A video essay, by Libertad Gills, dedicated entirely to the sense of collectivity present in Uchôa’s films and in particular, in a specific scene in his most recent film, Sete anos em Maio (2019).
This is the record of a cinephilia that resists, that remains and reinvents itself. Within the chaos, the light of the cinema continues to shine on us.
“Choose the precise framing for each scene”, with this premise the Italian-American filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi concentrates the effort of his documentary cinematographic work...
If Diaz’s cinema can help us to understand our present and our past, it also proposes provocative solutions for the question of how to reconcile with the atrocities of these temporal factions.
Northern Ireland in 2020 is at a turning point, albeit a prolonged one, and quite against its will. Politics in the region, ever a fragile topic, has been defined of late by the Brexit quagmire.
