These Essays with the cinema are attempts or conjectures that would like to prolong, through writing, the impact of a vision. The essay is here the framework of an association, a combinatorial attempt, a test, an experiment; that is, a process that transforms the films and takes them beyond themselves. Sometimes, as in every laboratory, at the end of that alchemy a revelation awaits.
With a clear and intelligent prose, which earned him the first prize in the essay category of the National Endowment for the Arts (1998), David Oubiña dialogues with a heterogeneous group of masterful filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Glauber Rocha, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Jacques Tati, Hugo Santiago or Andrei Tarkovski, whose works have managed to elude the impositions of the cinematographic mainstream.
Reading these texts invites both the expert cinephile and the non-specialized reader to approach a different and exciting cinema.