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VISIONS DU RÉEL 2021: BELA BY PRANTIK BASU

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

The sinuous forms in the floor, carefully drawn by the women in Bela, create a wonderful pattern of contours. This movement, carefully paced and produced as a celebration, serves as a preparation for the Chhau, a local traditional mask folk dance in the town. In the first moments of Bela, we see the men of the town, preparing for the dance, their movement sinuous also create contours in the air, a strange electricity captured by Indian director Prantik Narayan Basu.

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2021.05.03
Film Festival Reports

VISIONS DU RÉEL 2021: SONGS OF LIVING BY CÉCILE ALLEGRA

By Monica Delgado

As part of the special screenings, the documentary Songs of the Living (Les Chant des vivant, 2021) by French director Cécile Allegra was seen in the inaugural and online setting of the 52nd edition of the Swiss festival Visions du Réel. This new work adheres to the interests expressed by the filmmaker in her previous documentaries, insofar as it addresses social issues with a clear political and commitment component.

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2021.04.20
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VISIONS DU RÉEL 2021: COURAGE BY ALIAKSEI PALUYAN

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Behind the crisp cinematography of Aleksei’s Paluvan latest documentary Courage (2020), lies the story of an underground theater group in Minsk, surviving through times of Alexander Lukashenko’s dictatorship of over 20 years, in the middle of a fraudulent election to further prolong the last communist regime in Europe.

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2021.04.20
Film Festival Reports

VISIONS DU RÉEL 2021: SHORT FILMS BY MOONA PENNANEN, JULIE RAMAGE AND CRISTINA MOTTA

By Monica Delgado

This online edition of the Visions du Reél festival has a competition for shorts and medium-length films that allows access to some works, which, although they are made under a very different influence from each other, gives a glimpse of the political touch of this edition, understood as a critical approach to various contemporary facts of reality.

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2021.04.19
Cinéma du Réel

CINÉMA DU RÉEL: KINDERTOTENLIEDER BY VIRGIL VERNIER

By Monica Delgado

We knew the work of Virgil Vernier from acting and directing fictions like the great Mercuriales, so his new work with archive material gives us a different facet from the documentary side. Seen in the French films section of the recent Cinéma du Réel, Kindertotenlieder is a reconstruction of the riots in Clichy-sous-Bois, near Paris in 2005, taken from television news videos

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2021.03.25
Cinéma du Réel

CINÉMA DU RÉEL: UN SOUVENIR D’ARCHIVES BY CHRISTOPHE BISSON

By Monica Delgado

How to establish a relationship between memory, archive and the present that escapes the usual common meanings of historical documentaries? How to approach the biographical genre without appealing to the classic narrative elements where the interpellation is left out? How to describe the sensitivity and baggage of the archivist in this process of recovery and reinterpretation of memory

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2021.03.23
Cinéma du Réel

CINÉMA DU RÉEL: FIGURE MINUS FACT BY MARY HELENA CLARK

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

“Don’t talk unless you  can’t improve the silence”

Before anything, the seemingly fleeting and unconnected images of Mary Helena Clark’s Figure Minus Fact (2020) speak of a great convergence. It’s a convergence of dialectical knowledge, through inherent contingency of images from the apparatus of life, which opens with the mechanism of a bell as a great conveyor for beginning.

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2021.03.23

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