Magdalena Tsanis
Madrid, Feb 23 (EFE) .- An old man said to have never loved because they never learned to dance.; one child murderer who taught the hard way that love should hurt; or a happy woman because even in the worst days of famine gets a grain of rice. They are the voices of macrodocumental of Yann Arthus-Bertrand “Human”.
The photographer and filmmaker, 70, took more than three decades touring the world by helicopter and doing aerial photography for magazines like National Geographic or Paris Match, before getting into this ambitious project which has, together with his team, more than 2,000 interviews in 60 countries.
“He photographed deforestation, ecological disasters, melting poles .. . I wanted to come down to earth and hear people speaking from the heart, go to the essential, “he explains in an interview with Efe also the author of” Home “, another documentary from the air showing the state of the planet.
throughout more than three hours, “Human”, which was presented today in Spain, combines these sweeps from heaven-from the slums of Port au Prince to the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and mines Madagascar to pakistaní- desert with testimonies in the foreground and set against a black background on all that unites the human race: happiness, love, violence, poverty, death
“I wanted. try to understand why we make war, why homophobia exists, why people leave their country to an uncertain future, “says Arthus-Bertrand. “It’s an activist film, to reflect on what prevents us to live. And a film about the meaning of life. There are people who are looking and not another.”
Beatrice, Rwanda, tells how escaped alive Tutsi extermination running between bodies in the middle of a shootout.
Youssef, a Syrian child, says not fear death even if his throat cut and bleed, because that would join his father deceased
Argus, Brazil, is clear what is living.. “life is like carrying a message from the boy who went to the old man you’ll have to try that this message is not lost on the way “he says, while another compatriot, Jorge, looks impossible to love less than three women at once.
” I should not say it, but it’s an incredible movie, “says the director, who has just present “Human” in a talk TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) in Vancouver (Canada). “People were crying, not wanting to leave,” he says.
Funded under the patronage of GoodPlanet and Bettencourt Schueller foundation, in partnership with Google, “Human” premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival and has traveled since then dozens of festivals, but may also be open on Youtube, an extended version of more than four hours.
after Madrid, the next stop is Zagreb, and then Geneva, Prague, Oslo South Korea, Bolivia, Ethiopia and humanitarian UN summit in Turkey in May.
the most difficult, after two years of filming, admits Arthus-Bertrand has been mounting that it has taken him a year. “With this material could make 50 different movies,” says the filmmaker, who is already preparing a new similar project, “Women”, focused only on women.
“The numbers impact,” he says. “95% of the properties in the world are men and women in prisons are only 6%. That says something. Not to mention that women face in the world.”
When Arthus-Bertrand began filming “human”, a question will always accompany: what makes us human
Four years later, he reflects: “what happens on the other side of the world is also . our responsibility, and that has to be seen, you have to feel Those people are mirrors of us. the soldier who kills the man who rapes, while that person able to forgive and understand that love makes us better people. ” . EFE
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