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CITIZEN KAEL, A VIDEO ESSAY

By Monica Delgado

In her famous 1971 article Raising Kane, film critic Pauline Kael rants against the authorship of Orson Welles in Citizen Kane. Today we know that Kael’s arguments were not solid.However, she revealed an absolute passion to dismantle films and defend her positions.

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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.

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