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The Future will not
be Capitalist by Sasha Pirker is a documentary in which the
cinematography plays the role of an imagetic guide throughout Oscar
Niemeyer's architectural project, the building where was established the
French Communist Party headquarters in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.
Niemeyer's project is explained in this film as a punctual manifestation in
terms of political spacing seen from a symbolical perspective for a
non-capitalist future. The film stills from the different spaces of the
building constitute an attempt of a visual expression of a space designed
not to integrate the common business hierarchy configuration, neither the
exhibition value of a museum, but to constitute the shelter for a political
ideal, however, their freeze frame, pan and tilt shots, allied to the voice
of a historical letter of intent, seem not enough and also a little bit
naive to participate in an effective political change as the title may
advocate.
Despite the attempt to assume a political voice or even a mere wish for the
future, this documentary could work as a descriptive composition of this
architectural piece, that then, had a real political inscription, since its
cinematography achieves to perform a clean lighting and an well composed
framing with clear proportions.
On the other hand, all these images and words can be transformed into a
quite ambiguous discourse - a wish, a statement or a mere irony? -, since
its ending images depict some surveillance cameras, which can be the sign of
a subterranean power that runs along with us without being noticed, with its
cameras, its walls, its barriers integrated in architecture, unconsciously
regulating and controlling the movement of the masses.
11:09:2010 |
di
Rossana Mendes FONSECA