{"id":12600,"date":"2024-02-20T17:19:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/?p=12600"},"modified":"2024-02-20T17:19:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:19:58","slug":"pain-and-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/2024\/02\/pain-and-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabricating Almod\u00f3var: Pain &amp; Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"169 Seconds: Fabricating Almod\u00f3var: Pain &amp; Glory\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/914832128?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The films of Pedro Almod\u00f3var are full of references to the creative process itself through a series of characters that inhabit different aspects of his work as an artist. This is particularly relevant in his trilogy of films\u2014<em>Law of Desire<\/em> (1987), <em>Bad Education<\/em>(2004), and <em>Pain and Glory<\/em> (2019)\u2014which directly address the relationship between a filmmaker&#8217;s creative crisis, his emotional state, and the various fluctuations in his sexual satisfaction, approached from an eminently queer perspective. In numerous ways, Almod\u00f3var molds different screen <em>alter egos <\/em>that are diverse versions of his own creative persona, crafted through a variety of expressive, aesthetic and narrative strategies.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>This work explores the inseparable link between the processes of creation and the queer emotional fabric that anchors the subversive axis of Almod\u00f3var&#8217;s characters. It primarily focuses on his later effort, <em>Pain &amp; Glory<\/em>, which chronicles the physical and mental struggles of an aging filmmaker and establishes a dialogue with <em>Law of Desire<\/em> (1987) and <em>Bad Education<\/em> (2004) to account for the evolving conceptualization of authorship at play in Almod\u00f3var\u2019s oeuvre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video essay combines excerpts from the three films, in combination with Alberto Iglesias\u2019 soundtrack for <em>Pain &amp; Glory<\/em>. In addition, I utilize the song \u201cD\u00e9jame de recordar\u201d, included in the soundtrack of <em>Law of Desire<\/em>\u2014a song about a true love that will not return, yet it is indelibly remembered\u2014to illustrate the power of remembering both as a creative mechanism and an emotional safeguard to cope with the undesirable elements of the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Almod\u00f3var\u2019s production company is called \u201cEl Deseo\u201d\u2014that is, Desire.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reportedly, Almod\u00f3var meticulously recreated his own home in <em>Pain &amp; Glory<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Films<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><em>Law of Desire<\/em> (1987)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Bad Education<\/em> (2004)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Pain &amp; Glory <\/em>(2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>169 SECONDS. This audiovisual essay approaches the intimate link between artistic invention and queer emotion in Pedro Almod&oacute;var&rsquo;s films <em>Law of Desire<\/em> (1987), <em>Bad Education<\/em> (2004) and <em>Pain &amp; Glory <\/em>(2019). It combines visual and music excerpts from these three films to illustrate the dual role of memory as a creative tool and emotional support in navigating the undesirable present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":12601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,227],"tags":[443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12604,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions\/12604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}