Violence
Submission by Felipe Romero Beltrán and Pablo Muñoz Pérez Words by Nastasia Khmelnitski
Felipe Romero and Pablo Muñoz are visual creators and photographers based in Madrid, who collaborated on the extensive project Violence. We’re happy to present the first short film from the series, Issue #1, on WÜL.
The project unfolds by presenting an angle on pure violence through the senses of visual and audio perception. The viewer is taken to the edge to assure he understands the implications of violence affecting our society today. The concept is brought forward through a metaphorical reproduction with images of pills and glue. Further, the development penetrates the registers through the choreographed body movements, facial expressions, and stares intensified with black and white imagery, the pace of the video, and sound engineering.
Film Directed by Felipe Romero Beltrán and Pablo Muñoz Pérez Sound Design Pablo Cuerno and Marcelo Maderuelo Voice Joaquín Pinedo Words Paranoid London - Eating Glue Cast Coco Drytears, Alex Pintor, Vincent Mcloud and Javier Bailo
Referencing Paranoid London’s track Eating Glue, the team films a visual experience to drive attention and seek a solution to the problem of violence. We speak with Felipe and Pablo about the film. Read on the thoughts of the team about the project.
“And we walk, wet And we move west I can feel it in my bones”
— Paranoid London
‘Violence is a visual attempt recorded in the suburbs of Madrid. The film is an aesthetic plea to the tension on violence in the big cities’
The Project
December 13, 2018. Madrid central hospital released a report. A middle aged man is hospitalized for intoxication. The analysis indicates that he has consumed the equivalent of two liters of glue.
Violence is a visual attempt recorded in the suburbs of Madrid. The film is an aesthetic plea to the tension on violence in the big cities. The body, the house, the friendship and the food will be topics of the next issues that will be developed around the contemporary implications of youth culture in Europe.
Violence in the big cities
Tensions on violence in Europe have changed over the last decade. It is clear that the big cities keep an apparent pacification that allows a social balance, however, the seams of society are seen in the daily life of our generation. We pretend to approach this tension from the photographic image. The artwork is shot with people who belong to our context. We decided that the project would be a long term one (5 months) because we were working on similar pieces at the same time furthermore, everything we produced enhances the project and the concept of Violence.
‘The violent side of modern society is an idea that had obsessed us for some time. One day we were having a drink with one of the guys in the video, and we heard Eating Glue by Paranoid London’
The violent side of modern society is an idea that had obsessed us for some time. One day we were having a drink with one of the guys in the video, and we heard Eating Glue by Paranoid London. At first, we were not very aware of the meaning of the song, but when we found the lyrics a few days later, we saw a strong connection with the themes we wanted to address. The glue was a perfect metaphor for the project, not only because of the words by Paranoid London but also because the atmosphere of the song is related to the quest we had for the project.
The upcoming issues
Madrid is a city with multiple shapes, an organic place that generates in us concerns about the society that can be translated into photographic images. Currently, we are working on a similar issue, portraying the institutionalized systems of violence.
