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TIFF 2018. WAVELENGTHS 2018: RAY & LIZ DE RICHARD BILLINGHAM

Por Aldo Padilla

Una mujer arma un rompecabezas, mientras usa un vestido con un patrón que se asemeja a las piezas del juego desperdigado. La imagen pareciera mostrarla tratando de reconstruirse a partir de su personalidad rota y dispersa. En la pared del mismo cuarto hay muchas caretas venecianas que también sirven para acentuar sus múltiples facetas. Los tatuajes de sus enormes brazos representan aves posadas sobre ramas multicolores, parte de una extraña naturaleza que se contrapone a que apenas vemos a la mujer en el exterior, quien se llamada Elizabeth o también Liz.

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Film Festival Reports

TIFF 2018. WAVELENGTHS: ALTIPLANO BY MALENA SZLAM

By Mónica Delgado

It seems like filmmaker and visual artist Malena Szlam enters new territory in Altiplano. Now, the deserts and steppes of Atacama, her object of observation, look almost naked, even clearly tactile, graspable, barely transformed, while in her previous work, the sense of abstraction of those subjects of contemplation, (like the moon in Luna Almanac, his 2013 short film, or the fragments of persons and cities in Chronogram of Inexistent Time of 2008) produced a study on light, its matter and absences. Instead, in Altiplano, the day light encounters other way of being grasped, through the textures and a component which Szlam handles to perfection: the superposition and the flicker.

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Cine latinoamericano

TIFF 2018. WAVELENGTHS: ALTIPLANO DE MALENA SZLAM

Por Mónica Delgado

Pareciera que en Altiplano, la cineasta y artista visual chilena Malena Szlam entrara a un territorio nuevo. Es decir, los desiertos y estepas de Atacama, su objeto de observación, lucen allí desnudos, incluso claramente táctiles, asibles, apenas transformados, mientras que en sus anteriores trabajos, el sentido de abstracción de esos sujetos de contemplación se producía también como parte de un estudio matérico de la luz y sus ausencias (oscuridades).

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Críticas

TIFF 2018. WAVELENGTHS: THE TRIAL DE SERGEI LOZNITSA

Por Aldo Padilla

Ante todo, el montaje declara una idea de intencionalidad: mostrar algo de acuerdo a una finalidad artística o comunicacional. Cuando desde un medio de comunicación se utiliza el termino “montaje”, por lo general hace referencia a un tipo de trampa que busca manipular a un segmento de la sociedad.

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Film Festival Reports

TIFF 2018. WAVELENGTHS: THE TRIAL BY SERGEI LOZNITSA

By Aldo Padilla

Montage declares, before anything, an idea of intentionality, the idea of showing something according to an artistic or communicational intention. When the term “montage” is used in the media, it is generally referred to a trap that seeks to manipulate a segment of society. Governments with a totalitarian tendency are experts in constructing parallel realities, both to reaffirm the loyalty of its followers and to intimidate its opponents. The communicational montages that are built or denounced pretend to hide the root problems of their dubious regimes.

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Film Festival Reports

TIFF 2018. WAVELENGTHS: A RETURN BY JAMES EDMOND, TREES DOWN HERE BY BEN RIVERS

By Alonso Castro

Cinema and poetry can be bonded strongly, but such association doesn’t occur gratuitously, and one can’t expect it to happen out of the blue. The cinematographic language has the potential to explore narrative and aesthetically, achieving a harmony between what’s been represented and the representations through symbols or concrete facts.

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Film Festival Reports

TIFF 2018. WAVELENGTHS: FALLEN ARCHES, FAINTING SPELLS, WALLED UNWALLED

By Nicolás Carrasco

A few months ago, I had the chance to watch in NY for the first time, a film by Simon Liu. Projected in four 16mm projectors, Highview (2017), impressed me for its capacity of formally combining two concepts that refer back to, for example, Mekas, but with a completely different language. Liu’s work, if well could be identified with any of those “styles”, explores its own roads, completely unseen and singular.

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Críticas

TIFF 2018. WAVELENGTHS: FALLEN ARCHES, FAINTING SPELLS, WALLED UNWALLED

Por Nicolás Carrasco

Hace unos meses, en Nueva York, tuvimos la oportunidad de ver por primera vez una película de Simon Liu. Proyectada en cuatro proyectores de 16mm, Highview (2017) nos impresionó mucho por su capacidad de combinar formalmente la abstracción del cine lírico con los momentos íntimos del diario fílmico, dos conceptos que remiten, por ejemplo, a Mekas, pero con un lenguaje completamente distinto. El trabajo de Liu, si bien podría identificarse con cualquiera de estos “estilos”, explora sus propios caminos, completamente inéditos y singulares.

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Film Festival Reports

TIFF 2018. WAVELENGTHS: POLLY ONE BY KEVIN JEROME JEFFERSON

By Mónica Delgado

Unlike other experimental filmmakers that have shown a fascination for the eclipse as a metaphor of the auscultation of cinematographic support in in its materiality (a reality superimposed to another, like the position of the stars), in Polly One, Kevin Jerome Everson captures the intensity itself of this phenomena of the skies to take it to the possibility to become real spectators of an event of this nature that it’s barely intervened.

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