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The strengths and possibilities of cinematic language were heavy on Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s mind as he sat down for a keynote ‘screen talk’ at the London Film Festival on Sunday afternoon.
The director is in London to screen his latest film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. The keynote opened with Iñárritu offering a survey of his career, during which he highlighted the importance of rhythm and sound in how he crafts the visual grammar in his stories.
“Rhythm is god. I think that there is nothing that is without rhythm that can survive,” he said. “The rhythm of the blocking of a scene. The silence between the lines. That frequency is music in a way. It exists in every art expression. I think that’s the key to transmitting something that is profound.”
Moving onto the importance of sound in artmaking, Iñárritu — a former radio DJ — added that he believes he has a “better ear than eye,” and he often uses music to move through a film’s narrative.
“I love much more music than films, and I think I see a film much more when I hear it,” he said. “Cinema is an audiovisual medium. That’s why audio is first. Audio is maybe 60% of the experience, I think. Even when films were silent, there were sometimes small effects, and even silence is sound. It’s an interpretation of sound. I think sound can really be an incredible part of the story and it can add things.”
Later during the lengthy keynote, Iñárritu gave some specific insights into the production of his films, including the multi-academy award-winning Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), starring Michael Keaton and Emma Stone.
Iñárritu said it took him two years to find funding for the film, and he was forced to finish production in 19 days due to
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