Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi on LA BOLA NEGRA 35mm
by Murphy Popcorn 🎪: Javier Calvo
Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi wanted 35mm because art is what gets handed down. Their case: it's how we come to see who we were, what we fear, what we love, what happened to us. Their quote puts it plainly: all your memories will disappear when you die, but objects will stay. A line spelling that out was written and then cut for being too explicit. That physicality is why the film sits in La Lata as an object, and they bring up Anir's line about all the images disappearing. Objects are how later generations find out what the world was like, they say. The point is reading the past so it isn't repeated, and they hope it sends people toward Spanish culture, Federico Garcia Lorca, and the queer stories every country has plenty of.
Transcript (en)
Absolutely. In fact, there was a line that was exactly that in the movie and we erased it because we didn't want to make it too explicit. But yeah, it's absolutely about that, about how art is the thing that we inherit and make like make us understand who we were and what we fear, what we love, what happened to us. And that's why we made the movie 35mm. There's a physicality in art that we needed to convey. The movie exists in La Lata. As a physical object. So that is important for us because... How is that line from Anir, no? All the images will disappear. All the images will disappear. Yeah. You know objects. We remain. Anything that happens, like we, someone. All your memories will disappear when you die, but objects will stay. And that's the only way that the future generation, they know about how the world was. And also, I think this movie is about that, trying to understand the past in order to not repeat what happened. And hopefully people is connecting with that idea and trying to learn more about Spanish culture, about Federico Garcia Lorca, and about queer stories that every country has a lot of them.
