The Video Essay is a joint project of MUBI and FILMADRID International Film Festival. Film analysis and criticism found a completely new and innovative path with the arrival of the video essay, a relatively recent form that has already its own masters and is becoming increasingly popular. The limits of this discipline are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding innovative ways to study the history of cinema working with images. With this non-competitive section of the festival both MUBI and FILMADRID will offer the platform and visibility the video essay deserves. The seven selected works will be premiering online from June 7 - 13, 2021 on MUBI's Notebook. The selection was made by the programmers of MUBI and FILMADRID.
Striding Along the Yellow Brick Road by Cristina Ortega
The cinematographic process or resource known as technicolor, used in the film The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Victor Fleming, makes a difference between two opposing worlds—a tangible one and a surreal one— influencing other filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovski.
El proceso o recurso cinematográfico conocido como technicolor, utilizado en la película The Wonderful Wizard of Oz de Victor Fleming nos marca el contraste entre dos mundos opuestos—el tangible y el surrealista—influyendo así en otros cineastas como Andrei Tarkovski.