Roberto Valtueña: "The producers who stop rolling, they are wrong, and much"
Valtueña Roberto is one of those erotic filmmakers think first in history that will count in his films and then the sex scenes. Sound engineer by profession, and in permanent contact with the world of advertising, one day decided to get behind the camera and started shooting short. "The woman in the mirror" was the beginning of an exciting career as a director that won second prize in that mode in the Ficeb 2004. Then came "The Gift" which was the sensation of Ficeb 2006. The success of "The Gift" made Thagson contratase Roberto to direct "World Dog" and "The Resolution" also won top awards at the time in the porn industry. When I was embarked on the project of "The Private Life of Helen Brasal" economic crisis erupted and Thagson no choice but to disassociate tube project. Roberto thought of as following and embarked on a risky but courageous: to create a cooperative with all involved in the film, which may set a precedent and a change in the form of erotic film shoot in the coming months. Today Roberto visited us in our writing and provided to answer questions in an interview on our website.
Greetings Roberto. Tell us a bit about your career, in and out of porn.
Well, I'm out of porn sound engineer and designer, design soundtracks for film strips and advertising purposes, mainly in Spain and advertising is where the economic market. This is what I've been doing since I arrived in Australia that was where I grew up and somehow I had my principles and my professional education. I came here, we set up a company that is now led, first to the Pueblo Nuevo and now in the Tibidabo. Porn comes five years ago when I decide to make a short given my penchant for get behind a camera. I always throw my shorts, my stuff and my stories. Besides the issue of porn and erotica has always been something that I liked and I've never had trouble recognizing him. With the midlife crisis managers and directors I have friends who always encouraged me to release me more with my work, and so I went to the Ficeb. It was very good. The platform of the "talk" to "be". From there we went to "The Gift" which was the next movie, and then to "World Dog" and "The Resolution". And now shooting the last one is "The Private Life of Helen Brasal".
Tell us the story of "The Private Life of Helen Brasal". What is your argument?.
-They are stories of the two or three years that I know actresses who are very curious. Not having known before girls of this world have known things that are very strong. People who have spent much, his tics and things that are similar to each other. Home, partners, etc.. These are details and things that I would count, and then leaves Helena who is a porn actress. It is your story. Conversations are developed by another main character who is a sculptor named Victor. He comes from a good family with good education. It's something you notice in the speech when compared to the speech that has Helena is a girl on the street. Are their conflicts, relationship problems, all tucked into a film that purports to be more erotic than pornographic which is where I'm finding more and more comfortable. Working over that part of "coco" not the "crotch".
¿Install a cooperative to shoot porn is a hopeful alternative to the crisis?.
-More than hopeful, is the only alternative. At a time when industry is paralyzed alternative is what? ... Not many, and this was one. What is clear is that standing still is death. Any production company for their projects, and resume when things go well it is mistaken, a lot. The producers when they stop shooting, they die. It's like an actress when removed, is over. We wore a path as a producer on Razorback good, slow, and the kind of movie we did. We had reached the conclusion that we should shoot three or four productions a year, and suddenly when we have the contacts and the market, especially outside of Spain, was when he decided to stop producing because there is no money ... was reacting, first with rage. But then we made the decision of the cooperative. The surprise was the reaction of everyone, the involved staff reacted very well and got involved at the time. First because you know several years ago. We have made all the movies together. Then the actors who got to participate caches or directly said "I do not charge, I'll pay when you enter the benefit", which after all, is what is addressed in a cooperative. Together we started a project in which the minimum expenses do not exceed the cost of a gonzo, although this clearly is not.
Some people told us that this film will be a before and after in the history of Spanish porn film. What have you to say to that?.
-No. I do not think there is a before and after anything. I think there are things opportunistic moments, decisions you make ... also said that "The Gift" and then they are good films in his time there was a detail. A before and after for me if. For this project I'm walking away a little more the concept of porn and I go more on the erotic, which I think is more interesting at the level of future, television issues, etc, etc. And because the film market is going in that direction. The tube erotic film market its logic in the seventies, and although it seems that, increasingly is consumed. There is a huge void of this type of product. And there's that void because the conventional film gets closer to the concept of erotic cinema. Leasehold Only because there are not very strict rules that control it. If not, I would echo. Some people tell me that's not going to happen and I say that yes, if it will happen, I'm sure. When these rules of conventional cinema break, I want to be there. If not then if we can say that if it's over. Then the porn industry are webcams and conventional film explicit sex. Production as we know it today will disappear.
How would you define your style when it comes to porn shoot in three words? ...
