“Without conflict and heartbreak, songs cannot be made. I like domestic life, but if everything is fine there, then I can’t think of anything to write anymore”, the renowned Spanish musician and composer Joaquín Sabina stated with great emotion in his exclusive meeting yesterday with the press at the crowded San Sebastián Festival.
“Well, we lived through everything during these 14 years of the process, with some funny situations and some complicated ones. And, it is true, everything that is conflict, for a documentary is good ”, reaffirmed the theory of him, pleased and affable, the director of the interesting and illustrative documentary Feeling it a lotFernando León de Aranoa, who remained under Sabina’s shadow all this long time, capturing with the camera every moment of his personal and artistic inspiration, with infinite confidence.
“I’m more modest, actually, but the first thing my wife said when she saw the documentary was that Fernando had taken my soul,” Sabina continued smiling. “Of course, we were always with a camera in hand and, after these years, we have achieved very good material, which could have continued for a longer time, but we felt an impulse: it was time to close it now”, the filmmaker said. Hence its nostalgic title Feeling it a lot.…”is that with the issue of Covid, I have been locked up for almost three years, almost without writing anything. In fact, the first song we’ve done just now was the one from the movie. It is completely new. In that sense, Fernando offered us a wonderful way to get out of so much sadness”, stated Sabina.
Any remedy for the problem with the voice? asked a hoarse journalist in the room. “Well, if I were, I wouldn’t be here,” the singer-songwriter joked. “It’s a marketing strategy, because whoever buys a record of mine, and feels happy singing better than me, he buys many more,” he jokingly emphasized.
Musician and filmmaker, so empathetic, how is this conjunction? “It is very interesting to immerse yourself in a world that is not yours, and where everything arises spontaneously, without thinking about the fiction that has a beginning, a process and an end. That’s why, I try to make a documentary between every two films because I find it very interesting, very enriching. liberating. The same, if I had had a plan, Joaquín would not have paid me any attention, ”the filmmaker joked.
Regarding the tone that pervades the documentary, León de Aranoa stated: “When you do a job of this type, for so long and from so close, that comes by itself. The artist himself brings it, the things you share, everything happens naturally, without a prior plan. To do otherwise would be a mistake.” “In the end, the important thing is that the film represents your experience, capturing its reality, with depth and also lightness, with solemnity, even though it makes many jokes.”
“I believe that the artist of any art must take what he paints or what he writes very seriously, above all out of respect for the public. But he shouldn’t take himself seriously at all. That is the end of any artistic adventure”, assured Sabina. “We must forget that there is a camera. In fact, I ask for the death penalty for whoever invented mobile phones, ”she emphasized. “For this reason, I confess that I have passed from adolescence to old age, without touching maturity.”
Apparently, we have for a while, with this affable and pleasant friendly and artistic relationship that will continue presenting his documentary biopicwith a touch of mariachis, around the world, with whom we will always enjoy this magical symbiosis: between a meticulous, respectful and methodical filmmaker, portraying a contradictory musician, with a past confessed of sex, drugs and rock and roll, of which “I do not regret”, but in which he prefers not to fall back. Definitely, long live the seventh art!
Source: Eluniverso
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