Luis Garcia Berlanga: "The erotic film is when they do the rich. The pornographic when they do the poor"
We wanted to make a small tribute EstrellasDelPorno.com Don Luis Garcia Berlanga , one of the great masters of contemporary Spanish cinema who died recently , and we will retrieving and delivering on our website an interview some years ago published in ElPais.es . In this interview Don Luis speaks as honorary president of FICEB , the world of erotic and pornographic film of that time calling it "cinema of pleasure." And his fetish for high heels, which motivated the creation of the Academy of heel needle. Wherever you are now, we send a big hug to Don Luis. Do not forget.
(By Thomas Delclos to ElPais.es - 05/10/2003) Luis Garcia Berlanga is the honorary president of the XI International Erotic Film Festival of Barcelona. What of honor not because. More than eight years hardly watch movies. Not porn, not art-house. "My grandfather was a senator of Sagasta and me, from age six, was fascinated with the book reading session. I read a lot until I entered the cinema. Now I'm despantallizando, to put it in a way that is not going to like the Academy. Leo, I write ... ". But Berlanga has traveled to Barcelona to support industry, erotic movies, liable to be invisible. Despite this and that the accounts are difficult. The porn industry in Spain, in all its forms, moving about 350 million euros annually.
Question. Should not be called porn film festival and be of semantic shame?
Response. The only thing that I think I agreed with Eisner was his theory that the difference between erotic and pornographic films was strictly administrative. I, when I demagogic, I have my own definition. The erotic film is when they do the rich. The porn, when they do the poor. Pornography is a pejorative word [the dictionary defines it as a treatise on prostitution]. I do not like the movie X. It would be better to talk pleasure film.
Q. There are more definitions. For example, pornography is the eroticism of the others. In the film The Year of Living Dangerously, a photographer, to discern whether the image of a nude woman is art or pornography, says that if you are out of focus is art and if you are focused ... pornography.
A. All are nice. The problem is that in the erotic film would have to be more attentive to gender. It bores me to death what I call "cinema piston" pure intercourse. Instead, whenever with mutual consent and pleasure of those involved, I like fetish movies, sadomasochistic.
Q. The most common porn accustomed to lack of plot and characters. Barthes said that if there is love ... there is no perversion. And the most common adult film lacks them, only athletes. Instituted more than a relationship works out.
A. I think the most perfect of all meetings of the sadomasochistic pair is because you need to script, sets, costumes, staging, trust between the parties ... is built a ceremony. The pity is regulated by society or the Church. No wonder more routine intercourse be called the missionary position. It is the saddest of marital intercourse. You have to speculate and magnify the acts of love.
Q. Many movies lack aesthetic ambition. There are no shadows, the light is operating theater ...
A. I tell you I'm not reciprocating film enthusiast. Instead, sadomasochism, fetishism, has more aesthetic project, with a fantasy object world, although more expensive.
P. The porn is not without its own taboos. There are never problems with erection, orgasms are kilometric in unison, and so on.
A. This is as American commercial cinema. There, in the end, the two main characters kiss and ends happily married. Here also everything is going well.
Q. Perhaps an explanation that this film has little aesthetic ambition is that their industry is punished, marginalized.
A. The invisible force. This is a problem. Anyway, I think some producers already like the smell of the catacombs because it offers greater disruption to customers. However, it is true that an industry is punished administratively, socially, politically, culturally ... I would have to come out as gay people have made. I have always shown an early age clearly my shocks in this area. More than I like to talk about sexual perversions of erotic entertainment in the double sense of fun and diverse. Another problem is that their market is very complicated and distribution mechanisms hinder the relationship between customer and product.
Berlanga is convinced that the culture ostracism is not confined to porn, but anything having to do with eroticism unorthodox. He knows very well because it manages the collection of erotic books Vertical Smile. "In this collection have great writers and published writers. However, criticism has consistently ignored. "
On Friday, Berlanga was particularly pleased. Finally, he and a group of illustrious friends had managed the administrative record of a foundation to be called the Academy of heel needle. "It is supported financially by the Footwear Museum of Elda. It's about having a cultural platform to claim, as Oscar said Tusquets, one of the best-designed objects, more seductive. " The Academy plans to organize events, screenings ... all praise to the garment between the fetishes fetish.
Chatting with Berlanga is held in a corner of the festival VIPs. The projections are made in theaters, but there, on the campus of La Forge de L'Hospitalet, has raised a real trade show. There are stalls of leather clothes, magazines and producers display their novedades.Una of them announces Laura is alone as "the first erotic film aimed at women," an attempt to approach a difficult clientele. Porn not only receives the right-thinking pumpkins. The feminist literature by considering the macho massacres, a showcase of women-object attentive only to male voyeurism. The fair has other offers including non-stop entertainment strip, a coffee fetish, fighting in the mud and a gay section. This area reviews the work of photographer Jean Daniel Cadinot about the beauty of male love. Same held a congress of webmasters to study the takeoff of this offer on the Internet and their technical challenges. The festival, meanwhile, pays tribute to American filmmaker Andrew Blake - Paris chic, The house of dreams - and the actor and Spanish director Nacho Vidal. This morning will be awarded prizes and Ninfa HeatGay between sixty films in competition, some with titles such witty and easy resonances as Weapons of Destruction Anal, playing doctors, Cocks and groans and I know who you sucked last summer .
