On Thursday 10 March, closed on the occasion of International Women's Day, the lecture series on women's society, past and present, held in the Courtyard Ibercaja Infanta coordinated by Magdalena Lasala.
Paula Ortiz, writer and filmmaker, was in charge of closing these days with a brilliant presentation entitled: Presence of women in art. From Inspiration to management.
The origins of women in art were shaped object, goddess of motherhood and the beauty of the muses that inspire men, or the opposite: The first female sculpture was a Romanesque capital in which Eva twists like a snake. Always this dichotomy between the sweetness of the Virgin Mary or the ambassador of the devil in the form of sin. Throughout the centuries is very difficult to find artistic depictions of angry women, writing, reading or chatting. The speaker recalled that the first words written in Castilian jarchas as were those of a woman who speaks of his love, as its own poetic subject. A very important reference when women claim authorship of many popular songs and compositions known as anonymous. Had to reach the twentieth century to show real women, his resignation from the classic iconography and be present in all artistic endeavors.
Art, said Paula Ortiz, is a social discourse that multiplies in the current society of knowledge and entertainment thanks to the technological revolution of art shows from billboards to television or the Internet. A profusion iconographic that has nothing to do with the minimum close to the art of men who only watched the sculptures of the capitals of the churches.
The need to fill this promotes a market demand audiovisual industry and companies willing to make cultural objects, and therefore social discourse, from the returns that are required to any other activity.
Paula Ortiz, from that moment, focused conference in the world of cinema and the peculiarity of his nature that requires human and technical logistics to get an idea to bring the projector in a room. In that journey the writer said that 20% of the work was inspiration and 80% management.
The director ended last summer filming his first feature film entitled " From your window to mine " A story consists of three stories on the behavior of three women and the time they live. The inspiration for the film was born from a text by Carmen Martin Gaite, from when his mother was sewing and looking out the window queseyo things. " And in a conversation with Mercedes, a beautiful 93 year old lady who smiled and spoke of his Paco "... you can not imagine how was my Paco", with the spark of satisfaction to the surface. The germ of literature and the making of a film production are separated by hundreds of thousands of euros, three years of work and over a hundred people involved in the project. Therefore, to construct a story from the film is necessary to combine the first impulse of the imagination with the management of technical equipment for filming and production, in that attitude is fundamental conception of the office and its limitations.
trades that relate to the film, like any other, are supported by training. The acquisition of knowledge for team leaders sound, cinematography, set design, scriptwriting, production, etc, have an average duration of between 10 and 15. For women, this training comes to an end about 35 years making it very difficult to embark on a project that can last three years and will require them to spend many months away from familiar surroundings comply with the construction process of a film: First, the preparation of a script, a visual project and seeking funding. Second, the selection of players, teams that the factory in the fields of electricity, clothing, hairdressing, etc. In third place is located the shooting and, finally, the post-production and assembly debugging where images and sound. (I really thought the lecturer forgot the last step: The promotion of the film in the media)
This methodology makes it difficult to reconcile work and family life, so many women end up in the world of television or advertising. Paula Ortiz called for new solutions like running crèches for the moment are inconceivable from the point of view of economic production.
The main function in the direction of a film is, said the lecturer, as far as possible take the idea you've had and to do so, you have to lean on everyone who is working on the film. You should never crawl when you can fly. In this task the most important thing is to be aware of the craft of filmmaking and maintain the narrative voice.
Is there a female narrative voice? Paula Ortiz acknowledged that she never had the feeling that being a woman were detrimental to the valuation indents, something we have to thank the women of previous generations who fought for equal effective against men. Then he remembered that Bollain had shot the film "Rain also " which contains very significant elements of what we might call male cinema, adding that directors like Almodóvar or Benito Zambrano endow sensation stories easily attributable to the feminine universe. Under the circumstances, Paula Ortiz, added that the most important and most difficult is to find inspiration, voice and speech. The essential is like telling a story, and recognized that theirs always can see a bit of female soul coming out but do not feel the need to claim a woman's speech.
Paula Ortiz stressed the importance of hard study from the University audiovisual discourses at this time where the stories are consumed at breakneck speed. It is essential to analyze the difference between the use of advertising and film images and sounds, it is not the same visual treatment frivolous, fast and fickle face an experience for the development of a psychological journey that can serve as a vital experience. The feeling when you leave a film and think that life has changed is very difficult to get a commercial. The speaker argued that the film narrative can only tell you what we teach because it lacks the evocative power of literature. The director is the storyteller and the best way of telling stories is to take the party to tell the whole. Having small is a very feminine attitude that stems from the traditions and essential work of sewing, collect. The speech will be vital and interesting if small is able to grow to the universal. A work of weavers and small stitches where there is no difference between male and female genders. In a world where all information is the distance of a click, only one way to make an interesting construct of the story: The leap of imagination to get something new, have the symbolic capacity to invent. One feature that unites the arts with science science, a view that should cover all areas of society. Paula Ortiz lives
work like Sisyphus and the inevitable fate of the stone up the mountain again and again. A task that feels part of a string where his work as director is to stay the course, not to undermine the narrative voice, and remind everyone involved in the project which are the initial coordinates that placed the point of arrival. He concluded with a statement that belonged or so it seemed, as well as professional level, to your privacy: To go further afield there to being pruned.
The brilliant exhibition of Paula Ortiz, his capacity for reflection on the language of film, his academic training in Spain and abroad, their light eyes and the passion they showed for the office of director suggested it as a looks more interesting in the future is already here, in English cinema. And as an epilogue
leave you with three short films of her own:
Paula Ortiz, writer and filmmaker, was in charge of closing these days with a brilliant presentation entitled: Presence of women in art. From Inspiration to management.
