Alberto Varet Pas An artist’s statement
What is cinema? Or, at least, what is cinema today? When everything seems to be devaluated I ask myself for the value of the image. That is the reason I have abandoned the use of the screenplay in my lasts works. Because I want to get some inspiring moments far from the slavery of a text. I work this way because I have discovered that is the best one to bring out something real from our life. The best one to shoot its beauty, capable of justify our existence, and bring back its lost sense to the images. Because, like Picasso, I prefer to finding instead of looking for. In free spirits like his I have found the inspiration for my work. I mean artists like BuĂąuel, Malick or Pedro Costa, who have guided my steps. Without them I had not been able to build a cinema that says without talking. Because I really feel that there is where the truly freedom rests in the contemporary audiovisual: in the spaces far from noise and obviousness.
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