By Pablo Gamba
Program 3 of Crossroads experimental film festival, “Take this as some kind of signal”, presented nine short films by Jodie Mack, Bruno Valera, Colectivo los Ingrávidos, Callum Walter, Im Youngzoo and other filmmakers, grouped around the subject of communication and other topics, such as science fiction and plants.
By Mónica Delgado
A short experimental film, an homage to Paul Sharits by Catalonian filmmaker Antoni Pinent was projected in one of the brief international sections of the fourth edition of MUTA – International Audiovisual Appropriation Festival. Paul Sharits, the great avantgarde visual artist, a key piece of the called “structural cinema” from the United States.
By Mónica Delgado
By this time of the century, we could say that Pandora’s Box (1929) G.W. Pabst classic silent film, shows women as guilty of tragedy. Everything in the film is associated with the myth of the famous box that encloses all the evils in the world, opened by Epimetheus wife, Pandora, which in Pabst film takes a sweet materiality in the figure of Louise Brooks.
By Ivonne Sheen
This is a second entry about short films which deal with experiences around memory and perception, and that took part of Oberhausen’s International Competition. The following short films develop diverse approaches to these topics.
By Monica Delgado
In times of political correctness, Henri Plaat’s work displays disturbing. Beyond the search for the perfect shot and frames, the result of the filmmaker’s pictorial provenance, a suggestive transgressive intention is perceived, that at the same time, seeks to confront common senses about the beautiful, the grotesque, with criticism of social hypocrisy.
By Ivonne Sheen
These days, when our physical interactions are quite limited and we constantly communicate through interfaces, memory could mean this common place within our affections, where we can still relate deeply with our subjectivity. Some short films from Oberhausen’s International Competition reflect on memory and perception. Both are human experiences that, fundamentally nowadays, are essentially valuable. This is a first entry about these topics.
By Ivonne Sheen
One of the greatest achievements of Oberhausen short film Festival is their showcase of film and video Archives’ curatorial selections. Among them, Fundacja Arton’s exhibition curated by Marika Ku?micz, showed film and video works by female artist with strong avant-garde and feminist voices. The Arton Foundation compiles private archives of artists’ works, who during the 60s and 70s created the artistic scene in Poland during their communist era.
By Ivonne Sheen
The online streaming of Oberhausen’s Film Festival is organized chronically. Different programs are shared everyday, which will be online only for 48 hours. This method contributes to a constant rhythm of viewing, closer to the regular dynamics during Film Festivals. In this way, the audiences are more able to catch most of the Film Festival along its duration. This online version goes through 13-18 May.
By Ivonne Sheen
Purple Sea is a reminder of the struggles that multiply and quietly happen in this world, one above another and tangling as new chapters of our same unequal and war-phile History.
By Ivonne Sheen
The Calm after the Storm (2020) by young colombian filmmaker Mónica Gaviria is a bright example of these new gazes, which aim to renew and re build new paths in latinamerican filmmaking, and break away from ideologies rooted in past generations, by exposing and question them. The film is part of the competitive section Burning Lights.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
ISSN 2311-7451
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