Set of documents portraies age of gold of tango and its discovery for the young

Carlos Helí de Almeida, JB Online

RIVER - In 2005, the musical producer Argentine Gustavo Santaolalla, winner of the Oscar of Sonorous Track for the secret of Brokeback Mountain and Babel, congregated some of the best musicians, composers and interpreters of tango for the writing of a COMPACT DISC and the accomplishment of a series of shows.
The task fit to the director Miguel Kohan to register this meeting in Coffee of the teachers, set of documents that arrives at the cinemas at the moment where Argentine youth redescobre the rhythm as cultural symbol. Co-produced for the Videofilmes Brazilian, the long one is one of the estréias of the holiday of Christmas in the Carioca circuit.

- Tango never died, badly was only interpreted - Miguel Kohan to the Periodical of Brazil counts cineasta, for telephone, of Buenos Aires.

Periodical of Brazil: Its first film is a set of documents for the TV on the works in a salt mine. How it entered for a project on tango?

- Already it had worked with the Gustavo (Santaolalla), producer of the project, before. I directed one videoclipe for one of musics of it. When I started to edit great Salt mine, I showed for it, that it liked very. When the Gustavo decided to register the writing of the record on tango called, me.

Periodical of Brazil: To be an invited director limited its freedom of action?

- When I entered for the project of the film, Gustavo still was in the phase of writing of the record. The idea was to use the freedom that the set of documents of the one to capture that moment, to transit between the teachers. Comment of what was a phase more than any another thing. I entered exactly for this, to make the set of documents; the Gustavo took care of only of the musical production, did not intervene with the cinematographic decisions.

Periodical of Brazil: Which was the aspect most challenging of the set of documents, logistic or the human being?

- In the truth, all the project was a great challenge. It was the first time in the history of Argentina that all the masters of tango if had congregated for a common project. It was an intense and emotiva experience to be with these artists. They have an only form to transmit music who make, a very particular espontaneidade of the time where they had shone. These masters had worked the entire life if presenting for the public, are artists whom if they had formed in the contact with the auditoriums, not in writing studio. But it was exactly this espontaneidade in the writing that helped to give veracity to the film. He was contagiante for me and the team.

Periodical of Brazil: Personages and songs are not identified in the film, only in the credits. Why this option?

- It did not give to make a didactic set of documents on tango. I remember a phrase of the Michelangelo Antonioni that I only understood in this work: “The films are not for being understood and yes lived deeply”. Coffee of the teachers is the test of this. It is the impression in film of this convivência with them.

Periodical of Brazil: Which its personal relation with tango?

- In years 70, it listened to tango, as a tangueiro, but he was not a fan. I remember a joke that the Caetano Veloso freed in a show the one that I attended here in Buenos Aires, in that decade. It stopped the presentation to inform that tango would go to sing one. The public complained very and then it communicated: “Since it is thus, now I go to sing five”. Obviously that in the second song the people already were adoring what it was singing. At that time, the young did not adhere to the rhythm, because it was a type of music associated with the dictatorship, what it was, evidently, one me the interpretation of the sort.

Periodical of Brazil: Which is the relation of the young of today with tango?

- The times had moved. Coffee of the teachers arrives at the cinemas in a time of revitalização of tango. It is consequence of the economic crisis of 2001, when the Argentine society if opened more for the proper culture. E this phenomenon is not geracional, is general, involves old young and. In the age of the apogee of tango, in years 30 and 40, the people if felt in the Argentine culture, same the immigrants enclosed. Coffee of the teachers testifies this redescoberta.
http://jbonline.terra.com.br/extra/2008/12/23/e231215831.html