From the close-ups, from the first times, from the beginnings of our cinema. In 1947 was created Institute of Cinematographic Research and Experiencesthe germ of the first film school. Juan Antonio studied there Bardem, Berlanga, Saura either Borau. Now, and thanks to director Luis E. Parés, we can see what their work was like as students, their beginnings with a camera in hand.
‘Walk through an ancient war’ was the first practice filmed by Juan Antonio Bardem and Luis García Berlanga. He was left unassembled, but just ten years after the war ended, they were already giving a voice to the defeated. Parés has turned to those negatives, fifty tapes recovered by the National Film Archiveto tell the origin of our cinema.
“As I saw the practices that the students had done at school, I realized that no one really had to add anything more to those images,” explains the director of ‘The first look’ to laSexta.
He documentary film It was presented at the Valladolid International Film Week (Seminci), and it was done as “a look from this my generation towards some filmmakers who were a little forgotten,” says Parés.
Maesso, Martin Patino, Josefina Molina, Erice either Pilar Miro…everyone found in school a space of freedom in the midst of the prevailing censorship, of a Spain in black and white. “The institute was a bubble, no one cared. The institute was not of interest to Franco’s authority or to the industry itself,” adds the director.
“These films were not known and you can’t love what you don’t know“, noted Parés himself at the presentation of the documentary in Valladolid. But it was there where some hidden gems of our cinema were kept for years. It was in that bubble where Berlanga ‘tinkered’ with the camera and tried to make documentaries, where Carlos Saura or Borau took the first steps on a path that is still valid today.
Because they were the first times, and that always leaves a mark.
Source: Lasexta
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