Friday, October 23, 2009

"Fiasco" - Albert Serra (2008)


"Chaplin es un putrefacto sentimental" - Albert Serra

Cuatro interpretaciones muy diferentes del cine de Chaplin. ¿Por qué este homenaje?

En mi caso, por amistad con los programadores del ciclo. Nada más. No me interesa Chaplin y mi trabajo es una burla de su cine.

¿Qué queda del cine de Chaplin en las nuevas generaciones?

Curiosamente lo peor de su cine, su narrativa y sus moralejas populistas.

¿Cuál es el hilo conductor de las cuatro historias, además del homenaje al genial cineasta?


No he visto las otras. En mi caso, ya he dicho que yo sigo la vieja divisa surrealista de considerar a Chaplin un putrefacto sentimental. Como un viejo boxeador yo siempre estaré con Keaton, Harry Langdon y Animal Crackers y contra Chaplin. Además, hay algo de sospechoso en provenir del slapstick puro y adaptarse tan bien al cine sonoro.

Usted dirige Fiasco, estructurado en un único capítulo: Los grandes dictadores: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini y Mao Tse-tung. Cuatro personajes ataviados con pelucas y con una pancarta en la que se lee "Fiasco", parodian a los cuatro mandatarios. Simulan palizas, violaciones y masturbaciones, todo ello para dejar claro que ellos son los que ostentan el poder. Hábleme más de este trabajo.

Era una forma de mostrar mi protesta contra el sentimentalismo barato de este gran mistificador y talentoso cómico que sólo supo abrazar las causas más lamentables, entre ellas las de hacer mucho dinero y guardarlo muy bien. Es un filme pesimista que habla del fiasco de la especie humana contra el humanismo rídiculo de Chaplin. Y, al mismo tiempo, es un homenaje a los grandes dictadores y contra El gran dictador, de Chaplin.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Sharunas Bartas- "Children Lose Nothing"


Sharunas Bartas short for the "Visions of Europe" (2004) omnibus.
This made my day.

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

SL52.


SL52., originally uploaded by norb..

saddleback butte, ca.

101.


101., originally uploaded by norb..

"manhattan skyline"

Thursday, April 23, 2009

102.


102., originally uploaded by norb..

coney island blues.

Monday, February 02, 2009

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16., originally uploaded by norb..

"the lonesome crowded west."

Saturday, January 24, 2009

SL11


SL11, originally uploaded by norb..

red rock canyon park. mojave desert.
shooting landscapes series.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

51a


51a, originally uploaded by norb..

"waves, waves, waves"

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44a, originally uploaded by norb..

"oceans will rise."

Saturday, January 17, 2009

polariod 2.0 -> the impossible project.

Polaroid is transforming itself from an analog Instant Film Production Company to a global Consumer Electronics and Digital Imaging company.

Production of analog Instant Film stopped in June 2008, closing the factories in Mexico (Instant Packfilm production) and the Netherlands (Instant Integral production).

Impossible b.v. has been founded with the concrete aim to re-invent and re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras. Therefore Impossible b.v. has acquired the complete film production equipment in Enschede (NL) from Polaroid, has signed a 10-year lease agreement on the factory building; and has engaged the most experienced team of Integral Film experts worldwide.

The Impossible mission is NOT to re-build Polaroid Integral film but (with the help of strategic partners) to develop a new product with new characteristics, consisting of new optimised components, produced with a streamlined modern setup. An innovative and fresh analog material, sold under a new brand name that perfectly will match the global re-positioning of Integral Films.

LINK:
http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

Tuesday, January 13, 2009


, originally uploaded by norb..

they use to teach swimming around here.

Monday, January 12, 2009

10.


10., originally uploaded by norb..

another green world.

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9., originally uploaded by norb..

kind of lighter blue.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

042a


042a, originally uploaded by norb..

he writes a story.

4a


4a, originally uploaded by norb..

right then...
everything seemed to make sense.

10a


10a, originally uploaded by norb..

Saturday, January 10, 2009

10.


10., originally uploaded by norb..

january 5th, 2009
11am at lake tahoe.

re: light leaks...
strange things happen in the cold.

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9., originally uploaded by norb..

january 2nd, 2009
3pm at san francisco.