He works with a small, reliable team, on a tight budget, and always uses amateur actors who are almost all from the place where he grew up. He will participate in Q&As with the public, and on 7.9 Nicholas Wackerbarth will host a debate among filmmakers as part of the "Revolver Live" series.Īlbert Serra’s cinema is stripped down to the essentials. We are very pleased that Albert Serra will be with us at Arsenal. Furthermore, we will also screen a making-of film showing the artist at work.
Arsenal will be showcasing his feature films, as well as works created for exhibitions, including one short that was part of the monumental "The Three Little Pigs" project commissioned by dOCUMENTA (13). However, despite his international reputation his works are not well known in Germany. For some years, Serra has also worked on visual arts projects commissioned by various museums. Since his sensational debut HONOR DE CAVALLERIA (2006), his films have received plenty of attention at film festivals, with his HISTÒRIA DE LA MEVA MORT (2013) being awarded the main prize at Locarno. They are, as they should be, looking for adventure and while they speak - and remain silent - about both down-to-earth practical issues and courtly and spiritual subjects, a bond develops between the two men.The Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra (*1975) is one of the most important innovators in contemporary cinema. We see Don Quijote and his servant Sancho (played by the wonderful ‘non-professionals’ Lluís Carbó and Lluís Serrat) on their journey through the empty landscape (throughout the film there isn’t a single human construction to be seen). In addition, Serra also uses other (mediaeval) sources and so the film succeeds in a miraculous way in its aim of re-creating the more or less historic characters that may well have served as a source of inspiration for Cervantes. On the contrary, the gentle human approach that makes this film so moving brings us closer to heaven… This film was made on a limited budget and, while it is based on Cervantes’ Don Qui j ote,there are few recognizable scenes and not a windmill in sight. This serene, painterly film debut reminds us of the films of Ozu, Olmi, Bresson and Pasolini, but also of the ideas and approach of Godard, Rocha and Paradzhanov (occasionally explicitly), without being disruptive or irritating. Clear and to the point - both through homages in his film and in accompanying text and interviews - he states what he wants to achieve. Albert Serra is original, without making a secret of whom and what inspired him.
Honor of the Knights is easily the most striking Spanish film of 2006.
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