Retrospectives
"Saura, gets down to border lines betwen arts"
Carlos Saura is perhaps
the most regarded Spanish director after Pedro Almodovar. He has directed since
1956 more than 40 films. From the 90’s he has developed his passion for music
and dance, directing movies with a musical thematic, adopting a mix between documentary,
film music, theater/dance and drama, with an outstanding visual splendor.
Taking the opportunity of his most recent work in this area, about the
Portuguese song,
the final work of its own "urban song trilogy," the Festival ViMus
will present "Fados" and will show his previous "Flamenco",
"Tango" and "Iberia".
José F. Pinheiro, "The Pioneer of
Portuguese Music Video"
José F. Pinheiro co-directed
with Jorge P. Pires the documentary "Brava Dança” about “Heróis do Mar” (Portuguese
band), recently premiered in the theaters. However, between 1990 and the
present day he has directed about two hundred videoclips for Portuguese artists/groups,
videodocumentaries (Madredeus, Zeca Afonso) and around a hundred advertising
spots.
The Festival ViMus 2007 presents the first major retrospective of this portuguese
director, pioneer of the videoclips or the music video in the largest sense of
the term, by a representative set of his work.
"Eclectia: un panorama del videoclip nacional contempoáneo"
Eclectia is a
compilation of the most representative videoclips (Camela, Manta Ray, Los
Planetas, Astrud, Macaco...) directed in Spain in the recent years.
This work aims to fill a
shortage of publications to spread out the work of Spanish directors and to treat
the videoclip as art with the artistic-aesthetic importance it deserves. Luis
Cerveró (director of videoclips and advertising) comissioned the final
selection and exercised the function of "artistic commissioner" of
this project.