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.
L'Infinito by Miguel García Otero
In Franco Piavoli's films there is no concept of scale: the role of things is not determined by their size and the petals of a flower have the same value as the lushest grove. Through Il pianeta azzurro, l’infinito carries out a study of this way of understanding the world as the result of the relationship between the elements that inhabit it, of the part and the whole as inexorably indissoluble elements.
En el cine de Franco Piavoli no existe el concepto de escala: el papel de las cosas no está determinado por su tamaño y los pétalos de una flor atesoran el mismo valor que la arboleda más frondosa. A través de ‘Il pianeta azzurro’, ‘l’infinito’ realiza un estudio de esta forma de entender el mundo como fruto de la relación entre los elementos que lo habitan; de la parte y el todo como elementos inexorablemente indisolubles.