CHANCE O.. SPELL IMAGES contemplative / * Discovering young filmmakers: ANDREW SANZ, from Romanticism to Pop Art
** Isabella Rosellini, multi-faceted ..
The other day I was lucky to watch this film at work: "Amor flat / Flat love of Andres Sanz, and I found it beautiful. Delicate, clean, sober, well shot and a story with a strong American style, especially references, to Pop Art style USA designation of origin and that special summer almost permanently .. idiosyncrasy, this flatness, simplicity and abundance color as a sign of identity of the most iconographic images, with that strange ingenuity, or thin line between adult and child, and that is precisely the key to tell the story of this man, obsessed since childhood with images flat .... Playing with the line, with representation, with the plane, in space, with the dimension. How 2D characters have struggled to be part of the 3D world to be free of the flesh, feeling things ... stories that had to do with living between two worlds, has always given good fruit, curious and convoluted stories, a lot of personality. Geppetto created Pinocchio, a wooden doll, which then became a child, like the others, In "Pleasantville" characters in B & W discovered the 'drive' of color ... and, in other cases, cartoon characters have cameos and lived, as if by magic, in the real world in 3D.
This is the story of a man convinced that the world is flat who falls for the wife of a table. Goes to the museum, observing, perceiving it, fantasize ...
The plot has a close relationship with a certain image to be (or not) between the lines homage to Hitchcock , it seems impossible that the 'format the scenes' not remember, immediately, that mysterious, elegant woman played by Kim Novack in "Vertigo (from the dead)" also is absorbed, rapt, as trapped by the inner world a painting in a museum. Picture- McGuffin will reveal clues and reveal the true identity of this woman. And is that personal fetishes, the things you feel special attachment and devotion are not easily uncovered, as a blond hair dyed black to hide his past, are the things that do not change that truly reveal. What are you looking for the protagonist, obsessed with this woman, almost like the man "La Jetée" by the image of his childhood-in this plot of spirals in which she, in turn, is magnetized, and overshadowed by that picture, by mistero, for its power to create a double itself a reincarnation of a character .. And it's true: See pictures addiction, particularly those with a special magnetism that seems to whisper, they talk, they had an intrinsic history, a living image behind, inside. Give her responsible and complicit in the secret 'blow up' . and that part is the obsession of man "Flat love" that, like any story that we grow (and the character with it) is something that moves, and a unique sense of humor and a history, that the choice of aesthetics, is loaded with charm. By the way, 'made the presentations', then you can see the short film
But not only that added value and helps to reinforce that sobriety, American style that at first saying, the unmistakable voice of the narrator: neither more nor less than Isabella Rosellini. To me she will always be 50% of that delicious tandem / luck with marriage Stuart Staples (Tindersticks), or that strange character, almost Machiavellian in Guy of surrealism Naddin, of "The Saddest Song in the world." But also, Isabella has been going, the smart way that is genetically-characterized today, not only because he chaired the jury of the Berlinale recently, opening his speech with these words: "I the daughter of Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman ...". And, although we all know, we must not forget. But also, she is the author of a wonderful experiment: "Greeen porn , I got a recommendation from my ring-Mersi! - And to me known to glory. A proposed small informative sketches, which she also wrote and co-direct-stars, characterized and behaving like one of those strange animals to make them known to children. So powerful, so visual, so plastic, with its touches Gondry, so theatrical, with the magic that seemed that the cinema had lost .. That not only consolidates his status as an actress, but his astonishing creativity. Here is one of the chapters, I recommend looking at all, "cool.
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"Flat love" was Audience Award and the Award for Best Short Film Festival in New York, 3D city par excellence, the scene of this curious story, as well as the winner in the Coney Island Film Festival Brooklyn , among numerous awards. mh fact that eager to take its director, Andres Sanz by maturity film. Probably another trained and love NY, and Leon Simiani.
Returning to the speech ... in reality this the 'contemplation' is not free, nor come out of nowhere. Has, in fact, at least that's my theory, a tradition, Romanticism, whose image illuminating, iconic, that best reflects his spirit is "Shipwreck" of Friedrich , A wreck inside (soul) and outside (of contemplation and shudder at the landscape). And it is to watch the sea, raging or in quiet, in its scale and immensity, produces nostalgia, awakens memories and stirs something inside, something sublime. Historically, poets, musicians and painters, called 'the romantic', were excluded and judged by "excess of black bile," meaning that nostalgia was a negative act ... Actually, the case of the paintings as representational areas in which to download all the attention, instead of topic / subject in vivo, have created a beautiful universe of images, of people stunned by them, new relationships subject / landscape , frames in which it seems that everything is stopped. Me comes to mind Chris Marker certainly and in some ways, Antonioni and Kim-Ki Duk .. But not only in cinema, especially European contemporary photography has also contributed to 'contemplation', which represent, reinterpret and reconstruct these models and renamed the references.
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