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Ce n’est pas un film préconçu, idéologiquementinspiré par le courant, alors en vogue, del’antipsychiatrie. En cela, et pour cela, il dépassenon seulement n’importe quelle chosemontrée par les New-Yorkais, mais aussi lesmanifestes un rien rhétoriques de Marco Bellocchioet ses amis Agosti, Petraglia et Rulli(Matti da slegare / Fous à délier), de Ken Loach(Family Life), ou même de Raymond Depardonet Sophie Ristelhueber (San Clemente).Ils allèrent voir, et ils rapportèrent ce qu’ilsrencontrèrent avec loyauté envers ceux dontils faisaient le portrait. Tel quel, sans ajoutergrand-chose de leur propre compte. Ce n’étaitpas nécessaire. Ils ne savaient pas quelle pouvaitêtre la solution. La seule chose claire estque ce qu’ils rencontrèrent les horrifia. Cettemême horreur nue que le film inspira à sesrares spectateurs, et qui nous le rendit inoubliable.Miguel MaríasOnly foolhardy beginners could think of filming,in such a direct manner, the distressingreality of a psychiatric hospital in a Spain justemerging from the dictatorship – and weshould check on how they manage to do it.This was the only film ever made by the twofilmmakers, Carlos Rodríguez Sanz, a relativelywell-known cinema and theatre critic whodied in 1981, and Manuel Coronado, who wasas unknown to me then as he is today.They succeeded in making an entirely unconventionalfilm. Bare, dry, hard and bitter todegree that very few films shot in Spain haveattained either before or certainly since. Withoutclichés or actors, but with characters. Isn’tsomeone who thinks he is inhabited by anotherperson considered mad? Doesn’t he behavedifferently from the statistically definedstandard of “normality”, and contravene theaccepted norms of proper education, courtesyand hypocrisy? Doesn’t he tell stories thatnobody believes and which are given symbolic,metaphoric or traumatic explanations?The filmmakers did not know how to “make”films. They only knew what they had learntfrom watching them. They lacked even thetechnical basics and, more importantly, theacquired habits and routine that are oftenmistaken for professionalism. They simplymade do with what they had – little time anda minimum of resources -, taking advantageof the confusion and extraordinary freedomthat came with the years of the “Transition”.It was all that was needed to capture a hurtfulreality undisguised. This film is never shownon television and no video or DVD has beenpublished. The young have not seen it, andsome of those who have prefer to forget thisnightmarish vision, which avoids being cruel,scandalous, rhetorical, compassionate andjournalistic. It is the exact opposite of a newsreport. It is a document–neither melodramaticnor pamphleteering.It is not a film written in advance or ideologicallyinspired by the antipsychiatry movementvery much in fashion at the time. As such, andfor that very reason, it goes far beyond anythingshown by the New-Yorkers or the somewhatrhetorical manifestos of Marco Bellocchioand his friends, Agosti, Petraglia and Rulli(Matti da slegare / Fit to Be Untied), Ken Loach(Family Life) or even Raymond Depardon andSophie Ristelhueber (San Clemente). Theywent to actually see, and gave an account thatdid not betray those they filmed. They left thefilm in its raw state without adding much ofthemselves. It was unnecessary. They did nothave any ready solution. The only thing thatis clear is that what they encountered horrifiedthem. The same brute horror felt by thosewho have seen the film, and which made itunforgettable.Miguel MaríasGaudi(1989)Réalisateur : Manuel HuergaImage : Tomás PladevallSon : Joan QuilisMontage : Aixalà, Toti Rovira, Marcel AbrilAvec : Carles Sabater (Gaudi), Elosabeth Escayola,Jesus Orus, Santiago Claramunt, Lluis PadrosProduction : Virginia Films, Paco Poch et La SeptDistribution : Mallerich Films35 mm, n. et bl., 57 mnLa rareté du matériel semble interdire la réalisationd’un documentaire sur le célèbre architecte? Le réalisateur décide de fabriquerles images constituant le contexte de la biographie,toujours fondées sur des événementsréels, ou du moins possibles.Il s’agit alors de transmettre le sentimentd’une époque, à partir d’images extraitesdes décombres de la Guerre civile, de jouerla fiction et l’histoire du cinéma pour approcherun personnage fuyant et mal connu.The lack of material, perhaps, constitutes aninsurmountable obstacle to making a documentaryon this famous architect? The filmmakerhas decided to make images, alwaysbased on real or at least possible events, inorder to recreate the biographical context.What the film does is convey a feeling ofthe times, using images saved from underthe ruins of the Civil War, and enact fictionand cinema history in order to get closer toan evasive and little known figure.Manuel HuergaNé à Barcelone en 1957, Manuel Huerga expérimentelonguement en Super 8, 16 mm etvidéo avant de prendre la tête du départementvidéo de la Fondation Miró de Barcelone,puis de diriger un programme innovateurde TV3 Catalunya, où il réalise Arsenal(1985-1987) et Arsenal-Atlas (1987). Il estaussi l’auteur du documentaire Les VariationsGould, et du long métrage Antartida(1995). Art director pour le théâtre, il estaussi l’initiateur de la télévision numériquelocale BTV. Il a réalisé pour le Centre de Culturecontemporaine de Barcelone la sérieInstintos basicos.Born in Barcelona in 1957, Manuel Huergalong experimented with Super 8, 16 mm andvideo before becoming head of the videodepartment at the Miró Foundation inBarcelona and then directing an innovativeprogramme for TV3 Catalunya, where hemade Arsenal (1985-1987) and Arsenal-Atlas(1987). He also authored the documentary,Les Variacións Gould (The Gould Variations),and the feature film Antártida(Antarctica, 1995). As a theatre art director,he also initiated the local digital television,BTV. He made the series Instintos basicos (exposedin the festival foyer) for the BarcelonaCentre for Contemporary Culture.Tren de sombrasEl espectro de Le Thuit(1996)(Train d’ombres - Le spectre du ThuitTrain of Shadows – The Ghost of Thuit)Scénario et réalisation : José Luis GuerínImage : Tomás PladevallSon : Dani FontrodonaMontage : Manel AlminanaAvec : Anne Céline Auché, Juliette Gaultier, IvonOrvain, Céline Laurent, Simone Mercier, CarlosRomagosa, Lola Besses, René Flory, Marc MontserratProd. Grup Cinema Art / Films 59,producteurs : Pere Portabella et Hector FaverDistribution : Wanda Vision SA35 mm, couleur et n. et bl., 88 mn« Le 8 novembre 1930 à l’aube, l’avocat parisienGérard Fleury partit à la recherche dela lumière qui lui permettrait de terminerun film sur le paysage des alentours du lacde Le Thuit en Normandie. Ce même jour,il mourait dans des circonstances qui aujourd’huiencore restent mystérieuses. Troismois auparavant, il avait réalisé une de sesmodestes productions familiales : celle quiserait accidentellement son dernier film.»« Face au temps de la vie, à un temps éphémèrequi se dérobe constamment, existe cetautre temps du cinéma qui embaume un pande temps par le biais du plan. Mon film débuteen montrant cette tension entre deuxtemps, entre le temps de la vie qui s’enfuitet ce temps embaumé du cinéma. »(J. L. Guerín)72

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