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Berlinale

BERLINALE 2018: WILD RELATIVES – PLANTS AND BIRDS AND ROCKS AND THINGS

By Pamela Cohn

Forum and Forum Expanded with its forty-eight year legacy has become its own robust festival residing still pretty much in the shadows of the main program, but with its own imperatives of collecting stories from the periphery. Some colleagues are always sure to tell me how underwhelmed they are by the programming. This year, the exhibition’s theme curated by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, expertly led by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, is entitled A Mechanism Capable of Changing Itself, a nod to avant-garde film artist Maya Deren’s idea: “Marxism is the only theory of politics which designed a mechanism capable of changing itself – as in the concept of the withering away of the state.”

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2018.02.17
Berlinale

BERLINALE 2018: ISLE OF DOGS BY WES ANDERSON

By Aldo Padilla

Usually, there is some condescendence when talking about animated cinema, which is usually put in the “family” or “children” section. To the generalists, this cinema is usually limited to consume or nostalgia, with no other quality that its pictorial beauty or its closeness to reality. Despite this idea, it’s possible that animated cinema could be evaluated under the same parameters than conventional cinema, while certain qualities of it make animation unique in its conception, turning that genre in a contradiction in itself.

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2018.02.16
Film Festival Reports

ROTTERDAM 2018: THE FACT, THE FAKE AND THE FICTION

by Chloé-Galibert-Laîné

Having discovered IFFR for the first time this year, I can’t comment on the evolution of the program over years, or the specificity of this 2018 edition. And I regret it: I would have loved to be able to measure the impact of the overall insanity of 2017 on this year’s productions, as well as on the curatorial choices of the festival’s programmers.

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2018.02.13
Film Festival Reports

ROTTERDAM 2018: THE MONSTER THAT ENGULFS ITSELF (A BALANCE)

By Aldo Padilla

“Strange” seems to be the only definition that could apply to this Rotterdam 2018, since despite the outstanding organization of the festival itself, its programming left a few bumps, in some cases too big to ignore. Possibly, the weight of the years and their effect, the amount of films and tendencies took their toll with the Dutch festival, although this didn’t diminished the quality of the great new films seen for the first time.

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2018.02.07
Film Festival Reports

ROTTERDAM 2018: GOOD EVENING TO THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE CAMP,CARTUCHO AND PLAYING MEN

By Aldo Padilla

The limbos in which some medium-length films are handled due to their duration usually make their situation quite complex in festivals. Most of these films are documentaries 40 to 60 minutes long, and they keep away from the circuits of short and feature films circuits, having serious difficulties to be programmed in commercial cinemas, even at art-house theaters. This is why places like the medium-length film competition in Rotterdam Film Festival are such a great opportunity for their visualization, and for some awards. Also, one can see a great creative freedom in these works and clear examples that duration is not a limiting feature in front of the ideas the pose. This freedom can be seen in the competition selection of this year.

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2018.02.04
Film Festival Reports

ROTTERDAM 2018: MORMAÇO, POSSESSED AND DJON AFRICA

By  Aldo Padilla

The Rotterdam international competition is possibly one of the most important for filmmakers with a first feature, since it is focused in first and second films. Although the number is very limited (just eight films for a couple of years now), in this competition there’s always place for some surprises.

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2018.02.01
Film Festival Reports

ROTTERDAM 2018: HOMOGENEOUS, EMPTY TIME BY THUNSKA PANSITTIVORAKUL Y HARIT SRIKHAO

By Aldo Padilla

Homogeneous, Empty Time talks about the empty time when the King dies and the military junta seems to take the control of a country with a massive population that moves between oriental capitalism, the radical Buddhist tradition and the mix of religions that inhabit the country. Pansittivorakul and Srikhao dose the film with touches of humor, a way of lightening a little bit a situation that is not always denounced in such an explicit way, with a language so far away from being condescending

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2018.01.30
Film Festival Reports

ROTTERDAM 2018: A TIGER IN WINTER BY LEE KWANGKUK AND LA PELÍCULA INFINITA BY LEANDRO LISTORTI

By Aldo Padilla

If in its own way, every work of art has its degree of infinity, the case of Listorti’s film drives us to value unfinished projects that are kept away and grow old without anyone knowing. Not only incomplete projects, but scenes shot but were kept in some drawer, cut by the able hands of the editor, improvised dialogues that weren’t taken into account.

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2018.01.28

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