Alejandro G. Iñárritu On His Career & Challenging Cinematic Conventions With ‘Bardo’ — London Film Festival
deadline.comThe strengths and possibilities of cinematic language were heavy on Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s mind as he sat down for a keynote ‘screen talk’ at the London Film Festival on Sunday afternoon.
The director is in London to screen his latest film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. The keynote opened with Iñárritu offering a survey of his career, during which he highlighted the importance of rhythm and sound in how he crafts the visual grammar in his stories. “Rhythm is god.
I think that there is nothing that is without rhythm that can survive,” he said. “The rhythm of the blocking of a scene. The silence between the lines.
That frequency is music in a way. It exists in every art expression. I think that’s the key to transmitting something that is profound.” Moving onto the importance of sound in artmaking, Iñárritu — a former radio DJ — added that he believes he has a “better ear than eye,” and he often uses music to move through a film’s narrative. “I love much more music than films, and I think I see a film much more when I hear it,” he said. “Cinema is an audiovisual medium.
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