quinta-feira, 10 de maio de 2012

Discutindo cinema


Para Peter Greenaway o cinema está com seus dias contados. O artista multimídia acredita que é o momento de tirar a narrativa do filme, pois contar histórias é função dos livros. Deve haver uma “alfabetização visual” com enfoque na performance, na mistura de imagens e sons, múltiplas projeções, loopings. Ele teoriza sobre uma nova linguagem para a criação de uma cultura visual efetiva.
As releituras de pinturas de Rembrandt e Da Vinci são alguns dos trabalhos de Greenaway na tentativa de ampliar o uso desta linguagem experimental pela manipulação de imagens.

sexta-feira, 4 de maio de 2012


"In troubled periods the artist hesitates. He is tempted to abandon his art and to make his art subservient to an idea. Through film he becomes a propagandist. When this thought occurs to me, I think of Matisse. He lived through three wars untouched. He was too young for 1870, too old for the war of 1914, a patriarch in 1940. He died in 1954 between the wars in Indochina and Algeria having completed his life’s work, his fish, women, flowers, landscapes framed by windows. The wars were trivial events in his life. The thousands of canvases were the serious events. Art for art’s sake? No. L’art pour la beauté, l’art pour les outres, l’art pour faire du bien." – François Truffaut