Probably because there hasn’t been anything similar in Spain, I firmly recommend not to miss the Urban Screens, from the Size Matters programme. Although Spain, and specially Barcelona, the city where I come from, has very well-known cultural centres with cutting edges cinema programmes, nobody has had yet this great idea of projecting movies on buildings surfaces. We are used to watch there advertisements or, sometimes, TV excerpts, mostly broadcasting of news. But, what happens if instead the CNN we watched Isabella Rossellini being electrocuted? That’s the proposal of Urban Screens, a kind of "Blade runner" aesthetics exercise that tell us a lot about what cinema could or could not become by placing the cinematic image outside its conventional scenario. Canadian Guy Maddin, mexican Carlos Reygadas and dutch Nanouk Leopold are the three filmmakers chosen to transform three buildings of Rotterdam into an open air screen. They are also another reason of why I recommend the section. Maddin is my favourite director nowadays. His very unique style, a pastiche of vintage speedy images and laberynthic stories, has captivated me for a long time. Let me suggest you something. When watching his short, "Send me to the electric chair", at the Robeco building, just in front the Cinerama theatres, pay attention to the sound of the traffic light for the hearing impaired: it is perfectly synchronised with the frenetic rhythm of the movie. It’s funny to realise, then, how environment could provide as well an improvised soundtrack that it was not written at the script. Paula A. Ruiz (from the Trainee Project of Young Critics)
| 38th edition 21 January - 1 February 2009 |  |
hola guapa!!!
aquí mirant coses m'he trobat que estaves a rotterdam becada!! com moles...
li he passat teu mob a amaia per si encara no us heu trobat per allà i et ve de gust intercanviar infos
big kiss
gosh, very good english
Posted by: sílvia | 25 January 2009 at 06:03 PM