"The cinemas to come", the new book by Jerónimo Atehortúa
Recently, La Marca editor published "The cinemas to come", the critic's new book, Colombian screenwriter and director Jerónimo Atehortúa.
in this post, the author talks with 15 contemporary filmmakers; there appears Lucrecia Martel, Albert Serra, Rita Azevedo Gomes, Mariano Llinás, Victor Gaviria, Albertina Carri, Alice Rohrwacher, Victor Erice, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Carlos Reygadas, Kelly Reichardt, Lav Diaz, Peter Coast, Radu Jude and a study on Béla Tarr, with whom the author of Cinemas to Come studied at the Sarajevo Film Academy.
Due, those dialogues will be transported to paper, delivering a book that breathes the passion for cinema and in turn provides an overview of the direction that the seventh art will take.
As the author explains, the future of cinema "is not assured" and in turn adds that his death "has been declared more than once and there have been many who have attempted his life". In this way, "Cinema is perhaps the art most accustomed to fantasizing about its own end; in this deeply rooted apocalyptic sense it is fully an art of our time”.
Among the topics covered in the book, there are recurring concerns, like the changes in the reception of the films, with the passage from the big screen to the devices; the standardization of the formats and ways of telling a story based on the pre-eminence of industrial cinema and platform series; and how an auteur film manages to be made in terms of production.