The cinemas to come

This book brings together my encounters with fifteen contemporary authors. While preparing the first interviews, I thought that my interest was in the creative processes of each director, but along the way, I realized that my concerns went far beyond understanding the craft. I found myself tracing relationships from interview to interview, creating a personal constellation among authors, detecting their traditions, influences, making interpretations, building bridges and dialogues. I also discovered that, although all the dialogues were held with a good degree of spontaneity, without following an identical format, certain questions were clearly repeated in them.

One thing I learned while writing this book was to read carefully what authors say about their works. Their discourses are paratexts that seek to guide the reception of their films in one of the multiple senses they can have, even if they claim not to want to say anything to avoid determining the viewer. In this, I agree with Ricardo Piglia, I do not believe there are authors without theory: in any case, naivety, spontaneity, anti-intellectualism are a theory, quite complex and sophisticated. From the prologue to this edition.

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