Albert Serra: “I have never seen a bullfighter looking at a mobile phone”

Film director Albert Serra (Banyoles, 1975) premieres this weekend Afternoons of solitude, the documentary about bullfighting that won the last Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival. People who know that I have already seen the film ask: "but is it for or against bullfighting?" Serra's artistic choice is to portray them as we have never seen them before. With the cameras and microphones so close that the beauty and brutality are magnified. The bull and the bullfighter, two beasts, facing each other in an ancient and deadly ritual, banned in Catalonia since 2011.