"Thirty-six characters from different stages of life - representations of different times - interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. It took a full seven months, sixteen hours per day, to make the piece. The miracle is that the negative got through the process with only minor damage, and I made less than one hundred mathematical mistakes out of several hundred thousand possibilities. In the final result, there are plenty of flaws; black lines are visible around humans, jitters caused by the instability of film material resulting from film perforation and elasticity of celluloid, changes of colour caused by the fluctuation in colour temperature of the projector bulb and, inevitably, dirt, grain and scratches.”
- Zbig Rybczynski –"Looking to the Future - Imagining the Truth,” in FranÐois Penz, Maureen Thomas, Cinema & Architecture. Mþliús, Mallet-Stevens, Multimedia, BFI, London, 1997.
"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.
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.
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"Thirty-six characters from different stages of life - representations of different times - interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. It took a full seven months, sixteen hours per day, to make the piece. The miracle is that the negative got through the process with only minor damage, and I made less than one hundred mathematical mistakes out of several hundred thousand possibilities. In the final result, there are plenty of flaws; black lines are visible around humans, jitters caused by the instability of film material resulting from film perforation and elasticity of celluloid, changes of colour caused by the fluctuation in colour temperature of the projector bulb and, inevitably, dirt, grain and scratches.”
Polaroid is transforming itself from an analog Instant Film Production Company to a global Consumer Electronics and Digital Imaging company.
