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Film Festival Reports

OBERHAUSEN FILM FESTIVAL 2019: A REPORT

By Vladimir Seput

The International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen celebrated its 65th edition this year in a week starting with Labour Day, 1st of May. Sixty-five years is a long time and its advanced age might show some signs of wear but the festival nevertheless seems to be in a rather good condition to continue for much longer. It again featured hundreds of new shorts, (re)discovered some old ones, brought plenty of filmmakers to Oberhausen (and some classics such as Alexander Sokurov), and dedicated time to invite curators and researchers to work on the new edition of its illustrious Theme.

2019.05.14

Críticas

IMAGES FESTIVAL 2019: SITTING ON A MAN Y SPECIALISED TECHNIQUE DE ONYEKA IGWE

Por Pablo Gamba

Sitting on a Man (2018) y Specialised Technique (2018) son piezas de la artista y cineasta británica Onyeka Igwe. Las dos tienen en común el tema de la danza y la apropiación de imágenes de África provenientes de los archivos del Imperio Británico. Integran, junto con Her Name in My Mouth (2017), el tríptico No dance, no Parlaver.

2019.04.29

Film Festival Reports

IMAGES FESTIVAL 2019: SERPENT RAIN BY DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA AND ARJUNA NEUMAN

Serpent rain (2016) is a film product of the collaboration of the director Arjuna Neuman and the philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva. The initial idea of ??the film, according to the filmmakers, comes up from the finding that there was a Norwegian slave ship called Fredensborg.

2019.04.29

Críticas

IMAGES FESTIVAL 2019: SERPENT RAIN DE DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA Y ARJUNA NEUMAN

Serpent rain (2016) es una película producto de la colaboración de la realizadora Arjuna Neuman and la filósofa Denise Ferreira da Silva. La idea inicial del filme, según las realizadoras, parte del hallazgo de que existió un barco noruego de esclavos llamado Fredensborg.

2019.04.29

Q&A

INTERVIEW: CHLOÉ GALIBERT-LAÎNÉ

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

The video essay format is one of the most intriguing and dynamic forms of film criticism today. This unique way of establishing links and dialogues with different films or bodies of work, allows the viewer a further analysis and discovery, something that goes beyond the written text or other forms of criticism,

2019.04.23

BAFICI

BAFICI 2019: CLASE MAGISTRAL DE FRIEDL VOM GRÖLLER

Por Pablo Gamba

Friedl vom Gröller, fotógrafa y cineasta experimental austríaca, nacida en Londres en 1946, fue la invitada más importante del 21° Bafici. El festival programó una selección de sus películas y ella dio una clase magistral en la Universidad del Cine, en la que presentó una muestra de sus filmes y fotos.

2019.04.21

Film Festival Reports

IMAGES FESTIVAL 2019: TWO FILMS BY CHRISTOPHER HARRIS

By Ivonne Sheen

Christopher Harris’ films still/here (2001) and A Willing Suspension of Disbelief + Photography and Fetish (2014) unfold the cinematic experience in its experimental practice and the documentary narrative as a possible anthropological hybrid device for profound ethical questions through a self-reflected audiovisual experience.

2019.04.20

Film Festival Reports

IMAGES FESTIVAL 2019: SMUDGE SERIES BY EVE-LAURYN LAFOUNTAIN & LA CABEZA MATÓ A TODOS BY BEATRIZ SANTIAGO MUÑOZ

By Ivonne Sheen

Images Festival’s Interior Mythologies program focuses in indigenous ancestral ritualistic practices which remain alive through the wisdom of people, talking about the mystique and forces of natural resources. Smudge series (2013) by Eve-Lauryn LaFountain and La cabeza mató a todos (2014) by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, both follow the process of ritualistic acts within non-fictional sceneries and characters.

2019.04.20

Críticas

IMAGES FESTIVAL 2019: I SIGNED THE PETITION DE MAHDI FLEIFEL

Por Pablo Gamba

I Signed the Petition (Reino Unido-Alemania-Suiza, 2018), premiado como mejor cortometraje documental en el IDFA, fue realizado por Mahdi Fleifel, un palestino que nació en Dubái, se crió en un campo de refugiados de Líbano, estudió cine en Londres y tiene la nacionalidad danesa. En 2016 ganó el Oso de Plata al mejor corto en la Berlinale por A Man Returned y al año siguiente compitió en Cannes con otro corto, A Drowning Man.

2019.04.20

Main Articles

A FIRE IN MY BELLY: THE FILMS OF DAVID WOJNAROWICZ

By Vladimir Seput

-“So here I am, alone on this earth, with no brother, neighbour, or friend, and no company but my own. The most sociable and loving of human beings has by common consent been banished by the rest of society” laments Jean-Jacques Rousseau at the beginning of the first walk in his unfinished book Reveries of the Solitary Walker (here in Russell Goulbourne’s translation).

2019.04.16