Gallery: Kin Coedel in Tibet.
People complaining about Roald Dahl being edited for sensitivity, nobody anywhere noting that Dahl revised his own work more than once – the one that comes to mind is the 1973 revision of Wonka that takes out the previous statement that the Oompa Loompas were Africans who Wonka had smuggled off the continent in crates. This reflects the changes he made to his own book when he wrote the screenplay for the 1971 Gene Wilder film, following the NAACP bringing pressure to bear on that part of the concept. Dahl was fine with revision and only occasionally got the arseache with adaptation – and had a heavy hand when adapting others – and liked money.
Notes on the film ELPIS:
Elpis marks a new path in the filmmaking trajectory of Rouzbeh Rashidi. Almost completely erased: people, bodies, figures – which is surprising, coming from an artist who has previously invested so much creative energy into the visualisation of human presence and performance. Now, there is mostly landscape, often held by a static camera for a long time; landscape warped and tunnelled – an effect achieved, not by digital manipulation, but optically, via the extensive use of (as the filmmaker tells us) various XIX century “photographic portrait objective lenses”. The future of cinema calls to us from the past …