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MAPA DE ELÍAS LEÓN SIMINIANI

Por Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Mapa (España, 2012), una película-canción como la describió el propio Siminiani, es un film-diario, en el cual se exploran las reglas lingüísticas del cine a través del empleo de material autobiográfico, (re)definiendo nuevos territorios conceptuales en el cine de no ficción.

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LAS HURDES BY LUI BUÑUEL

By John A. Riley

With his third film, Luis Buñuel set out to parody the vogue for exotic ethnographic travelogues while delivering bitterly satirical attacks on poverty and the supposed objectivity of ethnographic and anthropological observers. Buñuel read Maurice Legendre’s account of his experiences in Las Hurdes, Spain, and something about this fervent Catholic’s account of the remote, destitute region fired Buñuel’s creativity.

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PANORAMA: VERS MADRID BY SYLVAIN GEORGE

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

After following illegal immigrants for three years in Calais, Sylvain George‘s work came to an initial praise among film critics: In fact,his diptych Qu’ils Reposent En Révolte (Des Figures De Guerre) and Les Éclats (Ma Gueule, Ma Révolte, Mon Nom), two films best understood as a single, individual work, were essential as pure depictions of the human factor that these wondering undocumented citizens represented, the whole issue of immigration put under a magnifying glass.

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PANORAMA: A BLUE BIRD, DE SEBASTIAN WESMAN

Por Mónica Delgado

 A través de siete capítulos, Sebastian Wesman (nacido en Argentina y residente en Estonia) nos introduce a una experiencia material y sonora: una iglesia, un violinista, el espacio y la música, en planos que capturan precisamente el acto de instrumentalizar, bajo los preceptos de la acústica.

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PANORAMA: TRAVELING LIGHT BY GINA TELAROLI

By Jose Sarmiento

Traveling Light dwells on the subject of travel in all its metaphysical sense, either as a documentary of travel, as a recreation, or as a mixture of both. The departure, the sense of loss and moving away of territory, the longing and nostalgia of a simple voyage: Feelings and sensations piled up and captured by the artificial eye.

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PANORAMA: WILD AND PRECIOUS BY BILL MOUSOULIS

By Mónica Delgado

Under the eye of a camera which follows its characters with the immediacy and texture of digital cinema, Bill Mousoulis proposes a fiction contextualized in the current Greek economic crisis, which works not as a backdrop for the film, but as a symbolic spleen for its lead character, an old Italian filmmaker drawn to the political chaos and social critique in Athens, desperate to document it, away from him family and friends.

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