Isabel Muñoz, the photographer with a National Award and two Wold Press Photo awards, says she has passed the confinement and a good part of the de-escalation that does not end up trapped and even distressed by the need to play. And there, in the verb and in the need, she leaves a good part of her ideology as an artist. Her photographs, daughters of ancient techniques, touch reality with the urgency of what is necessary. She says that during the quarantine she has discovered the television series, she has danced, she has been reunited with the creators who inspire her and she has read about the prehistoric man who emerged from the cave as the dark room from which photography is born.
THE MOVIE / ONCE UPON A TIME IN ... HOLLYWOOD
I don't remember exactly when or how or with whom I first saw Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino's latest film . And maybe that's a sign. The evocative capacity of the tape can do anything and get you to dive into it. I declare myself unconditional of the director. And so it was even more surprising to me. Yes, the film has all the elements that define its filmography and make it so identifiable, but, at the same time, it goes further. The importance that the passage of time has in it and the way how memory is collectively constructed through cinema makes it very special.
On the other hand, and always around the clock, it made me reflect on the very premise from which it starts. All of it, as is known, revolves around the murder of Sharon Tate , an event that changed not only the history of cinema or popular art but the history of the United States and the world, or, at least, in the way that we saw it. All hippie hopes for a new life were suddenly shattered. Well, thinking that a concrete fact can change everything is also fundamental. And how funny is the demystification of Bruce Lee. A great movie.
THE SERIES / THE LAST KINGDOM
The entire time of confinement has served to at least discover the television series. She lived alien (or almost) to them and, suddenly, what a great opportunity to travel through time. Indeed, the ones I like the most are the historical ones. First of all, The last kingdom . For me it has been like returning to the Robin Hood myth by the hand of an exciting reconstruction of medieval Britain. And since it is about the great kingdom of Wessex that resists being dominated by the Vikings, why not also mention the Vikings series . The two share the same tension to reconstruct in strange and realistic terms a strange time from which we have come. I can think of some more, the quarantine has been long. I haven't missed Black sails either , about the golden age of piracy. Or Versailles , which tells of the construction of the palace. Or another documenting the fall of Constantinople ...
THE BOOK / LIFE, THE GREAT STORY
If I think something identifies my work, it is the search through the photography of the human being. So perhaps, lately I read about everything that has to do with this matter from the most radical. Knowing the origin of man, seeing where we come from, is undoubtedly a good way to get an idea of where we are going. Life, the great story: a journey through the labyrinth of evolution , by the Spanish paleontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga, is the last of his books that keeps me busy. I like all his work, his way of clearly communicating elaborate and complex knowledge. One of the first texts that I read about him was The Neanderthal necklace and since then I have become fond of everything that has to do with prehistory. David Lewis-Williams' book The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art also comes to mind. It is a text that offers a reflection on the birth of what we call art. And indeed, the cave has a lot of darkroom and for a photographer it is, in addition to an obvious metaphor, a constant source of inspiration. Between the light and the darkness of the cave we learned to be what we are.
a bel dì, vedremo / giaomo puccini
The first thing I would have to say is that music is part of everything I do. And everything is too broad a concept to be caught by a single song or a single theme. Every moment of the day requires your music. I will start at the beginning. Everything that we have recently lived and still live requires that we remember to love, that we keep love in mind. And for this reason, Un bel dì, vedremo, the aria of Madama Butterfly , continues to be in my opinion the love song by definition, by beautiful, by exciting.
But it is also true that confinement has kept us detained and unable to move. And that requires a just rebellion through, of course, dancing. That we can't hug each other should force us to dance too. I confess that I love to dance. After all, when you dance you love. If I have to choose a song, Sway dancing as Rita Hayworth sang it . "Who will be the one who loves me?" , it said in Spanish. It is sensual, it is sexual, it is the body.
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