A fuck-why (laughs). The argument is a reason to fuck. For fuck must have a reason.
Do you believe in the need for survival FICEB?.
'I think there needs to be a festival, yes. At FICEB I have a special affection, because when I started. I lived very nice moments. It is always one thing you have with love. I hope so, that the FICEB survive, with the changes that have to do, already marked. But I think there is a necessity. A site with some seriousness where the industry is once a year. In conventional film festival in San Sebastian or Cannes are needed. Not so much the level of business you do, but because they go back to relive things. For example at the level of advertising, the festival of San Sebastian. And you feel things because things happen. Actually in a market like Spanish where they live so far apart from each other, it's time to go out and meet everyone, because that's important. Actors, actresses, directors, producers ... with the changes that have to represent.
Is there anything left of the "Golden Age of Spanish porn" that's where you win all your prizes?.
-Si. All people who were there, still there. They are burned because as in every effort to make a film more elaborate, because few people can imagine what it means. In exchange for the reward existing today is almost nonexistent. By looking forward to you, burning you if you just end up finding ways. There is a little problem. It is the people. For example Pepe Catman was burned and I said "Uncle Pepe, can not fold this. Get into the group. " A little cooperative consisted in this, go picking people who were a little apart. There are still things to decide and do. Another thing is to find the business about it, because the more time you spend, you'll have to find ways to live on.
Do you think the "gonzo" is loaded with porn story and screenplay?.
-No. The gonzo not. Being vague if. Minimum effort maximum performance that is gonzo. If our grandparents' time, people masturbated watching the National Geographic photographs with black with tits hanging around the waist, then from there, if that's enough, just put a ball and aunt will function. If the end is just masturbating to that picture you have it easy. Just simplify, and simplify, and simplify. The technology also enables a higher quality economic tools that allow you to think less. I think the gonzo itself is unfair. But through the gonzo many actors and actresses can live because it is a good money for them. I, I do two hours of work, collections and I'm going home. The photo series is a much more serious for everyone, without financial reward equivalent. I do not think it has loaded. Before people masturbating with a Playboy, and now she takes on a movie. Playboy was not a substitute for the cinema of his day, nor a substitute gonzo I think of what a porn or erotic. I think the word "porn" would have to go deleting it and leave it "gonzo". And when we discuss the other left in porn "movies with explicit sex", which I think would be most logical.
What happens to the Spanish porn?. How do you see the current situation?.
-Mal. Bad but not as much by the crisis, but vague. "We'll see", "Hey man, if I hang it to make a living" or "if I sell this for me I catalog also making a living." So the crisis is that you're not willing to work and fight. There is always a way to fix things, but there must be desire. Or is there a beast blood renewal, production level, young people with new ideas and enthusiasm or else ... If the industry depends on the four or five who are always in the industry, who do not want to keep fighting, as wrong . But for that reason. Not so much by the crisis, but for lack of desire to do things ... (and I've already loaded this friendship with half of the producers in question).
What raises Roberto Valtueña solutions to get out of the current crisis?.
-Do not stop. Still occur. And go outside. Abroad, things are very different. "The Resolution" and "The Gift" abroad are working very well. Germany is one of the places where people still conceived "pay per view". Piracy is not there as here. In Germany pay to see something. Works out well because there is the concept of "alternative porn", the moves that are now with the "porn for women" and moved several. A more elaborate and distinct product has good start. You are video-clubs of these little ones who sold a surprising number and ask them how do you achieve this? ", And tell you that customers and partners are asking and say" we have this and this ... we have only ten copies. " There is someone who tells you very well what kind of product are at the video store, and is something that works very well. And is running out.
Does the consumer of porn has changed the way they do?.
-Si. If before I had to go to the video store or kiosk to rent or buy the movie, now view the Internet and you have the time. There is a very curious thing about the concept of the Internet, which is the "free beer". Before you came and consumers called for a mix drink of whiskey and looked very good brand and type of whiskey that Put them. Now with the "free beer" three cucumbers cares what you get, and that after all is not paying for it. Internet has the dangerous concept that says "I just want to see this." Then the user will quickly find that part. It is good at the consumer level, but I hope it is a time trend. Imagine a child going to school and say "you just learn, learn what you want." Wafers ... not good. As if you're reading a book and know that in this page is a punch of the protagonist and you skip the whole book to read the part punch. I think you miss things. The absolute freedom as open, not quite good. You can lose a lot along the way if only you just see what you want without knowing what you had before you. Do not think it's all good.
