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.