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ON LAB LABA LABA (SPIDER LAB) AND THE PLAYFUL REINCARNATION OF THE PROPAGANDA FILMS OF NEW ORDER ERA INDONESIA

By Lauren Bliss*

In early 2015, the Indonesian experimental film co-operative Lab laba laba (Spider Lab) restored for exhibition a large number of propaganda films that had been produced in the abandoned film studios of the State Production Film Centre (PFN) in Jakarta. Having been left to the elements for nearly 12 years, the PFN was once the central film production house of New-Order era Indonesia.

2016.04.24

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BAFICI 2016: LAS LINDAS DE MELISA LIEBENTHAL

Por Pablo Gamba Las películas sobre la infancia y la adolescencia se han destacado en el 18° Bafici, tanto por la cantidad como por la

2016.04.24

BAFICI

BAFICI 2016: IMPLANTACIÓN DE FERMÍN ACOSTA, LUCÍA SALAS Y SOL BOLLOQUI

Por Mónica Delgado A través de imágenes de archivo y a partir de un discurso de Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, presidente militar de facto, en 1973, Implantación parte

2016.04.24

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GOD’S LEFT INDEX FINGER: ON JONATHAN DEMME’S “THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS”

By Victor Bruno

Over the last few months—starting with the release of Ricki and the Flash (2015) on home video—I developed an interest in Jonathan Demme’s cinema. As I watched his films, I developed a few ideas and scratched some notes on them about his ideas, interests and general style. That, by coincidence, happened to coincide with shifts on ideas of my own. Some of these notes were abbreviated and became my entry on MUBI’s Notebook fantasy double-feature pool.

2016.04.24

New Filmmakers

NEW FILMMAKER: DOUWE DIJKSTRA

By Andreea Patru

While most filmmakers use technique to create parallel universes or to conceive perfectly polished images, Douwe Dijkstra reveals his tools in order to demystify the art of cinema. Based in Netherlands, Douwe is an up and coming experimental filmmaker who is interested in exploring quotidian matters through the tools of mixed media. His last short film Voor Film (in English: Supporting Film) is a commissioned piece that premiered at Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen and got selected for the daring Lab Competition from the Clermont Ferrand Film Festival this year.

2016.04.24

Artículos

DE LA REVOLUCIÓN AL MILAGRO: LA TRILOGÍA DE ITUZAINGÓ DE RAÚL PERRONE Y EL “CINE IMPERFECTO”

Por Pablo Gamba

El cine de la Trilogía de Ituzaingó de Raúl Perrone –Labios de churrasco (1994), Graciadió (1997) y Cinco pal’ peso (1998)– está hecho como de milagro. La plegaria de Juan en la primera película, dirigida a “diosito querido, virgencita de Luján, San Cayetano, Ceferino Namuncurá”, no pareciera pedir solamente que se le conceda un buen día al protagonista. También puede ser un ruego para que llegue a buen puerto un filme cuya imagen, como señala Nicolás Bermúdez, da la impresión de que va a derrumbarse en cualquier momento.

2016.04.23

Video essays

THE CAMERA, MATTER AND PRESENCE: ON THE SILVER GLOBE AND HARD TO BE A GOD

By Mónica Delgado

What are the similarities, beyond their arguments, between On The Silver Globe and Hard to Be a God? Both in Andrzej Zulawski’s film, as in Aleksei German’s, science fiction is the point of departure to tell stories of scientific nature in two planets similar to Earth. In both films there are characters forced to live in new communities, or to establish them, where historical processes experienced on Earth are replicated under the same social and human dialectics. These are dystopian and pessimistic universes, where research and investigation become focus and narrative eye.

2016.04.23

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EDWARD HOPPER: THE MIRROR EFFECT

By Vica Smirnova

Since the 1930s Hopper has been quoted endlessly: De Mille and Siodmak, Hitchcock and Lynch. Hopper’s infinite stylizations reproduced the same effect of subtraction of the human, priority of space over its character. In his Victorian cottages, deserted cafes and hotels, a character was present only to point out his own insignificance. Hopper invented an absent America, and having fallen in love with its own reflection, it forgot about the author, as if this landscape had materialized out of thin air and had existed from the start.

2016.04.23

Video Ensayo

CÁMARA: MATERIA Y PRESENCIA EN ON THE SILVER GLOBE Y HARD TO BE A GOD

Por Mónica Delgado

¿Cuáles son las semejanzas, más allá de lo argumental, en On The Silver Globe y Hard to be a God? Tanto en el film de Andrzej Zulawski como en el de Aleksei German se parte de la ciencia ficción, para narrar hechos de naturaleza científica en dos planetas similares a la Tierra. En ambas películas hay personajes obligados a vivir en nuevas comunidades, o fundarlas, donde los procesos históricos vividos en la Tierra son replicados bajo la misma dialéctica de lo social y de lo humano. Universos distópicos y pesimistas, donde la indagación e investigación se vuelven foco y ojo narrativo.

2016.04.23

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BERTOLUCCI’S “FAKE OPHELIA”

By Luke Scerri

It is an unfortunate undeniable occurrence that in film criticism, the importance of the musical contribution to the transformation of the art form is quite often overlooked, or underestimated because of several other factors that seem to strike the viewer at first glance. Bertolucci’s Last Tango In Paris is certainly no exception.

2016.04.22