AGUST 8TH 6:00PM
In recent years, it has been all too common to hear prestigious old-school Hollywood filmmakers, many with the distinctive reputation of auteur, offer their two cents to the popularity of the established Marvel and DC Comics movie universes. Some in a more pejorative and condemnatory tone than others, virtually all have inadvertently contributed to the formation of a narrative according to which any director working in the service of such franchises, far from being a genuine artist according to the postulates of auteur theory, is in reality a simple salaried artisan with no real voice in the creative process. But will it be true? Is superhero cinema really helping to destroy the director’s image as a filmmaker with a personal vision? On the other hand, could both be not mutually exclusive, but rather complementary? Would it be possible to have a superhero franchise with the requirements to be considered “author’s cinema”? And if so, what exactly would that imply for both ways of understanding the seventh art?
Aimed at: Public interested in the subject.
Video room of the Olimpo Cultural Center / Calle 62 x 61, Centro
