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TODA LA PROGRAMACIÓN DE 2° LIMA ALTERNA
Del 17 al 26 de Septiembre del 2021 se desarrolla en la virtualidad la 2° edición de Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine, un reciente
2021.09.01
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S(8) MOSTRA DE CINEMA PERIFÉRICO 2021: LA MECÁNICA DE LA LUZ
Por José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Imaginemos un escenario ficticio -o quizá un delirio febril- en el que las vibraciones lumínicas a escala cuántica cargan consigo alguna especie de verdad difusa, que los intersticios entre la fragmentación de la luz cinemática ocultan verdades que descubrimos a través de la sinapsis cerebral, la concatenación de imágenes fijas en la eterna ilusión del movimiento. Godard afirmó que “el cine es la verdad a 24 cuadros por segundo” y me pregunto si en estos intervalos deleuzianos, o en las declaraciones de Godard, se encuentra la clave para descubrir lo que le es inmanente al cine: luz, oscuridad, fragmentación, concatenación, periodo, espacio, verdad.
2021.06.06
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FELIPE ESPARZA: “WITHOUT ENIGMA THERE’S NO FASCINATION”
By Monica Delgado
The work of young filmmaker Felipe Esparza is one of the most stimulating in current Peruvian cinema. Although to date Esparza has directed short films, such as the Espacio Sagrado series (2016), Laguna Negra (2020) or The old child (2021), in them he has been demonstrating the configuration of a particular world based on careful sound work and in the construction of spaces and characters from a point of view that identifies peculiarities and sensibilities from the relationship with nature and the gods.
2021.05.31
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OBERHAUSEN: ABOUT SHORT FILMS IEVA AND MEMORIES (MINNEN)
By Monica Delgado
Within the international competition of Oberhausen International Festival, I was able to watch two remarkable short films, which from their particularities ,address female characters in atypical situations, as constructions, that is, as imaginary designs of ideal prototypes , which are seen in the impossibility of a “must be”: the fiction Ieva, by filmmakers Vytautas Plukas and Domas Petronis, and the documentary Memories (Minnen) by Kristin Johannessen.
2021.05.15
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JANIE GEISER: “I LIKE TO BE INVOLVED IN WORK THAT ALLOWS MY CURIOSITY TO GET IN PLAY”
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
I would like to recover some words with a previous exchange with Louisiana-born artist Janie Geiser, which aptly reflect on how I still feel about the work of this wonderful American experimental filmmaker, author of masterpieces of collage cinema such as The Red Book (1994), Ghost Algebra (2010), Valeria Street (2018), Reverse Shadow (2019), among many others. Janie also works in installation and performance with expanded cinema and puppets, and co-created Automata, an experimental film and puppet theater in Los Angeles.
2021.05.11
Cinéma du Réel
CINÉMA DU RÉEL 2021: TWO FILMS BY CLAIRE SIMON AND NICOLAS KLOTZ / ELIZABETH PERCEVAL
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Claire Simon (Gare du Nord) has been dwelling in her own personal form of documentary for years now. “People ring true or false in fiction cinema as well as in documentary cinema.” Here, she embarks to a small Provençal village where a garage shop is run by a group of men.
2021.03.25
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CINÉMA DU RÉEL 2021: ON TWO FILMS BY SANDRO AGUILAR AND JESSICA SARAH RINLAND
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
I find myself wondering the exact meaning of “archaeology of the image”, if as this term could encompass the route I’m trying to follow when watching the latest films of Sandro Aguilar and Jessica Sarah Rinland. If by archaeology we understand the recovery or analysis of material culture, how can the image in its materiality be unearthed from its underlying presence to re-signify the use of its moments, to put in context a different narrative linked with the deleuzean idea of the image-time?
2021.03.19
Críticas
MIDBO 2020: TRES FILMES DE BEN RIVERS
Por José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Etnografía de ciencia ficción. Esta vuelca de tuerca con la que Ben Rivers realiza sus documentales de ficción, desestabiliza lo fundamental del documental etnográfico, creando un desbalance que se despega de la mirada antropológica, de la observación mediada, para crear un nuevo instrumento de registro que propone más de lo que observa. Los tres trabajos de Rivers fueron parte de la sección Más allá de lo real y del seminario Presente perfecto: cine documental especulativo, en la reciente edición Midbo 2020.
2020.11.05
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FREEDOM OF BODY AND SOUL: TWO FILMS BY CECILIA BENGOLEA AND CHRISTELLE LHEUREUX
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Two 2020 films I saw which were decidedly different from one another but shared a common element that made them exceptionally good and drove me to write a piece about them (in this series of impossible dialogues between films I am planning to do) were the dance/coreography documentary Shelly Belly Inna Real Life by Argentinian filmmaker, dancer and choreographer Cecilia Bengolea and 80,000 ans, a dreamlike split screen film by Christelle Lheureux.
2020.10.19
Críticas
LIMA ALTERNA 2020, PUENTES: HER NAME WAS EUROPA DE OJOBOCA, MS SLAVIC 7 DE SOFIA BOGDANOVICH Y DERAGH CAMPBELL
Por José Sarmiento Hinojosa
¿Bajo qué premisa tendemos puentes entre dos obras que no parecen entrelazarse en un diálogo simbiótico? Es la principal duda que queda flotando en el aire luego de la experiencia de ver MS Slavic 7 y Her Name Was Europa, dos filmes decididamente interesantes bajo sus propias pretensiones de representación, pero parte de dos discursos enteramente distintos.
2020.09.28