Diego Rísquez

lees zojuist iets over deze experimentele filmmaker die veel films gemaakt lijkt te hebben zonder dialoog... vergelijkbaar met Franco Piavoli wellicht, altijd interessant!

Bolívar, sinfonía tropikal (1979) - IMDb

In this film, Venezuelan director Diego Risquéz has focused on the life of South America's famed libertador, Simón Bolívar. He explores the episodes in Bolívar's life and tragic death by using images alone (no dialogue), a technique that makes his subject matter quite abstruse. Only viewers already familiar with the legend of the man and the early history of Venezuela will recognize many of the symbols and the storyline. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Format:

Shot entirely in Super-8 and transfered to 35mm

Festivals & Awards:

Director's Fornight, Cannes Film Festival, 1981

Best Film Award, Montreal International Film Festival, 1981

Best Film Award, Cali International Film Festival, 1980

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Orinoko, nuevo mundo (1984) - IMDb

Like other works by Diego Risquez (see Amerika ), this film dispenses with dialogue, telling the story entirely through images, sounds, and music. The first half of the film shows idyllic life on the Orinoco River before the invasion of the Europeans. Then a shaman has visions of the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the Catholic mission of 1498.

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Amérika, terra incógnita (1988) - IMDb

This is an experimental film with almost no dialogue, except for a few words in Italian in the middle of the film. Conquistadors capture an Indian (Alberto Martín) and bring him back to Europe along with birds and other exotica. He is kept at court as a specimen to be displayed and looked at. A princess in the Italian begins a clandestine affair with him and has a child. Eventually, the Indian escapes the castle, but only goes to a small island where they can watch him with a telescope. Slow, symbolic, and dream-like, this fascinating experiment might have benefited from more rigorous cutting. But the contrast between indigenous harmony with nature and European estrangement from nature has never been expressed better. Amérika, terra incógnita may be regarded as part of a trilogy of films that begins with Bolívar: sinfonía tropical (1981) and Orinoko: nuevo mundo (1984, see below). His images are often based on well-known 19th century paintings by Arturo Michelena or Juan Lovera.

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Interessant + lekker obscuur + Latijns-Amerika. Wellicht iets voor het IFFR om op te pakken?

Het is eerder alsof Derek Jarman een Lord of the Rings film in Zuid-Amerika heeft gemaakt. Super sfeervol! Zoals de omschrijving in het Engels al aangaf wordt er niet echt een verhaal zonder woorden verteld, de film is meer vergelijkbaar met schilderkunst, waarin betekenis via tableaux wordt overgebracht (vleugje Paradjanov dan ook? daarvoor is het wellicht wat te kaal)... dus als je iets over Bolivar wilt leren zal je toch ook de wiki er bij moeten nemen, maar als puur filmische ervaring staat het sowieso als een huis.