Goya, May 3rd
Filming "Goya. May 3" is an innovative audiovisual project that makes a cinematographic recreation of Goya's painting "The Executions of May 3" through an 8K digital recording with real digital scenography under the direction of Carlos Saura, also from Aragón. This, with a multidisciplinary team, develop a dramatization as realistic as possible, making use of the latest filming technologies and with a careful artistic direction that pays special attention to styling, costumes, sound setting, etc., in a complex process whose novelty lies in the production, and with which it is sought to achieve an immersive experience of great impact for the visitor.
The project wants to be a tribute to Goya on the 275th anniversary of his birth, while the format aims to initiate a path of investigation between art and technology, with the aim of enriching the visual heritage of the artists with works of mixed technologies. museums and thus contribute to attract the younger public to know their collections. The objective is that the documentary coexists in a museum space with a reproduction of the original canvas, so that the public can see "with their own eyes" how the shooting of May 3 happened from the perspective of Goya recreated by Saura, thus proposing a union between classical authors and current ways of capturing reality.
Goia, 3. mai' linastub 26. novembril koos filmidega 'Rosa Rosae: Hispaania kodusõda' ja 'Kogu ilma kuningas'.
Carlos Saura (b. 1932) was a professional photographer before turning to filmmaking in the mid-fifties. In 1957 he finished studying and got the director diploma. At the same time, he finished his end-of-career short film "La tarde del domingo" (1957). Generally acknowledged as Spain’s leading director of the last four decades, many of his films have won numerous major prizes at international film festivals since the sixties. On January 4th 2022 the director is celebrating his 90th birthday. Carlos Saura is this year’s laureate of PÖFF Lifetime Achievement Award.
Selected: Llanto por un bandido (Weeping for a Bandit, 1964), Le Jardin de las delicias (The Garden of Delights, 1970), Ana y los lobos (Anna and the Wolves, 1973), Dulces horas (Sweet Hours, 1982), Antonieta (1982), Carmen (1983), Ay, Carmela! (1990), Sevillanas (1992), Tango (1998), Goya (Goya in Bordeaux, 1999), Bunuel y la mess del rey Salomon (Bunuel ja kuningas Saalomoni laud, PÖFF 2001), Salomé (2002), Fados (2007, PÖFF 2008), Io, Don Giovanni (Mina, Don Giovanni, PÖFF 2009), Flamenco Flamenco (2010), Jota de Saura (2016), El rey de todo el mundo (The King of All the World 2021)