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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

New Filmmakers

NEW FILMMAKER: FRANK FU

By Mónica Delgado

Frank Fu is a young filmmaker living between EEUU, Australia and China. With his first film, Orange Confucius, he comes across a multi-disciplinary artist with transgressive intentions.

2017.03.15

Artículos

VIAJAR A LA DERIVA. TRES DOCUMENTALES SOBRE REFUGIADOS

Por Iván Ramírez Zapata

¿Cómo es la vida del refugiado? ¿Qué vínculos deja atrás? ¿A dónde quiere llegar y para qué? ¿Qué arriesga? ¿Qué es lo que pierde en el camino? En este artículo voy a comentar tres documentales estrenados en años recientes a propósito de este tema, y que se aproximan a estas preguntas.

2017.03.15

Book & DVD reviews

THE PERFORMANCE OF TRAUMA IN MOVING IMAGE ART BY DIRK DE BRUYN

Review by Adrian Martin

Dirk de Bruyn’s book is a bold and original piece of in-depth, sustained research that brings together two areas have never been brought into relationship in this way, at this length. On the one hand, there is the lineage of experimental audiovisual work. (I personally dislike the visual-centric term ‘moving image art’ – sound has been around for a while now! – but each person chooses their own label, wisely or not.)

2017.03.13