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Cine and Sculpture: “Le sculpteur express”

Sunday October 30th, 2022Sunday October 30th, 2022

A sculptor, with the collaboration of his assistant, sculpts with skill and speed different faces in a mass of clay.
A unique and important filmmaker. This is one of over 200 magical works by this very inventive and original artist. De Chomon was not a plagiarist of the great Melies, he was influenced by that original filmmaker and went in many new directions with his films. Among his talents were greater sophistication in situations and narrative, the use of outdoor locations, and more freedom with his camera.

Segundo Victor Aurelio de Chomón y Ruiz (Terol, 1871 - Paris, 1929) was a photographer, inventor of cinematographic special effects, cameraman, painter, producer, screenwriter and film director. He was one of the most prominent pioneers of the first thirty years of 20th century European cinema. He worked in Barcelona, Paris and Turin. He was hired by the world's leading production companies: Pathé Frères and Itala Films. He was a specialist in film trickery, a pioneer in hand-colored films and the invention of "travelling".

Original title: Pablo Gargallo. The luminous sculpture.
Production, direction and editing: a documentary by Emilio Casanova
Realization: Emilio Casanova, Aragón TV and with the collaboration of Zaragoza City Council. Duration: 60 min.
Critic:
The documentary aims to immerse the viewer in the world of this artist from Maella, in the phases of development and in the creative principles that guided his great sculptural work. Lasting one hour, it gathers a wide sample of the sculptor's sculptural work (almost a hundred works), not only the extensive collection housed in the Pablo Gargallo Museum in Zaragoza, but also from other museums and collectors around the world.
It shows the sculptor's evolution from his beginnings, going through the different stages he went through (with his problems, approaches and processes), until he became a reference in universal contemporary sculpture. In its content, you will not only be able to appreciate his sculptures, drawings, sketches and cardboards, but also show us his professional career through the opinion of people who knew him and who have worked around his works , such as his grandson, Jean Anguera; the sculptor and sculptor Martín Chirino and Blanca Muñoz; the photographer Rafael Navarro, and Rafael Ordóñez Fernández, who was head of the Department of Culture at the Zaragoza City Council. The soundtrack of the video is by Joaquín Pardinilla.

The documentary aims to immerse the viewer in the world of this artist from Maella, in the phases of development and in the creative principles that guided his great sculptural work. Lasting one hour, it gathers a wide sample of the sculptor's sculptural work (almost a hundred works), not only the extensive collection housed in the Pablo Gargallo Museum in Zaragoza, but also from other museums and collectors around the world.
It shows the sculptor's evolution from his beginnings, going through the different stages he went through (with his problems, approaches and processes), until he became a reference in universal contemporary sculpture. In its content, you will not only be able to appreciate his sculptures, drawings, sketches and cardboards, but also show us his professional career through the opinion of people who knew him and who have worked around his works , such as his grandson, Jean Anguera; the sculptor and sculptor Martín Chirino and Blanca Muñoz; the photographer Rafael Navarro, and Rafael Ordóñez Fernández, who was head of the Department of Culture at the Zaragoza City Council. The soundtrack of the video is by Joaquín Pardinilla.

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