Por José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Antes que nada, las imágenes aparentemente fugaces y desconectadas de Figure Minus Fact (2020) de Mary Helena Clark hablan de una gran convergencia. Es una convergencia de conocimiento dialéctico, a través de la contingencia inherente de imágenes del aparato de vida, que se abre con el mecanismo de una campana como un gran transportador al inicio de los tiempos.
by Claudia Siefen-Leitich
Filmmaker and poet Yuri Muraoka, born in 1981, describes her films, videos, photographs and texts as “self-portraits”, but above all she shows the modern image of a woman within contemporary Japanese society. Writings and drawings as well as her collaboration with the “Video Research Laboratory” consolidated the cinematic work of the internationally established artist. Perversion, illness, and corporeality form the framework for her self-documenting art. In 2019 I was able to pair two of her films with a screening of Koji Wakamtsu, and here I would like to take a closer look at this her very individual and personal form of artistic self-expression.
By Rodrigo Garay
I wanted to compare some of Vladimir Solovyov’s original passages from War and Christianity with its counterparts in Puiu’s film to try to reveal a modern reading of an old moral debate. Then I thought it would be better to focus on mise-en-scène and the thoughtful support of dialogue that intertwines the characters through its fluid panning shots.
Por Mónica Delgado
De profesión cineasta y antropóloga, Sandra Luz López Barroso conversó con Desistfilm, en el marco del estreno de su primer largo en Ficunam. Conversamos sobre sus inicios en el cine, de su interés en registrar la Costa Chica y las comunidades afromexicanas, y sobre el proceso de producción de El compromiso de las sombras.
By Mónica Delgado
Since her final project, Son de Artesa (2006-2007), Mexican filmmaker Sandra Luz López Barroso showed her interest in reflecting personal and social dynamics within the Afro-descendant communities in her country. A few days ago, she won the award for best film in the Now Mexico section at Ficunam Film Festival competition, with her first feature film El Compromiso de las sombras, along with Los fundadores, by Diego Hernández. In this first film, she returns to the registry of a territory that she has known for more than fifteen years, but through Lizbeth, a trans woman who directs the funeral rituals of several communities in the Costa Chica, an area of Afro-Mexican towns between the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca.
Por Alonso Aguilar
Intercalando movimientos corporales agudos e intensas tomas dramáticas, el cineasta francés Julien Faraut ha rediseñado el formato de los documentales deportivos en adaptación de sus propios intereses. Para él, los temas de sus películas no están solo en la destreza incomparable y los triunfos impensables, sino más bien en el reflejo de la propia iconografía deportiva. Personajes que vemos a través de la lente del tiempo cinematográfico.
By Dina Pokrajac
Letters have been sent and received since antiquity. But what is the relation of the epistolary practice to cinema? Is every film an open letter inventing its addressee or is it a missive intended for a very specific reader? If the epistle is a form of documenting the past, can it truly capture the exquisite intricacy of its repressed insinuations and remerging indications, or is it merely “rescuing” the banal and otherwise soon to be forgotten fragments of our quotidian?
By Alonso Aguilar
Intercutting between sharp body movements and intense dramatic sights, French filmmaker Julien Faraut has retooled the sports documentary format to fit his own pursuits. For him, the subjects of his films aren’t just about their unmatched prowess and unthinkable triumphs, but more so a reflection of their own iconography. We see them through the lens of cinematic time. Their actions are repurposed, reframed and recontextualized, while their narratives leave behind the restrictive realms of representation in favor of the limitless possibilities of true expression.
Por Mónica Delgado
La cámara (o el hombre cámara) está dentro de un vagón del metro observando a los pasajeros que esperan en el andén, afuera. De pronto comienza el viaje y la cámara que mira hacia el exterior capta, en medio de la leve velocidad, a una joven que se acerca a su pareja y le da un sorpresivo beso.
Por Charles Fairbanks
Sobre la extraordinaria exhibición de videos, “Monogramas III: Archivos de video comunitario de Oaxaca”, que muestra el surgimiento del estado como un epicentro en el movimiento de video comunitario. Hecho con la cooperación de decenas de colectivos mediáticos, grupos comunitarios, y videastas indígenas, y curado por Oliver Martínez Kandt, esa exposición también retrató los vastos cambios en el México rural desde que se promulgó el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) – y desde que los Zapatistas se rebelaron – en enero de 1994.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
ISSN 2311-7451
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