By Tristan Teshigahara
The reconstructive collage films of Abigail Child do not inject themselves with political context, docufiction form, or profound cinematic meaning.
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Independent filmmaker Justine Triet, better known for her last shot Vilaine Fille Mauvais Garçon (2012) (which had a good run at Berlinale and a Cesar Award nomination) makes her debut feature film, called Age of Panic (The Battle of Solferino), in which the spheres of the private and the public collapse equally in an interesting parallel route, which depicts the days of the Sarkozy/Hollande election, a breaking point for French internal politics.
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Thanks to The Idiot reads the final closing credits of Nathan Silver last feature Soft in the Head and one can’t help but recalling the Dostoveskian tale of absurdity, chaos and turmoil of a man with good intentions and the consequences his behavior sparks around him and the people who surround him.
By Claudia Siefen Listen, the wind will whip up, and you will feel the knife cutting into your lower arm. The body as a living organism
By Claudia Siefen
A group of spectators form a rolling road-block while two trotting horses, with sulkies and riders, run a fast race on a public highway and large sums of money exchange hands. In Road Race, (2004) the director questions the aspiration of documentary to collapse the distance between reality and representation. An amazing artwork because of its energy and brutality and the unusual twist and thoughts behind it.
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa Following the lives of young Yingying and her smaller siblings, left alone for months without parents and coping with survival and hard
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa The Wayúu indigenous community, a hidden village on the Guajira peninsula somewhere along the Colombian/Venezuelan border, is one of the thousands of
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa Preceded by good comments and reviews, this adaptation of Roberto Bolaño‘s «Una Novelita Lumpen» (the last novel he published in life) even arrived with
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Jacques (William Hurt) and Mado (Alexandra Lamy) are a couple who loses their child tragically in an accident and gets separated because of a destructive mourning process. After leaving to America to restart his life, Jacques gets reunited with her former wife, returning to France to handle his father succession. There, he’ll meet her 7 year-old son of a new marriage, Paul, and a succession of obsessive and morose passages will lead to disaster.
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
It should not become as a surprise that Gustav Deutsch(Vienna, 1952), better known from his work with found footage of obscure sources, had decided to do a film about Edward Hopper’s paintings, recreating the story of Shirley’s (a fictional lead character) personal life through the 30’s to the 60’s. “I am interested in the meaning that is given by the image”1, were his words about Film Ist. a Girl & a Gun, and that reflection could easily land in fertile ground when referring to this latest film. Shirley: Visions of Reality, it’s probably 2013’s definitive masterpiece, a film which digs deep into Hopper’s universe and uses it to spark a story which speaks about an era, its politics, its mood but more importantly, an intimate personal journal through one of America’s most convulsed periods.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
ISSN 2311-7451
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