The origins of women in art were shaped object, goddess of motherhood and the beauty of the muses that inspire men, or the opposite: The first female sculpture was a Romanesque capital in which Eva twists like a snake. Always this dichotomy between the sweetness of the Virgin Mary or the ambassador of the devil in the form of sin. Throughout the centuries is very difficult to find artistic depictions of angry women, writing, reading or chatting. The speaker recalled that the first words written in Castilian jarchas as were those of a woman who speaks of his love, as its own poetic subject. A very important reference when women claim authorship of many popular songs and compositions known as anonymous. Had to reach the twentieth century to show real women, his resignation from the classic iconography and be present in all artistic endeavors.
Art, said Paula Ortiz, is a social discourse that multiplies in the current society of knowledge and entertainment thanks to the technological revolution of art shows from billboards to television or the Internet. A profusion iconographic that has nothing to do with the minimum close to the art of men who only watched the sculptures of the capitals of the churches.
The need to fill this promotes a market demand audiovisual industry and companies willing to make cultural objects, and therefore social discourse, from the returns that are required to any other activity.
Paula Ortiz, from that moment, focused conference in the world of cinema and the peculiarity of his nature that requires human and technical logistics to get an idea to bring the projector in a room. In that journey the writer said that 20% of the work was inspiration and 80% management.
The director ended last summer filming his first feature film entitled " From your window to mine " A story consists of three stories on the behavior of three women and the time they live. The inspiration for the film was born from a text by Carmen Martin Gaite, from when his mother was sewing and looking out the window queseyo things. " And in a conversation with Mercedes, a beautiful 93 year old lady who smiled and spoke of his Paco "... you can not imagine how was my Paco", with the spark of satisfaction to the surface. The germ of literature and the making of a film production are separated by hundreds of thousands of euros, three years of work and over a hundred people involved in the project. Therefore, to construct a story from the film is necessary to combine the first impulse of the imagination with the management of technical equipment for filming and production, in that attitude is fundamental conception of the office and its limitations.
trades that relate to the film, like any other, are supported by training. The acquisition of knowledge for team leaders sound, cinematography, set design, scriptwriting, production, etc, have an average duration of between 10 and 15. For women, this training comes to an end about 35 years making it very difficult to embark on a project that can last three years and will require them to spend many months away from familiar surroundings comply with the construction process of a film: First, the preparation of a script, a visual project and seeking funding. Second, the selection of players, teams that the factory in the fields of electricity, clothing, hairdressing, etc. In third place is located the shooting and, finally, the post-production and assembly debugging where images and sound. (I really thought the lecturer forgot the last step: The promotion of the film in the media)
This methodology makes it difficult to reconcile work and family life, so many women end up in the world of television or advertising. Paula Ortiz called for new solutions like running crèches for the moment are inconceivable from the point of view of economic production.
The main function in the direction of a film is, said the lecturer, as far as possible take the idea you've had and to do so, you have to lean on everyone who is working on the film. You should never crawl when you can fly. In this task the most important thing is to be aware of the craft of filmmaking and maintain the narrative voice.
Is there a female narrative voice? Paula Ortiz acknowledged that she never had the feeling that being a woman were detrimental to the valuation indents, something we have to thank the women of previous generations who fought for equal effective against men. Then he remembered that Bollain had shot the film "Rain also " which contains very significant elements of what we might call male cinema, adding that directors like Almodóvar or Benito Zambrano endow sensation stories easily attributable to the feminine universe. Under the circumstances, Paula Ortiz, added that the most important and most difficult is to find inspiration, voice and speech. The essential is like telling a story, and recognized that theirs always can see a bit of female soul coming out but do not feel the need to claim a woman's speech.
Paula Ortiz stressed the importance of hard study from the University audiovisual discourses at this time where the stories are consumed at breakneck speed. It is essential to analyze the difference between the use of advertising and film images and sounds, it is not the same visual treatment frivolous, fast and fickle face an experience for the development of a psychological journey that can serve as a vital experience. The feeling when you leave a film and think that life has changed is very difficult to get a commercial. The speaker argued that the film narrative can only tell you what we teach because it lacks the evocative power of literature. The director is the storyteller and the best way of telling stories is to take the party to tell the whole. Having small is a very feminine attitude that stems from the traditions and essential work of sewing, collect. The speech will be vital and interesting if small is able to grow to the universal. A work of weavers and small stitches where there is no difference between male and female genders. In a world where all information is the distance of a click, only one way to make an interesting construct of the story: The leap of imagination to get something new, have the symbolic capacity to invent. One feature that unites the arts with science science, a view that should cover all areas of society. Paula Ortiz lives
work like Sisyphus and the inevitable fate of the stone up the mountain again and again. A task that feels part of a string where his work as director is to stay the course, not to undermine the narrative voice, and remind everyone involved in the project which are the initial coordinates that placed the point of arrival. He concluded with a statement that belonged or so it seemed, as well as professional level, to your privacy: To go further afield there to being pruned.
The brilliant exhibition of Paula Ortiz, his capacity for reflection on the language of film, his academic training in Spain and abroad, their light eyes and the passion they showed for the office of director suggested it as a looks more interesting in the future is already here, in English cinema. And as an epilogue
leave you with three short films of her own:
The Face of Ido (Paula Ortiz, 2003) from Poppy Films on Vimeo .
Family Photos (Paula Ortiz, 2005) from Poppy Films on Vimeo .
The Hollow of Tristan Boj (Paula Ortiz, 2008) from Poppy Films on Vimeo .
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