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CINÉMA DU RÉEL 2018: THE WALDHEIM WALTZ DE RUTH BECKERMANN

Por Mónica Delgado

La cineasta austriaca Ruth Beckermann recoge parte de este debate político pero lo hace a partir de la indagación de una de las figuras que precisamente hizo ingrediente de su campaña electoral este tipo de blanqueamiento histórico. De la mano de puro material de archivo, en torno al proceso electoral que vivió su país en 1984, la cineasta desnuda en The Waldheim Waltz, las acusaciones en contra del ex secretario general de la ONU y ex presidente austríaco Kurt Waldheim y su pasado nazi.

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CINÉMA DU RÉEL 2018: WESTERN, FAMILLE ET COMMUNISME DE LAURENT KRIEF

Por Mónica Delgado

En sus primeros minutos, Western, famille et communisme de Laurent Krief plantea una duda sobre el devenir político de Francia, a partir de la inserción de algunos momentos de la llamada “Nuit debout” o la Noche en Pie, un movimiento de indignados surgido en ese país en 2016. Sin embargo, las imágenes se vuelven contraparte de un diálogo en un piso de clase media en alguna ciudad de Irán, donde un grupo de personas discute sobre el papel del estado ante estas protestas y la vieja dialéctica de capitalismo y sistema comunista. Pero rápidamente el cineasta abandona esta opción de cine claramente político, para luego afirmarse sobre el terreno de la road movie y el western en una rural Irán.

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CINÉMA DU REEL 2018: OLHE BEM AS MONTANHAS DE ANA VAZ

Por Morella Moret

Olhe Bem As Montanhas de Ana Vaz arma dos paralelos visuales y sonoros entre ambos lugares. Una cámara en mano, que en pocos momentos permanece estática, nos muestra en la oscuridad a la biodiversidad controlada por el ser humano: Nord-Pas-de-Calais se ha convertido en un lugar dónde los científicos miden, codifican y observan a cada uno de los animales que por ahí transitan, para de alguna manera reparar el daño ocasionado por la explotación minera.

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CINEMA DU REEL 2018: LAS FUERZAS, BY PAOLA BUONTEMPO AND OPTIMISM DE DEBORAH STRATMAN

By Nicolás Carrasco

From the remote territory of Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, Deborah Stratman reminds us of a past that remains frozen in the winter cold. Strongly related to Bill Morrison’s Dawson City: Frozen Time, Stratman’s portrait of this town is not chronological or about film archeology; her main interest is in the study of spaces. Cancan dancers, curling players, smelters of minerals, and a curious disc on the edge of a mountain congregate to form a portrait of the city.

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CINÉMA DU REEL 2018: IN THE STILLNESS OF SOUNDS DE SERGE STEYER Y STÉPHANE MANCHEMATIN

Por Ivonne Sheen

En In the stillness of sounds seguimos desde muy cerca al ingeniero y artista sonoro Marc Namblard. Aprendemos sobre su familia, sus amigos, su entorno, pero sobretodo aprendemos sobre el arte al cual se dedica: el arte de los sonidos. Lo especial de su labor reside en sus fuentes sonoras y en su dedicación por encontrar lo sublime en el ecosistema sonoro de la naturaleza.

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NEW FILMMAKERS: JOHANN LURF

By Vladimir Seput

Johann Lurf (Vienna, 1982) is an artist and filmmaker whose fascinating experimental short films have been shown in cinemas around the world. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Slate School of Art in London, and graduated from Haruni Farocki’s Art and Film Studio. Besides Vienna where he is based, he lived in Los Angeles and Tokyo. His first feature film ? has been shown at Viennale 2017, and this year’s Sundance and Rotterdam Film Festivals, and has just won the main award at the Innovative Cinema programme of the Festival of Austrian Film Diagonale in Graz. At Diagonale, we sat down with him to talk about his compelling feature ? and the ideas that preceded it.

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CPH:DOX 2018: EXTINCTION BY SALOME LAMAS

By Aldo Padilla

Salomé Lamas travels again an unknown scenery and leaves aside the relation of man and nature as way of work, to deepen in the strange relation of belonging by men and its concept of nationality, through the rests of the huge shadow that the former Soviet Union left behind, among characters seen as ghosts, reflecting on the legacy of this giant nation that crumbled under its own weight.

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CPH:DOX 2018: LEK AND THE DOGS, A LUDORAMA ABOUT WALTER BENJAMIN

By Alonso Castro

Andrew Kotting’s Lek and the Dogs is rework on Hattie Naylor’s book Ivan and the dogs. The plot narrates the life of Ivan Mishukov’s as a child, when he abandons his home to live in the streets of Moscow, and starts coexisting with a group of street dogs. It’s a history based in real events. // Inside the Artists and auteurs section, Carlos Ferrand’s 13, a Ludorama About Walter Benjamin was exhibited. A film in 13 chapters, it documents the life of German philosopher Walter Benjamin during his exile in France, from 1933 to 1940.

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CPH:DOX 2018: BLACK MOTHER BY KHALIK ALLAH

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Black Mother deals with the identity of black women in Jamaica: religious women, old women, school girls, prostitutes. They are all part of the spiritual environment of the country, each of them part of the genesis of men. Birth and nature, faces like territories, history marked in each wrinkle, in each crevasse of the face.

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CINÉMA DU REEL 2018: L. COHEN BY JAMES BENNING

by José Sarmiento Hinojosa

One of the most relevant things about James Benning’s films is how they immediately relate to their audience. Benning’s work statism and absence of occurrences (in the typical sense of the word), can defy the patience of any veteran cinephile, yet along any newcomer who would be immediately taken aback by the realization that “nothing’s happening”. Indeed, this gesture of the avant-garde instantly reflects on the spectator: Benning’s films are very much about them as they are about the subject who is watching them. 

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