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MUTA 2018: CORTOMETRAJES ARGENTINOS

Por Pablo Gamba

Cuatro cortometrajes argentinos recientes forman parte de MUTA, además de los largometrajes La película infinita de Leandro Listorti y El silencio es un cuerpo que cae de Agustina Comedi, ya comentados en Desistfilm, y el corto Come Out (1971) de Narcisa Hirsch, que figura en una sección dedicada a la muestra Ismo, Ismo, Ismo.

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FRONTERA SUR 2018: LA VIDA SUSPENDIDA DE HARLEY PROSPER DE JUAN MANUEL SEPÚLVEDA

Por Mónica Delgado

En la reciente segunda edición del 2° Frontera Sur Festival Internacional de Cine de No Ficción, que se realiza en Concepción, Chile, se dedicó un foco a la obra del cineasta mexicano Juan Manuel Sepúlveda. Se pudo ver en panorama seis de sus trabajos, entre ellos Lecciones para una guerra (2011) y La Balada de Oppenheimer Park (2016).

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Críticas

GIJÓN 2018: FILMS DE JOSEPHINE DECKER, JOEL POTRYKUS Y ED LILLY

Por David S. Blanco

Rota. Desasosegante. Claustrofobia. Son solo algunos de los adjetivos que aparecen por mi mente para definir la divergente apuesta formal de una directora que toma el delirio y la enfermedad de su heroína central, para articular el lenguaje narrativo que vemos en pantalla. Noventa minutos de planos cortos, desubicados, con enfoques dudosos, con borrones en el frame, que apuestan por el feísmo y el anti raccord, todo al servicio de la percepción de una chica con una enfermedad mental.

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Críticas

GIJÓN 2018: THE FAVOURITE DE YORGOS LANTHIMOS

Por David S. Blanco

Si algo sorprende dentro de la diversa programación de la 56 edición del Festival de Cine de Gijón es la descarada apuesta por consagrados directores europeos, y qué mejor forma de abrir la contienda que con uno de los más polémicos y estimulantes, el griego Yorgos Lanthimos. 

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Q&A

DENNIS COOPER & ZAC FARLEY: “LANGUAGE, AND HOW IT’S USED, IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN PERMANENT GREEN LIGHT”

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Almost an underground legend by own merit, Dennis Cooper is not only celebrated today for his outstanding novels like Closer, Frisk and The Sluts, but also as a culture vigilante, famous for his ten-year blog of writings, which was temporarily deleted by Google in 2016. In his second venture with filmmaking, Cooper joins talented visual artist and long time friend Zac Farley for their second film Permanent Green Light, a raw yet poetic beautiful view on alienation and adolescence. We found Dennis and Zac online for an interview, in which we discussed their collaboration and everything about their latest films. 

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Film Festival Reports

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL 2018: CHOOKA, BY FARAZ & PARASTOO ANOUSHAHPOUR AND RYAN FERKO

By Ivonne Sheen

In Susan Sontag’s famous book, On Photography, she argues that we are living in Plato’s cave made out of reproducible images, questioning about our visual imaginaries, which are not only fed by concrete experience, but also by reproduced images. This argument can be read in Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko’s refined film Chooka (2018), which was part of the Media City Film Festival’s International Competition. 

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Main Articles

LOUISE BROOKS BY RICHARD LEACOCK

By Claudia Siefen

“She liked to talk and talked a lot”

Richard Leacock shot the multi-part interview film A Conversation with Louise Brooks in March 1974 in Rochester for the german TV station “Norddeutscher Rundfunk“, which was broadcasted at the time together with Pandora’s Box and mainly contained Brooks’ memories of G. W. Pabst. It is one of a total of three Brooks interview films and, according to Brooks’ own statement, it was the one that gave her the greatest pleasure.

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