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BAFICI 2012: LA CASA DE EMAK BAKIA DE OSKAR ALEGRÍA

Por Mónica Delgado

En La Casa de Emak Bakia, el cineasta se propone grabar la búsqueda de la casa que inspiró el corto Emak Bakia de Man Ray, filmado en 1926. Se traslada a Biarritz, cerca a la frontera con España, teniendo como únicas pistas algunas fotos, investigaciones sobre el nombre del corto y la casa donde vivió Man Ray  y, sobre todo, una fijación por traducir a la pantalla algunos motivos de la vanguardia histórica: escritura automática, juegos dadaístas, devoción al azar y lo onírico.

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BAFICI 2012: 10+10 -VARIUS

By Lea Liotine

I anticipated this film with the highest expectations, not only because it was a potpourri of twenty-five minute shorts by many established and emerging Taiwanese directors, including the master himself Hou Hsiao-hsien, but also because it was commissioned by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China’s formal establishment.

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BAFICI 2012: TABÚ BY MIGUEL GOMES

Por Mónica Delgado

Tabú is a film of references to the old days of cinema, a two part tale (“Lost paradise” and “paradise”), an ode to black and white nostalgia, to the expressive aesthetics of silent film, with small moments of brilliant humor and a 60’s pop soundtrack. If in Aquel querido mes de agosto, Gomes makes a lucid exercise in expressive renovation and metalanguage surprises, in Tabú, the clear homage to F.W. Murnau’s film feels powerful, like if the ghost of the German filmmaker was tempted to suddenly appear in front of us.

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BAFICI 2012: BESTIAIRE BY DENIS COTÉ

By Catherine Jessica Beed

In the opening sequence of Bestiaire, three artists sketch a doe, slowly revealed to be dead and stuffed. The differing ways they focus on recreating the animal, one outlining, one laying the foundation for texture over form, initially coaxes a thoughtful introspection, that each of us in one moment viewing the same thing will always differ in our interests and perceptions of what we are seeing.

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BAFICI 2012: ALOIS NEBEL BY TOMÁS LUNÁK

By Mónica Delgado

Alois Nebel is an adaptation of Jaroslav Rudiš andJaromír 99’s graphic novel, realized in rotoscoping: A technique which traces animated movements shot by shot following a previous real filming (as in Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly or Waking Life)

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