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Eisenstein´s stay in Mexico, a cultural shock we just begin to understand: Peter Greenaway
January 20, 2016If something defined Sergei Eisenstein says filmmaker Peter Greenaway, was his ability to be absolutely modern, ahead of his contemporaries with the then crazy idea that a movie could be at the level of a literary or pictorial work.
"If Eisenstein was alive, I do not doubt he would be taking advantage of the technology and doing a futuristic project in the style of Avatar, because first of all he was an eternal experimenter and a maker of artistic revolutions”, the filmmaker said at the Palace of Fine Arts, where he presented to the cultural community, his latest film, Eisenstein in Guanajuato.
Prior to the film and after touring the exhibition, Russian Vanguard. The vertigo of the future, the English filmmaker appreciated the erotic drawings made by Eisenstein during his visit to Mexico in the thirties.
Greenaway recalled that Eisenstein began drawing for pleasure and had a facet of caricaturist, which he even tested in some Russian newspapers, but fortunately, he said, for movie buffs of the world his interest in movies increasingly grew.
“I think these drawings are remarkable because they show us Eisenstein's provocative personality; they are sketches that even caused him problems at customs, not for its pornographic nature, but also because the elements were mixed where the sexual thing was joined with anti-Catholicism. "
These drawings, he said, were part of detonators that encouraged him to make the film, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, which he defined as a free cartoon without censorship that seeks to describe the culture shock that meant the stay of the Russian filmmaker in Mexico and how the intention to make preparations to shoot, Long live Mexico! even become secondary to all the symbolic elements that he lived in these lands.
Eisenstein's stay in Mexico was a culture shock that we just begin to understand, added Peter Greenaway in one of the rooms where the exhibition Russian avant-garde. The vertigo of the future is, at the Palace of Fine Arts.
The filmmaker of The Baby of Macon and The bedside book, said he was convinced that Eisenstein used the drawing thinking also on cinema. While each of his traces had a clear Freudian influence to unravel the subconscious, they served as a sketch or diagram that sought to contain all the plasticity of a film scene.
"I have done something similar, I presented, even in the nineties, in Mexico at Museo Tamayo an exhibition where the pages of many of my scripts showed drawings painted with different colors. Thus, I understand Eisenstein, because sometimes the drawing is the first step to outline a moving scene, but not only its esthetic, but its message, shades, dialogue and spirit", he said.
After the tour around the exhibition, the filmmaker presented the film accompanied by the cast, who include actor Elmer Bäck, who embodies Eisenstein as well as the Mexicans Luis Alberti, Maya Zapata and Lisa Owen.
With a kaleidoscopic composition, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, movie made with the support of the Ministry of Culture, through the Mexican Film Institute, IMCINE (for its contraction in Spanish) and Fiscal Stimulus to Investment Projects in the National Film Production, EFICINE 226 (for its contraction in Spanish), combines archive footage, animation, sequences of Eisenstein’s films and beautiful scenes at emblematic places of Guanajuato, such as Teatro Juárez, where the filmmaker's room is recreated in the skylights room on the first floor.
Standing on the most important stage in Mexico, Peter Greenaway defined the Main Hall of the Palace of Fine Arts as an orgasmic space, where over 15 years ago he presented the opera, 100 objects to represent the world as part of the International Cervantino Festival.
"That same emotion I felt then, I experience it again presenting this new movie to all of you, where regardless of the plot, I identify myself with Eisenstein for his fascination and deep bond with Mexico", added Peter Greenaway.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
