “CT o la Cultura de la Transición” [CT or the Culture of the Transition] (2012) and “Black Pulp Box” (2012). With Darío Adanti he has published the comics “Mis problemas con Amenábar” [My Problems with Amenábar] (2009) and “2.000 años de cine” [2,000 Years of Film] (2010). He has been responsible for content on the specialist channel Cinemanía. He has curated the exhibitions “Cultura Basura: una espeleología del gusto” [Junk Culture: A Speleology of Taste], “J. G. Ballard, autopsia del nuevo milenio” [J. G. Ballard: Autopsy on the New Millenium] (both through CCCB centre for contemporary art in Barcelona), “Ficciones en serie” [Serial Fictions] and “Ficciones en serie. Segunda temporada” [Serial Fictions: Season Two] (SOS 4.8) and “Plagiarismo” [Plagiarism] (La Casa Encendida), the latter together with Álex Mendíbil. He has been an associate lecturer in Audiovisual Communication at the Pompeu Fabra University and currently lectures on the degree programme in film at the Camilo José Cela University. He gives courses in film criticism and analysis of television fiction at the Escuela de Escritores in Madrid. He writes as a film critic in El País newspaper and Fotogramas magazine. He directed the films “Piccolo Grande Amore” and “La lava en los labios” [Lava on the Lips] according to the guidelines in the manifesto #littlesecretfilm.