Cáceres (EFE).- “I don’t feel like embracing this world; I want this world to adapt to me. Why am I going to adapt to a fucking mobile phone. If I can, I’ll break it ”, said the filmmaker Fernando Trueba (Madrid, 1955) in Cáceres, where tonight he collects the San Pancracio de Honor award at the XXX Spanish Film Festival.
In a meeting with the public and the press, Trueba reflected on the digitization of audiovisual content and the abandonment of movie theaters due to the rise of platforms, and stressed that “the answer lies in education.”
In this meeting, in which the rest of the San Pancracio awardees have also gathered at the Helga de Alvear Museum in Cáceres, he has urged not to resign: “If we monitor and invest in education we will have another society.”
“I would make slowness a mandatory subject: listening to someone, reading and thinking, looking at a painting and reflecting. That should be part of education. Now everything is bullshit, with cut and paste jobs with the ipad ”, he added.
David Trueba: There is interest in the world being accelerated
His brother, also a filmmaker David Trueba, has also reflected on this aspect.
“There are strong interests in the world being accelerated; with the exception of Extremadura”, David Trueba has ironized in reference to the Extremaduran train and the lack of connections in the region.
“The acceleration in the news is not innocent, 95% of what happens is hidden to only influence what is of interest,” he specified.
This, according to Trueba, “leads young people to a very confused and frustrating emotional state at ages when this did not happen before; with suicide rates continuing to rise. Now we have more life expectancy and even so, we did not arrive. It doesn’t give us time; something happens”.
Fernando Trueba on the new mobile platforms: “Cinema cannot be an activity that is not shared”
During the meeting, Fernando Trueba criticized the statements made by the young Extremaduran actress Clara Alvarado, Reyes Abades Award winner, who pointed out that “we will have no choice but to embrace new technologies and platforms”.
“Well, I don’t feel like it,” Trueba snapped at him, assuring that “cinema cannot be an onanistic activity that is not shared.”
Precisely, the experience in a movie theater is another of the issues that have arisen in this meeting, moderated by the communicator José María Clemente.
While the actress Mónica López (San Pancracio Televisión for the series “Rapa”) has affirmed that she does not have “platforms”, the actress Vicky Luengo has appealed to the “shared experience of watching a film in a room, because at home she stops be experience”.
Luengo will pick up tonight at the Gran Teatro de Cáceres his San Pancracio for Best Actress for “Suro”, Miquel Gurrea’s first film.
Good harvest of Spanish cinema
On the other hand, Luengo and also the director Félix Viscarret (San Pancracio directing for his latest film “Don’t look into the eyes”) have emphasized the good harvest of Spanish cinema, mentioning titles such as “Cinco Lobitos”, “Alcarràs ” and “The maternal one”.
“This year I have stopped listening to that refrain about our cinema that ‘it doesn’t seem Spanish'”, Luengo has qualified, something that has been corroborated by the Argentine actor Leonardo Sbaraglia, who has developed his prolific career between his native country and Spain with more than one hundred titles, and who will collect the San Pancracio for Best Actor for “Love Me.”
Sbaraglia has maintained that “the quality of cinema and audiovisuals in Spain has grown a lot” and has referred to the series “Antidisturbios” by Sorogoyen, which seemed to him, he said, “a bestiality”.
Lastly, Luis Callejo, Best Actor in a Series for “Apagón”, and the recent winner of the Goya for New Director and San Pancracio in this same category, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (“Cinco lobitos”), have expressed their reluctance to speak of a “feminine look” to promote the creation of more audiovisual content by women.
“The feminine look is well-intentioned to support the voices of women in management, but that term feels a bit outdated because it makes us all equal and places us in a niche,” concluded Alauda Ruiz de Azúa.