|
|
|
|
CHIMERAS A Film by Sergio Calderón & Céli Lee 2016 Synopsis This is not the Chimera from Greek mythology, but another type of illusion. Filmmaking, the unreachable. With CHIMERAS, a film I made in collaboration with Céli Lee, we wanted to portrait a set of illusory characters that existed in this artificial supernature, the new world. Like the remains of extinct animals at the Natural History Museum, these Chimeras, these relics, belong to a parallel natural history. But they can only be watched from afar, on the big screen. Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, all the great filmmakers are gone; there aren’t cinemas anymore, at least not “those cinemas,” the film library is a museum now, cinema no longer belongs to this type of filmmaking, the camera is in other hands. But there is still longing for filmmaking, to experiment with the medium, for trial and error, for working with what is available, and what was available—at the time when the film was made—opening up to a different type of filmmaking, perhaps more poetic in nature, more about mood. Adding an element of theatricality to the experience of cinema, a live experience, with live music in this case, not exactly music, but improvised sound, the imaginary sounds of those imaginary Chimeras. CHIMERAS was first shown live in Beijing, China on 15th April 2016. 8 January 2026 Credits Written, Directed and Produced by Sergio Calderón & Céli Lee Original Music by MU Film Edited by Sergio Calderón Art Direction by Sergio Calderón & Céli Lee RUNNING TIME: 42 minutes Sales / Press |
|
|
|
|