Monday 30 March 2009

Películas de Muestra

The FICG 2009 it´s over.. and we will miss it.. but this time I coAñadir vídeould see some very wonderful films, and some other not that much.
Here are the names:

Shortfilms. A selection of mexican shortfilms. The one I like the most was De como los niños pueden volar, an watercolor animation with music from Alfredo Sanchez and Lila Downs.








The guitar. Opera prima from Robert Redford´s daughter, Amy Redford. A film about the power of music. Excellent.








Grizzi Sikniss
. A documentary about a strange disease that only occurs to the Miskito people in Nicaragua. It started good but it was just redundant and not really deep.

Splinterheads.
A film shoted in the marvelous Red One Camera.

Kautokeino opprøret. I have been fascinated by scandivian and northern cultures for a while, a long while.. and this is a very beautiful film full of some of the things I love from those cultures: the language (swedish, sami, norwegian), snow, reindeers, snowed dunes, snowstorms and vodka. It is a film about an historical moment in the Sami history, a story about represion and revolution, a story about the domination of the catholic church and the way it smashed and kills other ways of thinking and feeling the nature, a story that has been repeated too many times and in very cruel ways.


Thursday 19 March 2009

Purple Haze

I made this image for Baklight Postcards.
Photo of the model was taken by Victoria Alexandrova. http://www.fotolia.com/id/5941086
Crystal drops photo was taken by Paco Herrera.


Wednesday 11 March 2009

The Darjeeling Limited



I really wanted to see this film for a long time, and this weekend, we were with a couple of friends at home and decided to go to the movies to see Slumdog Millionaire.. but all the rooms were full packed and we decided to go to Video Diversión to rent a movie.. and we choose The Darjeeling Limited.. with Owen Wilson, a great Adrien Brody, with a very à-la-Brit-pop-singer look, and another actor a little less well known, Jason Schwartzman. Also Anjelica Houston and Bill Murray appear here.

With The Darjeeling Limited, I reaffirm my love for Wes Anderson movies. The aesthetic, the story, the actors, the colors.. the funeral scene.. the train.. everything is amazing.
And, as usual in Wes Anderson movies, the soundtrack it´s delightful.. The Kinks, Rolling Stones, Joe Dassin, hindu music, etc..
And I want to visit India!! I envy you Itzi and Anders ... you should take me with you!!..