Bolívar, a Tropical Symphony | movie | 1983 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

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This is the first of Diego Risquez’ trilogy of avant-garde cinematic treatments of historical subjects. Using a painte | dG1fYlpWVmVYQWVKWTg

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00:00Look, I just saw in Paris some movies that are filmed in Super 8 with an anamorphic lens in front of the camera

00:05and then expanded to 35 cinemascope.

00:08That gives it an impression of a movie theater.

00:10I'm interested in Super 8 as it is avant-garde, as it is exploratory, as it discovers new possibilities.

00:16For us, Super 8 is the only alternative in which we can produce movies with very little money

00:22and very fast and without making any kind of concessions.

00:26And that's really what we want.

00:28The only problem of Super 8 is really the problem of distribution.

00:32Once the Super 8 movies are made, how do we do to spread them?

00:36So we have invented thousands of alternatives.

00:39Present them in high schools, present them in universities, present them in prisons,

00:42present them in the streets, in the public squares.

00:45We have tried to achieve the maximum.

00:47Try to put them on television.

00:49Well, as we have been working, the possibilities have opened up more.

00:59I have shown this year at the Cannes Film Festival, the 15th edition,

01:03a film by Diego Rizquez, Bolivar, Sinfonia, Tropical.

01:07It is a Venezuelan film.

01:09In this case, it was not the introduction of the Super 8mm format that interested me in Cannes.

01:15It is simply that I discovered, on this occasion,

01:19by going to Super 8 film festivals, a masterpiece.

01:22And it was a masterpiece.

01:25And it is obvious that for everyone,

01:27Diego Rizquez, above all, is the birth of a great director.

01:55Venezuela is a country that suffers from a serious problem of identity.

01:59I believe that the whole oil-mining mentality has deeply affected us.

02:04So it is a country where all kinds of motivation today is at an economic level.

02:09But it is very important to rescue the idea of a man who is a worker,

02:13who is a worker, who is a worker, who is a worker,

02:16who is a worker, who is a worker, who is a worker,

02:19who is a worker, who is a worker, who is a worker,

02:22so it is very important to rescue the idea of a man who gives his life for an ideal of freedom.

02:27Another of the key points of the Bolivar film

02:30was the idea of touching the unconscious collective of Venezuelans

02:33through a whole number of famous paintings,

02:36of everything that can be the patriotic iconography of the time of independence.

02:40To make a review of these images, images that are accustomed by the Venezuelan people,

02:45and give them a new vision of these images.

02:48On the other hand, in the film there are two actors who play the role of Bolivar.

02:51One of them plays the role of Bolivar in the text books,

02:54the Bolivar closer to the superman and the hero than the man,

02:59and the other is the human being, simply.

03:02I am not a fan of Super 8.

03:04One makes Super 8 for reasons more than anything else economic

03:07and for a kind of absolute freedom in terms of the ideas that one raises.

03:11If I could make my film instead of Super 8 in 70mm,

03:14cinema, with the same freedom that I do,

03:17it would seem interesting to me to experiment.

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