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Video essays

THE SWAMP (LA CIÉNAGA) BY LUCRECIA MARTEL: A VIDEOESSAY

By Monica Delgado

With La Ciénaga (2001), Lucrecia Martel made her debut into feature films, and did so with clear and rational structure that looks to reflect the signs of decadence of a social class, with characters that spend summer in an Argentinian northern rural zone estate. Beyond raising the question of how a determined social stratum in Argentina becomes reflected in this film, I’m interested in finding out some motives about the idea of family that La Ciénaga suggests.

2017.03.19

Artículos

LA CIÉNAGA DE LUCRECIA MARTEL

Por Mónica Delgado

Con La Ciénaga, Lucrecia Martel debutó en el largometraje, y lo hizo a través de un film con una clara y racional estructura que busca reflejar los signos de decadencia de una clase social, con personajes que pasan el verano en una estancia en una zona rural del norte argentino. Más allá de plantear el film como reflejo de un determinado momento social en Argentina, pos crisis económica, lo que me interesa es detectar algunos motivos en torno a la idea de familia que La Ciénaga sugiere.

2017.03.17

CPH:DOX

CPH:DOX 2017: THE LOST DREAMS OF NAOKI HAYAKAWA BY ANE HJORT GUTTU AND DAISUKE KOSUGI

By Mónica Delgado

Screened in the New:Vision Award section of the CPH:DOX Film Festival, happening this week, The lost dreams of Naoki Hayakawa is interesting when the filmmakers see as a rarity this labor alienation, rescuing the poetic in the life of a character that lives for his work, single, alone, with broken dreams, but who fantasizes about bubbles in the elevators or a flag made of hair that flames near the sea.

2017.03.17

CPH:DOX

CPH:DOX 2017: SWAGGER BY OLIVIER BABINET

By Morella Moret

Screened in the Kids & Youth section of the CPH:DOX Film Festival, happening this week, Swagger by Olivier Babinet tells us the story of a post-terror, fragmented France, as experienced by a diverse group of students. Babinet proposes a collective therapy session where the goal is avoiding judgment, either from the one who gazes or the one who is gazed at. The teenagers tell us their childhood dreams and adulthood nightmares. The director tries to show this through a sincere and wistful eye that is refreshing but sometimes overwhelming.

2017.03.17

CPH:DOX

CPH:DOX 2017: SWAGGER DE OLIVIER BABINET

Por Morella Moret

Presentada en la sección Kids & Youth del festival danés CPH:DOX, que se realiza esta semana, Swagger, de Olivier Babinet, nos cuenta la historia de una Francia post terror y fragmentada a partir de las vivencias colegiales de un grupo de jóvenes. Babinet crea una especie de terapia colectiva en donde el objetivo es que nadie va a ser juzgado ni por el observador ni por el observado. Ellos nos dicen sus nombres y así nos introducen a sus sueños de niños y a sus pesadillas adultas. El director nos trata de mostrar a través de ellos una mirada inocente y sincera que nos refresca pero a veces abruma.

2017.03.17

CPH:DOX

CPH:DOX 2017: STRANGER IN PARADISE DE GUIDO HENDRIKX

Por Mónica Delgado

Pocas veces una película logra remover las raíces de las políticas sobre la migración como lo hace Stranger in Paradise, a partir de la escenificación de un requisito burocrático, que implica la participación de un actor que simula ser un docente o empleado del estado en tres momentos distintos, donde refugiados reales lidian con un proceso para obtener la residencia en Holanda.

2017.03.16

Q&A

Q & A: NELE WOHLATZ

By Carlos Rentería

Nele Wolhatz was born in Hannover, Germany, but has been living in Argentina for a number of years now. It is in this country where she directed the short film Novios del Campo and her feature film Ricardo Bär. In this pleasant conversation, he talks about different processes: the ones of her last film, of films in general and its frontiers, and the migration process.

2017.03.16

CPH:DOX

CPH:DOX 2017: THE THIRD OPTION BY THOMAS FÜRHAPTER

By Ivonne Sheen

The Third Option put us in the middle of several ethical questions about the way contemporary societies have figured life, health, and progress. Along the film, there are different voices that guide us through a minimalistic visual essay (echoing Harun Farocki), which take us from personal testimony, to philosophical and scientific thoughts.

2017.03.16

CPH:DOX

CPH:DOX 2017: STRANGER IN PARADISE BY GUIDO HENDRIKX

By Mónica Delgado

Only in rare occasions does a film stir up the politic roots of migration such as Stranger in Paradise does, and it does that by staging a bureaucratic process with an actor simulating to be a teacher or employee of the state in three different moments, while real refugees deal with a process to get a Dutch residency.

2017.03.16

Main Articles

A SLOW ARTIST?: THE QUINCE TREE SUN BY VICTOR ERICE AND ANTONIO LOPEZ GARCIA

By Vica Smirnova

As with Antonio López Garcia, who follows nature, Victor Erice creates a palimpsest of times, or, rather, of traces of their presence, insisting on conventionality of end and beginning. In the end the camera, which for a long time shared a place with the artist, is left in solitude. Different mediums will create a semblance of finality; of something that doesn’t finish or, on the contrary, finishes in every moment of painting and filming.

2017.03.16