The Cuban cinematographer Enrique Pineda Barnet went bankrupt on the month of this March 12th at the age of 87 years.
Director, Guionista, Writer and Great Communicator, Pineda Barnet Transcendent with Movies Like La Bella del Alhambra (1989) y Soja Kuba (1963), of the fellow fellow-Guionean junto to the Russian poet Yevgueni Yevtushenko.
National Award from China in 2006 by the Department of Education, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture at the Cubano Institute of Art and the Cinematographic Industry (ICAIC), Pineda Barnet has made a career extension as a columnist, actor and director of documentaries and fiction largometrajes.
In 2016, the director received the Coral de Honor during the 38th edition of the Internacional Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, and reconstituted a toda su filmography that included the importance of the tintulos entre largometrajes and cortos de ficción, as como documentals, entre los que distaca Giselle, the only ballet film made in Latin America and considered as one of the most watched ballets in the world of ballet.
Born in La Habana on October 28, 1933, Pineda Barnet demonstrated talent for various artistic disciplines from the very beginning. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the important National Literature Prize Alfonso Hernández Catá (1953) with the book of They are counting for the sake of a suicide.
Creator inquires and possesses a curiosity, dedicates himself to exploring various artistic manifestations of my youth, incursions in theatrical performance, dance, ballet, poetry and narrative, in addition to designing a work of merit.
Founder of the Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo, created in 1950 by a group of young professors and students, with the proposal to create an institution that would help divulge the cult music, Pineda Barnet entered into contact with intellectuals and vanguard artists.
By the way, he is a member of the group of Teatro Estudio, giving his first steps in the dramaturgy and the direction of the stage play that shows the value for his career as a filmmaker. Como-actor, protagonist of the work Lila la mariposa, by Rolando Ferrer, with the Company Las máscaras. I work El Juicio de la Quimbumbia received mention in the premium Casa de las Américas 1960.
It is also being communicated to media outlets over the past 50 years, including those that Pineda Barnet works on radio and television, conducting various programs and programs. His work as a publisher by awards merits and reconciliations that promote his experience and consolidate techniques that, together with the theater, contribute to the fluidity of his cinematographic images.
The 1962 finals are incorporated into ICAIC, unfolding its passion for cinema in heterogeneous fiction and documentary works of various trades. With the direction of Giselle, a film that was trained in 1964, Pineda Barnet intended, in his own words, “to live for the future the creation of Alicia Alonso and her group in Giselle”, referring to the cinematographic technique used in the drawing of the dance.
This is the date of his collaboration with co-guionista in the film Mijail Kalatazov Soy Cuba, a joy of cinematography for his photography and his impressive sequences, which include the film of a poetic atmosphere that can be more than pretending to be fooled and convicted of a rarity of one genius in the movie.
Beskou together with Santiago Álvarez and Nicolás Guillen Landrián as one of the experimental documentary filmmakers of Iceland,’n Pineda Barnet is reconciled as one of the pioneers of art video in Cuba. In this line of reference to his visual experiment titled Cosmorama, a series of visual poems made in collaboration with the plastic artist Sandú Darié that innovates in the technique of montage and in the fusion of the images of the cinematic artist with an original sonorous band.
The originality of the montage and the sonorous bands are patented in other types of experiments, such as Juventud R-2 (1968), MS (Mejor Servicio) and El Ñame, both from 1970. In addition to the formal innovations, these are results a sense of humor and satire, directing and criticizing aspects of Cuban reality.
Without renouncing the experimentation in cinematic language, Pineda Barnet made films that compromised the nation’s revolutionary history, tales such as Mella and Aquella. Peru sin duda es La Bella del Alhambra la película que le valio elonocociento unanime de critique y public.
Inspired by the novel Canción de Rachel, by the Cuban writer Miguel Barnet, the film starring the agitada vida de Rachel, a chorus that anhela converts in star and alcanza the fama in the renowned theater Alhambra de La Habana de los años 20.
Combining elements of melodrama and musical, the pelicula constitutes a homage to the tradition of vernal theater and Cuban music. His excellent artistic direction and that of actors, as well as his representation of Cubania, he chose a round of taquila, with millions of spectators in two weeks. By La Bella del Alhambra, Pineda Barnet thanks the Goya Award from the Academy of Arts and Cinematography of Spain in 1990.
Universities of Puerto Rico, Spain, United States and other countries of America consider him a professor of important courses of direction, acting and dramaturgy. Share his film work with the professor of the International School of Cinema and Television of San Antonio de los Baños. The New York City Habana Film Festival in 2010 hosted a film and Cuban playwright for his work.
“Because I’ve used reason, I’ve been thinking of myself as thinking about all my preferences and also about all the things I do not like. “Five years ago I knew perfectly well that I did not want to be a sportsman, not a politician, not a mathematician, and I did not want to be an artist, so it was very clear, even though I did not know the art frame I had to dedicate”, declares in an interview conducted in 2015 by Ibermedia digital.
“Yo no me caso con ninguna sola idea, no me method en jaulas, no me method en cajas, no me method en moldes. I think that the alternative is possible and very necessary, I believe that all the trends always have rich, interesting and constructive possibilities ”manifested one of the most solid filmmakers in Cuban cinematography.
When the Knight receives the Order of the Arts and Letters ”(Cavalry of the Order of Arts and Letters) express, says the web of Cine de La Habana Festival: “In the sun’s infancy tener, for me only, a planet, an asteroid where to cultivate always a rose. But life will not allow me to be this little principle. Adult, not able to book battles of capes and spades. Ahora de adulto, muy adulto, casi tarde, El Gobierno francés me otorga esta emblematic condition that agradezco y prometo cumplir, Art Knight, aesthetics and ethics to launch the flecha al horizononte. ”