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 6 - 12, 2022 on MUBI's Notebook. The selection was made by the programmers of MUBI and FILMADRID.
Everyday Portabella by Ramón Balcells
In Pere Portabella’s avant-garde films, the everyday has nothing to do with costumbrismo, but with an aesthetic and political conception of cinema linked to the emptying of the classical plot, the silences and the dead times. This video essay connects the singular universe of Portabella with those of Georges Perec, Luis Buñuel, and Jim Jarmusch.
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En la obra del vanguardista Pere Portabella, lo cotidiano nada tiene que ver con el costumbrismo, sino con una concepción estética y política del cine, vinculada al vaciamiento del relato clásico, los silencios y los tiempos muertos. Este video ensayo conecta el singular universo de Portabella con los de Georges Perec, Luis Buñuel y Jim Jarmusch.