Does the Internet represents an alternative to porn, or destroy your chances of distribution?.
-Neither one nor the other. I remember a debate in a Proporn on the issue of new technologies ... I remember that I said "now seems more important to the box to the TV, the TV is inside." Such is the monster that has been generated by Internet content becomes something merely secondary. I think we need to pass this madness for the content dowload again have the importance it deserves. Internet is great to bring that product in the best shape, price, quality, speed, your consumer. More direct impossible. I think it is great insurance. What happens is that now there is at that point. The big mistake I think is to think "as this works this way, what kind of product we do?" Or "we have this box and we have to see what kind of TV enters the box" ... no man, the box has to be done according to the size of the TV, is a wrapper. We will not create the TV going in the box and the box goes in the truck. We are a bit of confusion at that point. Many now think that you have to do scenes of ten minutes, because that is what needs to be done for the Internet. As I am creator of a product is difficult to find the business parameter. The film has had a lot of evolution, but have always been ninety minutes telling a story. It has never changed. The industry is at the point of thinking that the Internet is an enemy. But we have to find the point of thinking that what matters is the material that you want to go. Internet should be the vehicle.
What do you think about the controversy with the publication of the book by Ramiro Lapiedra "Epiphany, a porn shoot?". Is there really much lag on movie Porno.
-A manager looked one day a script that we had no light, and said "Robert, when you have nothing better to say, it is, drop a cue, jump with someone ... like you have nothing better to say ...". And that is a reality. If you have nothing better to say, a good way to do is get with others. It's unfortunate, but not only happening in this industry. What happens is that everything that happens here is magnified by the media. This is what happened to Ramiro and Roberto Chivas. Overall often when the person is dismissed. When you've reached the end of your career, and you feel disappointed because you believed in something that has not been and do you think are other makers that have not been, and that's when you turn around and bite like that. And on top you can get into the pocket two or three thousand euros ... if you think that's consistent, it is worth. I would like that the day out, doing it very quietly, as I entered. I think the best way in and out is to say "it was a pleasure meeting you, but my path has changed, and that's it."
Tell us the opinion that you deserve the concept of "porn for women" representing Erika Lust.
-The search is necessary in a sea of content that is exactly equal to each other, to find something different. Do I believe in porn for women?, It is difficult because I am a woman. What I do understand is that with age your audiovisual needs about sex are changing. When we get older if they understand that we're looking more to women because we are more far-fetched, look before and after and things that happen. Overall, I think that women need a reason, a reason to get to that point. The morbid touch has to be something else to call the butane to the door. Maybe that something is what is bringing the film Erika. Why should we have ten minutes of this, and does it have to be like the ten minute blowjob and cunnilingus five?, Why, is it so?, Why five or six scenes?, Can you not be three?. In that sense I think that is the contribution of "porn for women". What happens is that as a trademark the term "porn for women" is great. I think as the word is more marketing than reality. In Germany one of my distributors told me "Bob, when something new signature films as a woman, because I sell four times more." "The Gift" in one of these stores is distributed with a name director. They told me they were engaged in some women, and has a title with director did better. And like the movie?. Yep, they love it. So I think it is a good brand.
Tell us an actor, an actress and a director for you to respect deeply.
As director Ridley Scott, because I think it is very difficult what he has done. I do not think that is the brightest of all, but this for over twenty years, and at each change of cycle two or three years, setting trends with his films is very complicated. I know of no other director who has managed to do that. Ridley Scott if you have one and it is very complicated. Making Blade Runner is a film that does not have to does not seem to pass the time, regardless of the weather you see it ... Ridley Scott would be. Actors and actresses ... none in particular. There are roles and actions that say "wafers, that good and well that this actor has been here", but I have no favorites. Director if: Ridley Scott.
Whatever happens with the project of "Private Life of Helen Brasal" will still work in the world of porn?.
I hope so. I make my living in a different sector. It depends on what the industry will allow me this. I wish so. A cooperative long-term sense, never short term. We have to produce enough. In the next three or four years at least three or four films a year. I as a director, two or three a year, but as a producer three or four each year.
Finally, and as always do with all our interviewees, what you think about the work done by the entire staff of EstrellasDelPorno.com?.
-Very well. I think it's important in this industry, the state is going, not their own opinion. I think that's journalism. Convert each title in more honest and more credible when there is no direct opinion. I think it's good and I hope they reach beyond. I have to admit that if I read it, but maybe not as often as it should. I think it still lacks a little more to stay as a reference. Go to mount a festival, and be converted into reference (laughs).
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