Antonio Gaudí

"İnsanın yarattığı her şey, doğanın o büyük kitabında zaten yazılıdır; insanların eserleri ise sadece basılmış, somutlaşmış birer kitaptır."

Antoni gaudi gibi harika bir sanatçının bakış açısı ancak bu kadar iyi aktarılabilirdi. Adam gibi bir konuşma neredeyse olmamasına rağmen bana durmaksizin biyografik veya sanatsal binlerce bilgi söyleyen belgesellerden bin kat daha fazla şey kattı.

Katalan kültürünün en büyük sanat temsilcisilerinden ve mimari sanatı insan ve dogadan ayirmaktansa onun bir parçası olarak gören gaudinin eserleri için bu kadar gerici ve rahatsız edici sesler seçilmesi bana ilk izlediğimde absürt geldi. Ama takemitsu ve teshigaharanın bakış açısında bu eserler sürrealizmin de harikalarıydı bu sürrealist eserler bazen rüya bazen de kabus gibi hissettiriyordu. O ambiyans ve müzik seçimi bana antoni gaudiye hiç bakmadığım bir açıdan baktırdı. Cansınız❤️

"İnsanın yarattığı her şey, doğanın o büyük kitabında zaten yazılıdır; insanların eserleri ise sadece basılmış, somutlaşmış birer kitaptır."

Antoni gaudi gibi harika bir sanatçının bakış açısı ancak bu kadar iyi aktarılabilirdi. Adam gibi bir konuşma neredeyse olmamasına rağmen bana durmaksizin biyografik veya sanatsal binlerce bilgi söyleyen belgesellerden bin kat daha fazla şey kattı.

Katalan kültürünün en büyük sanat temsilcisilerinden ve mimari sanatı insan ve dogadan ayirmaktansa onun bir parçası olarak gören gaudinin eserleri için bu kadar gerici ve rahatsız edici sesler seçilmesi bana ilk izlediğimde absürt geldi. Ama takemitsu ve teshigaharanın bakış açısında bu eserler sürrealizmin de harikalarıydı bu sürrealist eserler bazen rüya bazen de kabus gibi hissettiriyordu. O ambiyans ve müzik seçimi bana antoni gaudiye hiç bakmadığım bir açıdan baktırdı. Cansınız❤️

The entire documentary feels like the beginning of a PBS show and you're just endlessly waiting for the narration to start and it never does. Seventy minutes of sweeping shots and stills of buildings and interiors with zero context. Sure, this is an interesting looking room, but where is it? That roof is unique, but why are you showing it to me? Cool stairs, but why are the like that? Nothing. Some scenes aren't even related to Antonio Gaudí, like the seven minutes we spend in some random restaurant kitchen. I don't know who the fuck this was made for. Usually you are meant to learn something from a documentary, but I couldn't tell you a single thing about Gaudí before or after. I don't know where these things are, what his inspiration was, what he was trying to convey, or anything. The back of the Criterion brings up "camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject's organic structures" and calls this film "a unique, enthralling cinematic experience". I don't know what kind of drugs the person was on when they wrote that, but I wholeheartedly disagree; there is no art in waking down a hallway holding a camera or setting up a tripod to record three minutes of an alcove. Sensual? The fuck are you talking about? It's just footage of buildings and structures with no discernable context or reason. It really feels like someone forgot to include the audio they recorded and accidentally clicked on "royalty free background music" instead. I see a lot of reviews that say this is a good replacement for going to a museum, but what kind of museum has no placards or sections? Imagine going to an art museum and it's just hundreds of paintings on four long, blank, white walls with nothing telling you who painted it, when, where, with/on what. No little blurbs about the time period or what supposed to convey. Shit, imagine a Modern Art museum like that. A unique looking archway is cool on its own, but why should I care? They finally give us something with Weird Church and it's great to actually know something about what they're showing me, but it's just a little taste and then the credits roll. What was I supossed to get out of this? I feel like I could find twenty YouTube videos better than this within five minutes.

The entire documentary feels like the beginning of a PBS show and you're just endlessly waiting for the narration to start and it never does. Seventy minutes of sweeping shots and stills of buildings and interiors with zero context. Sure, this is an interesting looking room, but where is it? That roof is unique, but why are you showing it to me? Cool stairs, but why are the like that? Nothing. Some scenes aren't even related to Antonio Gaudí, like the seven minutes we spend in some random restaurant kitchen. I don't know who the fuck this was made for. Usually you are meant to learn something from a documentary, but I couldn't tell you a single thing about Gaudí before or after. I don't know where these things are, what his inspiration was, what he was trying to convey, or anything. The back of the Criterion brings up "camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject's organic structures" and calls this film "a unique, enthralling cinematic experience". I don't know what kind of drugs the person was on when they wrote that, but I wholeheartedly disagree; there is no art in waking down a hallway holding a camera or setting up a tripod to record three minutes of an alcove. Sensual? The fuck are you talking about? It's just footage of buildings and structures with no discernable context or reason. It really feels like someone forgot to include the audio they recorded and accidentally clicked on "royalty free background music" instead. I see a lot of reviews that say this is a good replacement for going to a museum, but what kind of museum has no placards or sections? Imagine going to an art museum and it's just hundreds of paintings on four long, blank, white walls with nothing telling you who painted it, when, where, with/on what. No little blurbs about the time period or what supposed to convey. Shit, imagine a Modern Art museum like that. A unique looking archway is cool on its own, but why should I care? They finally give us something with Weird Church and it's great to actually know something about what they're showing me, but it's just a little taste and then the credits roll. What was I supossed to get out of this? I feel like I could find twenty YouTube videos better than this within five minutes.

It’s extremely simple filmmaking, but very effective. Teshigahara does not over complicate the beauty of Gaudí’s work by burdening you with context. He just finds the best way to display in cinematically and let’s the camera do the rest.

It’s extremely simple filmmaking, but very effective. Teshigahara does not over complicate the beauty of Gaudí’s work by burdening you with context. He just finds the best way to display in cinematically and let’s the camera do the rest.