WORKSHOP CINEMA PULP -SANTULUSSURGIU – 8 TO 11 AUGUST

CINEMATOGRAPHY WORKSHOP IV Year
Theoretical-practical seminar on PULP CINEMA
From 08/08/2012 to 11/08/2012
Directed by: RICHARD Barracu
20 participants

Time: 09.30 – 13.00 and from 15.30 to 19.00

Entry fee: 170 € including membership card and insurance fee

For residents of Santulussurgiu the workshop is free, is charged only that portion of the student’s own insurance fee of 20 Euro.

Registration form not yet included, require it to laboratori@teatrodelsegno.com

Outcomes of Video Labs Film directed by Richard Barracu in previous years: http://www.percorsiteatrali.it/?page_id=122

Notes on the laboratory.

THE PULP CINEMA

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The Pulp is the term used in the thirties to identify the vast flowering of American magazines devoted to detective stories, thrillers, or sci-fi (pulp magazine). The term pulp came back strongly in fashion in Europe in 1994 after the success of Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, to name a genre film featuring images and very raw and bloody. Mistakenly so, today we tend to indicate the term pulp all those films that offer strong content and which abound in violent crimes and cruelties, though in reality the world of cinema that is considered pulp should be called exploitation, being a pulp generally more strictly literary.

The second half of the nineties of last century saw the rise of the pulp in Italy. To the young writers of stories has been bloody indeed dedicated a major portion and on the discussions between professionals that has dominated the pages of newspapers and magazines, only to shed light on a phenomenon at least quantitatively significant. After a decade of research by young foolish, finally – if I may say so – the editors have managed to flesh out (and page) to a movement quite unique and therefore also capable of winning the stage of the distracted media. He spoke, however, much of the phenomenon in itself that the literary value of the authors who gave him life, emphasizing rather the sociological connotations – and anthropological – of these writers. It is often stated that the pulp is the most obvious result of the fall of the Berlin Wall, pursued by young people who have never known the ideologies and therefore without solid political principles, to the fray in the society of pure consumption. The film builds its core parallel drawing on literary structure, expanding its definition and characteristics of the image by making it his own. They stand out new characters and nuances that encode feelings and languages.

In the new and broader sense, pulp ends to identify, especially within the independent American cinema, a type of violent and bloody film, which reduces the apparent amorality with black humor and surreal asides. Belong to the genre, first of all, direct such films Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Four rooms, or as codiretti scripted True Romance, Natural Born Killers by Quentin Tarantino. Are then added to the list, with some caveats, the explicitly “tarantiniani” Kalifornia (1993) by Dominic Sena and Doom Generation (1995) by G. Araki, the films of Tarantino as teachers or students of J. Inthe Killer Woo and Robert Rodriguez From Dusk Till Dawn, and even film noir like Seven (1995) by D. Fincher or updated classics such as Richard III (1996) by Richard Loncraine. The slope can be considered pulp fiction, and Independence Day (1996), perhaps not intentionally, and Mars Attacks! (1997), some voluntarily knowing the passion for fiction less than T. Burton.

Not only do these writers-directors of the most famous scene in PULP already defined vie for hegemony and the spread of the genre but as D.Cronemberg pioneers and forerunners D.Lynch are delineated as a new way to communicate through the medium of film and describe .

Given the difficulty of the creative project in the laboratory will suddviso indipendeti two modules together and in preparation.

The first module of the workshop aims to explore the filmmakers and their works that have developed significantly over the “Pulp language” through the images and their creative technique. Necessarily it also explores its literary genesis, fundamental to the understanding of the writing and multifaceted and complex. Language becomes a new genre, the Pulp love it or hate it, and naturally leads to extremes.

All the elements that constitute and define characters, settings are more loads, more vivivdi and at the same time lead to a narrative in which there is not much room for complex considerations. It is involved in a tense and fast sequences and the “sense of wonder”, the wonder that must take precedence over realism.

During the workshop than the theoretical exploration activities will be structured with students a subject related to the project and followed the script, the camera movements, the structure of characters that is remarkable for depth and consistency, locations, costumes, accessories, in short, all essential parts and necessary for the practical realization of a short film that will be operated in the second form provided.

The intensive course is intended for the duration of four days for students, fans, scholars and curious kind.