lunes, 22 de abril de 2019

Hi Classmates! It's very hard for me to choose only one favorite movie because I love the cinema and there are a lot of movies very important to me. But when I think in particular experience with the cinema I remember the movie "Nowhere" by Gregg Araki. This is a very weird movie, a movie about the wish, about the self-recognition, and the first experiences about the love and death in a hilarious apocalyptic world. 
Dark is the main character in the movie, a young man who doesn't understand his world and suffer because of this. Besides he is the only person who begins to see an extraterrestrial character who kidnaps their friends and nobody seems to care about it. The soundtrack of the movie is amazing with a selection of "shoegazing" rock band like Slowdive or Curve, this movie influenced a lot my musical preference until now. 
I like weird movies like this because more than the stereotypical characters and history, the director can make a sensible junction of a lot of trash songs and images of the pop culture, to speak about the feelings of one generation of people with a lot of uncertainty.


Nowhere, Gregg Araki. (1997)



lunes, 15 de abril de 2019

Bob Dylan Concert.

Hi classmates! My first concert was many years ago, when Bob Dylan cames to Chile. He played his most famous themes like Mr. Tambourine Man and Hurricane in the Arena Santiago. I was at the concert with my friend Leonardo because I won two tickets in a radio competition. We met at the O'Higgins Park subway station and we bought a big bottle of wine. The same day was my first drunkenness and the people from the concert walked away from us. We were very happy dancing and jumping without our t-shirt and hearing the sound of the Dylan armónica.

When the concert finished, with Leonardo we started to walk. While we are walking near to the Persa Bio-Bio we spoke a lot about how Dylan doesn't say anything in all the concert, but we also talked about the beauty of his lyrics. That night we forget a lot of things because of the alcohol, that night we sang.  In the morning I awake in my house with a cactus thorn in my left hand.

In the 2016 Dylan was the first songwriter to win the Nobel prize, in his speech he says: "Our songs are alive in the land of the living".   

 

lunes, 8 de abril de 2019

I want to know a lot of countries! But, I'm very interested in antique forms of theatre. For that reason, I wish to see a traditional performance of Noh Theatre in Japan. In that kind of art, you can see how the performers become a character in a special place on the left side of the scene. They walk slowly above a bridge and they embodied his characters. I know about that because I read a lot... but I never see!  Another reason to go is for the possibility to study and take a class with a master of Noh Theatre, this art has a lot of years and they passed down through generation. 

When I was a child, I had a lot of nightmares with strange creatures like Noh characters. I remember a little funny mask from my brother that calm my fear. Japan has a lot of mythological characters and history and in my childhood, I see many movies of the Studio Ghibli. I can let my fear thanks to those creatures in the animation, like in the Noh Theatre and Ghibli movies the bads are not really bad.


Theatre Noh Stage. 


Forest Spirit. Studio Ghibli. 
Hello!