Situational Tour Location

The location I chose for this situational tour is a little town called ¨La Herradura¨, located in El Salvador, at Central America.

Families from a non-profit organization go to a different town every month to help very poor people by giving them food and sometimes take doctors that will give them free appointments.
During one day at the town, we will be able to see rituals, as well as social situation in the country.


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Is film the “supreme art”?

While I was reading “Integration of the Arts”, one part of this writing called my attention: “In 1961 "The Futurist Cinema," F.T. Marinetti and his revolutionary cohorts declared film to be the supreme art because it embraced all other art forms through the use of (then) new media technology. Only cinema, they claimed, had a "totalizing" effect on human consciousness.”

I agree with what Marinetti said: “…declared the film to be supreme art…” Film does unify all forms of art, but besides that, what I best like about films is that they are a mean of communication and there is a more direct interaction with the audience.

Through a film you are able to do many things, such as transmit messages, show real life stories that help people indentify with one of the characters of the film, show different points of views, etc.

Through art, you can express yourself, but on my opinion (at least for me), it is more difficult to transmit the message I want my audience to get when it comes to drawing or painting, but it is “easier” when it comes to films.

How has the creation of computers changed the way we create art?

Before the invention of computers art was just drawing, painting, singing, etc... No one would ever imagine that an improvement in technology would ever affect art, but it did.
Now, with a computer you are able to create art, you are free to do whatever comes to your mind without being afraid of making a mistake because the machine would allow you to change and improve anything you want.