Sebastian De Caro They are those types of artists that are difficult to label, not only because of the multiplicity of their activities, but also because they reach with the same effectiveness the most diverse audiences, who would never inhabit the same space. Many will remember them for their indelible passage through “Roller coaster”others for being the director of the Netflix movie “Marriage” and the most disinterested in his career, for having been a panelist for “Big Brother”work of which he claims to be “proud”, as much as when he drives from Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., his program “A happy world” by Radio Yes. As a self-fulfilling prophecy, he defines himself as “very fat for snobs and very elitist for what is popular” and that is that whoever co-stars with Gastón Pauls in the now cult strip “All against Juan”back in the distant 2008, with the same sophisticated and intellectual language that analyzes why so-and-so used the spontaneous nomination, discusses cinema in a podcast with Axel Kuschevatzky or edits a book of poems under the title “A Shot in an Egg”. The starting point of the interview with NOTICIAS was the launch of his new book “The most beautiful lie”where he takes up characters from the past to make a voracious criticism of technology and its consequences.
News: In his new fictional book “The most beautiful lie”, you can see the love hate relationship he has with technology.
Sebastian De Caro: Nothing about love, just hate. I hate technology. I understand that there are a lot of benefits that have to do with connectivity, but I see that the damages are being greater. At the level of psychological disorders, anxieties and anxieties that arise from hyperconnectivity. I highlight the danger of the idea of splitting ourselves. Who we appear to be, what idealized image we build of ourselves, and who we really are. If that was already traumatic in analog life, the notion of how they see me and how I want to see myself and who I am, today’s connectivity enhanced it a thousandfold. I think we are not realizing where this madness is going.
News: The protagonist of his book Remo Ingrao suffers from what he is talking about.
From Caro: I think we are all suffering from it. And it is not the link that we have with the telephone as a device, because one also works with the cell phone, but it directly attacks personal ties, the real ones. Beyond the fact that over time, joint, postural, vision, etc. problems will begin. The priority is to understand how much it affects real ties that we are looking outside all the time. and see what people who we don’t know who they are say about us, about those in front of us and what they do to our daily life.
News: How much of you is there in the character of Remo Ingrao?
From Caro: In all the characters there is something of mine. An author is never just a character. He is the hero, he is the villain, he is the secondary one. It is inevitable to dump something from one’s past into each of the beings that build history.
News: Is publishing books your ground wire, between radio and cinema?
From Caro: It depends on the need and my interest. There are books that are requested of me, like the one I wrote about “The neon and gum machine” which is about 80s cinema, proposed by the director of the collection, Leonardo D’Esposito; and others because they come naturally to me. I also don’t have the pressure to sell like a best-selling writer.
News: For everyone, becoming a film director invalidates everything else. However, you directed for Netflix and continue to do your regular jobs.
From Caro: My first film was “Rockabilly”, written and directed by me in 2000 and made in twelve days. “Matrimillas” was just four weeks of filming and everything was available, Hollywood level. It’s all a bit disconcerting, so I don’t want to delve into it because maybe it would paralyze me and I wouldn’t know how to continue. How much of my radio program has to do with my books and my books with “Matrimillas”, I don’t know, but I do know that I went with the same joy and passion to direct Lopilato and Minujín as I do on the radio every day. . So I don’t see why I should stop doing the things I’ve always done, if they took me to what I always dreamed of.
News: Is directing a film from a multinational production company achieving the top?
From Caro: My dream would be to win an Oscar. I do not deny it. But what is a top. A tip can be to go to the doctor if I have to go and I don’t want to. Getting on a plane if I have a phobia or calling a friend and having that coffee we owe each other. Eating healthy is a top. I don’t want to deny the dreams, of course I celebrated that for some producers I was the right person to direct Lopilato and Minujín in their film. But when it was over, I looked at my partner, my friends, my family and returned to everyday life. And I also celebrate returning to that everyday life otherwise I would go crazy, self-centered and dangerous.
News: Speaking of fiction, the lack of series on Argentine television was once again highlighted.
From Caro: I disagree. In Argentina there is a lot of fiction, but what there is is a reformulation of where that fiction goes. Maybe television is no longer that safe place, but the platforms are. Netflix, Amazon and Star Plus are making a lot of Argentine fiction. There are many documentaries and there are more and more docuseries about historical figures. What happens is that connectivity makes the way of consumption different. Fiction no longer has the schedule for open channels and prime time has fallen into disuse. Now you see what you want when you want.
News: What is radio for you?
From Caro: For me the radio is a space for direct communication with another person. I’ve been doing radio for 20 years now and it’s a place I come to happy, eager.
News: It touches many areas of art, even the opposite like football. To understand his mind, which death did he suffer more, Maradona’s or Agnès Varda’s?
From Caro: The deaths of those who were generous with their tasks are the ones that hurt the most. Those who leave a valuable legacy, those who were representative of a specific time.
News: Do you regret any job in particular?
From Caro: I don’t regret any work I did. And when the result was not as expected, there was always something valuable that remained, a person or an anecdote that was good to experience.
