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THE COOK, HIS BOOK, THE KING AND HIS SILENCE: ABOUT A FILM BY HANS-JÜRGEN SYBERBERG

by Claudia Siefen-Leitich

If you want to get a picture of Germany, it is important to note that this country is made up of 16 constituent states. Well, if you start from the current political situation: The German Empire at that time is something you can read about and appropriate historically, but back to a Germany of 16 federal states. Not only today does this mean a concert of sounds and a mixture of 16 dialects, cultures and temperaments, which some people may not realise if they only look at Germany from the outside. Or on a map.

2024.05.16

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TROPICAL MALADY: REFLECTIONS ON JUNGLE POLITICS 20 YEARS AFTER

y Adrian Mendizabal

Returning to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s (hereby referred to as Joe) Tropical Malady (2004) is akin to revisiting the ghostly materiality of jungle politics. For many Southeast Asians, particularly those residing in rural areas, the jungle symbolizes a realm where spirits and humans coexist, often serving as a cherished home. In this essay, I aim to delve into Tropical Malady, exploring the intricate interplay of the spiritual realm within Southeast Asia’s rural landscapes and the politically charged portrayal of the jungle as the region’s revolutionary frontier.

2024.05.07

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COSMIC REALISM: UNA EXHIBICIÓN DE LA OBRA DE VÉRÉNA PARAVEL & LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR

Por Mónica Delgado

Hasta el 20 de mayo se realiza la primera retrospectiva de la obra de los cineastas Véréna Paravel y Lucien Castaing-Taylor en el Eye Filmmuseum de Amsterdam. La exhibición, titulada Cosmic Realism, permite ver en panorama casi toda la filmografía de esta dupla de cineastas, otrora voceros del denominado Laboratorio de Etnografía Sensorial de la Universidad de Harvard, y presentada a lo largo de más de una decena de años en festivales y muestras alrededor del mundo. Con un trabajo que plantea una intersección entre las metodologías de las ciencias sociales, la antropología visual y las artes visuales, los trabajos reunidos en esta muestra proponen, ante todo, una carta de presentación para un público que no conoce su trabajo y que puede resultar innecesaria o reiterativa para aquellos que ya pudieron ver su obra.

2024.03.19

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TELLURIDE HORROR SHOW: A CHRONICLE

By Joe Miller

Where the Devil Roams. This was their third film to appear at the Telluride Horror Show, and their seventh feature overall as a family—they’ve been making movies since their youngest, Zelda, was six years old. And while their latest feature is easily the most avant-garde and ambitious of the bunch, their earlier films, and especially their other horror films—Hellbender (2021) and The Deeper You Dig (2019)—are plenty edgy in their storytelling and aggressively cinematic, with moments that are positively kaleidoscopic.

2024.01.19

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FEMINISM AND CINEMA IN NICARAGUA: AN INTERVIEW WITH TANIA ROMERO AND KARLY GAITAN MORALES

Gabrielle Garcia Steib interviewed to Tania Romero and Karly Gaitan Morales about the recuperation of societal memory and cinema history of Nicaragua. “Cinema and photography are key to understanding the past and the present of the country”.

2024.01.19

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REFLECTIONS ON THE SHORT FORM WORKS OF RICARDO NICOLAYEVSKY

By Katy Montoya

At the Morelia Film Festival, Ximena Cuevas curated a program of short films by her long-time friend and collaborator Ricardo Nicolayevsky to pay homage to his decades-long body of work in light of his recent passing. The program began and ended with fragments of his short film “Impromptu” and included a selection of shorts he made of his friends and of himself between 1982 and 1985 during his time in New York City entitled “Lost Portraits.”

2023.11.14

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OF ROOMS, PEOPLE AND FUNCTIONS: AN ARCHITECTURAL VIEW ON SOME FILMS OF JOSEF DABERNIG

by Claudia Siefen-Leitich

One of my favourite works by Austrian sculptor and filmmaker Josef Dabernig is his transcription of the health guide Beauty and Digestion: Human Rejuvenation Through the Appropriate Maintenance of the Intestines by the Austrian medical doctor Franz Xaver Mayr, originally published in 1920. The human body is to be distrusted, especially one’s own.

2023.11.06

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FUTURE VS. DEATH OF CINEMA: EVERY SPECTATOR IS EITHER A COWARD OR A TRAITOR (ENG/SPA)

By Dina Pokrajac*

During a conversation on the future of cinema at this year’s Locarno FF Kevin B. Lee and Hito Steyerl came to the alarming yet self-evident conclusion that most media-works these days are at the imminent risk of perpetual abandonment, becoming “the orphans of attention.” Cinema spaces (via their attention privilege) provide one of the last sanctuaries for these orphans, yet in the aftermath of the pandemic many have closed their doors. Therefore, it is important to rethink their role in the way we de-code films.

2023.03.03

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RELANZAMIENTO: PRESENTS DE MICHAEL SNOW

Por Francisco Rojas

Por motivo del lanzamiento en blu-ray de “Presents” de Michael Snow el próximo 20 de diciembre, el cineclub La Región Central presentó una función de preestreno/lanzamiento el jueves 15 de diciembre en Santiago de Chile. Compartimos este texto sobre este clásico del experimental. Más información sobre el lanzamiento del blu-ray en re-voir.com

2022.12.20

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PERSPECTIVAS FEMINISTAS. UNA NUEVA GRAMÁTICA FEMENINA EN EL CINE

Por Malena Martínez

El primer foro del evento Una nueva gramática femenina en el cine ha llenado la sala del Stadtkino de Viena. Un grupo de mujeres del cine europeo reflexionan en esta ciudad sobre esta peliaguda pregunta – que como las que valen la pena están hechas en primera persona (plural): How brainwashed we are?

2022.11.21