TALK ALBERT SERRA: AGAINST REALITY
Notoriously provocative, the Catalan director claims that documentary filmmaking is for unimaginative filmmakers. But he has just triumphed at the San Sebastian festival with Tardes de soledad (pure documentary) and all his cinema stems from a close confrontation with the physicality of spaces and bodies, and from a very singular relationship work between the camera and the filmed places and of the director with the cast. From this we will discuss how much of a part a sought-after dimension of estranging naturalness plays in his work, in which the preconception that wants documentary and fiction as opposing fields of attraction is dissolved.
Hosted by Alessandro Stellino, artistic director of Festival dei Popoli
Language: English
Free Admission
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 05 Nov 2024
- Time: 9:00
Location
- Palazzo Strozzi - Piazza degli Strozzi 50123 Firenze FI
Organizer
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Albert Serra
Albert Serra was born in 1975 in Banyoles, Spain. HE’s PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Universitat de Barcelona. In 2006, Serra wrote, directed and produced his debut feature Honour of the Knights, premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2006. Since then, all his films have premiered at Cannes except Story of My Death, that won the Golden Leopard in Locarno in 2013. His major filmography includes Birdsong (2009), Lord Worked Wonders in Me (2011), The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Prix Jean Vigo winner) and Liberté (2019, Special Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard in Cannes). He created the 101 hours film Three Little Pigs for Documenta in 2013. He has also shown Singularity (2015) at the Venice Viennale of Art. In 2022, he directed Pacifiction, premiered at the Official Selection in Competition at Cannes Film Festival. He received the Louis Delluc Prize and two César Prizes for this film. He has given lectures at numerous museums, universities and cultural centers, and many retrospectives of his work have been held around the world.
