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Friday, December 12, 2014 - 20:30
Cast:
John Newton-John, Olivia Travolta
Editing:
Antoni Pinent
Sound:
Dirk Schaefer
Music:
Dirk Schaefer
Animation:
Antoni Pinent
Producer:
Antoni Pinent
Production:
Dr. Nessuno, Contradiction Frame
Romanian premiere
A self-described “handmade décollage”, G/R/E/A/S/E takes the famous rock'n'roll musical comedy Grease as source material. Antoni Pinent literally puts the main characters under his caméra-stylo's knife: working directly with prints, the filmmaker isolates and magnifies the pop(ular) imagery and dialogue of the cult film by splitting and splicing frames into a physical and formal cinematic remix that becomes a pure delight for the senses. Cultural signifiers deconstructed, the film’s campy, manufactured pop-cinema look is taken to the extreme, letting the viewer know that its cross-cultural resonance (and dominance) have just begun. (Andrei Tănăsescu, BIEFF)
Director:
Independent contemporary art curator, ANTONI PINENT is also a film programmer, experimental film producer and maker, and he runs the Cine Invisible section at the Xcèntric (Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona) since 2004. He directs and coordinates contemporary art courses and has cofounded the magazine-group Cabeza Borradora. His previous films, KINOSTRUM KUBELKA (2009), FILM QUARTET/POLYFRAME (2006-2008), 2∞1 A SPACE CUT (2005-2007), GIOCONDA (1999) have been exhibited in numerous cultural centers and film festivals in several countries including: France, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, and the United States.
Contact:
antonipinent[at]gmail[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival 2013
- BFI London Film Festival 2013
- BAFICI Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2014
- Vienna International Film Festival 2014
- Barcelona Independent Film Festival 2013
Curator's comment:
G/R/E/A/S/E is not just about a movie from the seventies, it also shows the cultural phenomenon that it turned out to be: we hear the characters utter their cliché love words in every language and we read the subtitles (it’s a Spanish production) with the words that hold the ideology of this and many other products of the film industry. Ultimately, what this film is talking about is the spectator who has watched many movies but has never watched Grease, and still can recognize it without hesitation. It’s about certain cultural products’ ability to be part of collective imagination, even beyond its audience. This film’s goal is not the transmission of a distinctive message; it’s the manipulation of something pre-existing, turning it into something with many probable meanings. It is the audience’s job to choose those meanings. (Sofia Castaño, INDIAS/INDIES)
G/R/E/A/S/E is not just about a movie from the seventies, it also shows the cultural phenomenon that it turned out to be: we hear the characters utter their cliché love words in every language and we read the subtitles (it’s a Spanish production) with the words that hold the ideology of this and many other products of the film industry. Ultimately, what this film is talking about is the spectator who has watched many movies but has never watched Grease, and still can recognize it without hesitation. It’s about certain cultural products’ ability to be part of collective imagination, even beyond its audience. This film’s goal is not the transmission of a distinctive message; it’s the manipulation of something pre-existing, turning it into something with many probable meanings. It is the audience’s job to choose those meanings. (Sofia Castaño, INDIAS/INDIES)