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Xcèntric Cinema : Conversations on the Creative Process and the Filmic Vision
Author(s) Gonzalo de Lucas, Albert Alcoz, Francisco Algarín Navarro, Celeste Araújo, Manuel Asín, Pip Chodorov, Esperanza Collado, Alfonso Crespo, Miguel Fernández Labayen, Andrés Hispano, Carolina López, Boris Monneau, Oriol Sánchez, John Sundholm, Helena Vilalta, Gloria Vilches
Format paperback
Year 2018
Language(s) English
Pages 312 pages
Description
Conversations on the Creative Process and Cinematic Vision, edited by Gonzalo de Lucas, takes us into the filmmaker's workshop, that personal space where film creators reflect on their working methods and aesthetic ideas. A constellation of images, experiences, notes, and inspiring ideas from great filmmakers that serve as a creative project notebook and help expand our imaginative field. Dialogues on ways of seeing, thinking, and discovering the possibilities of the camera, editing, light, and color; the different ways of filming portraits, human figures, and landscapes; ways of exploring the links between cinema, poetry, and painting; conversations on film itself and the conceptual or manual processes that take place before we manage to refine an idea or form.
Each of the 15 filmmakers featured in this book—all considered essential to the programming history of Xcèntric, the CCCB cinema, and to artistic and poetic cinema—takes as a starting point a series of images, from their own works or those of other artists, with the aim of discussing them and sharing the specific means by which they arrive at their cinematic vision; or rather what can only be seen through cinema.