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Film Festival Reports

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL 2017: FUGUE, A LIGHT’S TRAVELOGUE BY ELS VAN RIEL

By Mónica Delgado

As in Gradual Speed, of of his latest works, the artist and filmmaker Els van Riel explores the diverse mechanisms of light as a physical and optical effect, in its specificity and materiality. In her Fugue, a Light’s Travelogue (Belgium, 2017), presented in Media City Film Festival, she elaborates a proposal of a story of light from its reverse, the phantasmagoric effect of shadows, light games and ghosts that surge from the darkness.

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Críticas

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL 2017: FUGUE, A LIGHT’S TRAVELOGUE DE ELS VAN RIEL

Por Mónica Delgado

Como en Gradual Speed, uno de sus anteriores trabajos, la cineasta y artista belga Els van Riel explora los diversos mecanismos de la luz, como efecto físico, óptico, en su especifidad y materialidad. En su Fugue, A Light’s Travelogue (Bélgica, 2017) elabora una propuesta de historia de la luz desde su reverso, en todo caso, desde el efecto de lo fantasmagórico.

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Film Festival Reports

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL 2017: JENNIFER SAPARZADEH, KEVIN JEROME EVERSON, SAUL LEVINE

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

It’s difficult not to feel shaken by the images of red flowers fenced by metal barb wires in Jennifer Saparzadeh’s last film Nu Dem. The transient feel of communities fleeing home through the Balkan Route is an image cinema has not been unaware of, but the nakedness of everyday coexistence, of a mass of humanity trying to reach Western Europe to survive, unaware if freedom or rejection awaits them, it’s specially disturbing in this kind of diary-film.

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Film Festival Reports

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL 2017: DAÏCHI SAÏTO, ANA VAZ, PABLO MAZZOLO, FRIEDL KUBELKA

by José Sarmiento-Hinojosa

Proof of the outstanding reach of the Media City Film Festival in Detroit, is the remarkable variety of styles in contemporary experimental cinema, a feat that is possible via the efforts of an outstanding team, headed by Oona Mosna, which has attempted and achieved a fine selection in this edition of 2017. Following are a group of texts devoted to share a glimpse of what expanded cinema has to offer today in the 22th edition of the MC. 

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Video essays

ADAM’S RIB BY GEORGE CUKOR: A VIDEO ESSAY

By Monica Delgado

In three moments of Adam’s Rib (EEUU, 1949), George Cukor uses the resource of breaking the fourth Wall, not with the usual intention in comedy, but to obtain some kind of filiation of the spectator in this war of the sexes which was declared.

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Cine latinoamericano

FESTIVAL DE LIMA 2017: LA REGIÓN SALVAJE DE AMAT ESCALANTE

Por Mónica Delgado
Presentada en la competencia de ficción del 21° Festival de Cine de Lima, La Región Salvaje es la mejor película de Amat Escalante, porque precisamente escapa al efectismo, al golpe de violencia gratuito y a cierta fórmula festivalera sobre el paradigma latinoamericano de sus anteriores films. Se percibe como gran favor su huida del mensaje aleccionador de un estado mexicano criminalizado, virulento y enfermo, para esta vez centrarse en un doble triángulo amoroso, donde el deseo va mutando de protagonistas, donde las fuerzas vitales lucen poderosas y agresivas.

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Cine latinoamericano

FESTIVAL DE LIMA 2017: LA IDEA DE UN LAGO DE MILAGROS MUMENTHALER

Por Mónica Delgado

La ruptura de la cuarta pared se vuelve una constante en La idea de un lago (Argentina, Suiza, Qatar, 2016) sobre todo porque para Milagros Mumenthaler se vuelve un mecanismo de confidencia directa, de inmersión del espectador en este retrato íntimo de una mujer de 35 años embarazada, que aún se pregunta qué fue de su padre desaparecido en tiempos de dictadura argentina.

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Al Este de Lima

A CONVERSATION WITH PETER TSCHERKASSKY AND EVE HELLER

By Mónica Delgado, José Sarmiento Hinojosa, Ivonne Sheen

In the framework of their last masterclass in Lima, in the context of Al Este de Lima Film Festival, some of us Desistfilmers had a chance to enjoy lunch and a nice conversation with Austrian film maverick Peter Tscherkassky and American avant-garde filmmaker Eve Heller, one of the most talented couples in the experimental film world working today. In a relaxed friendly meeting, we talked about their work, their ideas on cinema and other things regarding the current status of the film universe.

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Cine latinoamericano

PANORAMA: CUATREROS DE ALBERTINA CARRI

Por Pablo Gamba

En Cuatreros (2016) Albertina Carri vuelve, desde un ángulo diferente, al tema de la película por la que es parte de la historia contemporánea del documental latinoamericano y una figura emblemática del cine como provocación en Argentina: Los Rubios (2003). Esta vez intenta un acercamiento al mundo de sus padres partiendo del libro Isidro Velázquez: formas prerrevolucionarias de la violencia (1968), de Roberto Carri.

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Book & DVD reviews

8 SUPER 8 BY ELENA DUQUE

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Both an indelible document of love, and a manifesto for the persistence of a work which refuses to leave behind the insuperable qualities of light and touch, 8 super 8 es a unique book-object, a testimony of eight years of work by the team of (S8) Peripheral Cinema Festival (Mostra de Cinema Periferico), through the words and images of a vast numbers of collaborators. 

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