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THE MESMERIST BY BILL MORRISON/ PSALM III: NIGHT OF THE MEEK BY PHIL SOLOMON

Por Nicolás Carrasco

A inicios de la década pasada, dos cineastas experimentales reflexionaron sobre la memoria del Holocausto a partir de material fílmico muy deteriorado, proveniente de películas anteriores al ascenso del fascismo en Alemania. Estas películas de género se adelantaron a los sentimientos de miedo, inseguridad y desesperación de esos años trágicos, reflejando el sentir de toda una generación de europeos. Estos cineastas fueron los norteamericanos Bill Morrison y Phil Solomon.

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2014.03.11
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ON LATENT FEMININITY: TWO FILMS OF DENIS COTÉ

By Petra Popovic

While less mysterious than their predecessors, the last two productions were shocking nevertheless. Unlike the others, they no longer bear witness to a common thread in Côté’s body of work, a core concept arching through all his previous films.

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2014.03.09
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SPACE/TIME AND WORRIES BY KEN JACOBS

By Lauren Bliss

Space/Time and Worries is kind of Jacobs on Jacobs, where he curates a screening of his works for an audience at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. The video is uploaded to Vimeo and is thus filtered through the lens of the institutional push for the convenience and innovation of the lecture-at-home; however the images appear as though they had been properly screened in a cinema, somehow the laptop and Internet browser do not detract from the viewing experience. This may be because Jacobs’ instrument of choice is the image itself.

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2014.03.08
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PANORAMA: LA BATAILLE DE SOLFÉRINO BY JUSTINE TRIET

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.

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2013.11.19
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PANORAMA: SOFT IN THE HEAD BY NATHAN SILVER

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.

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2013.11.11
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PANORAMA: THE SELFISH GIANT BY CLIO BARNARD

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.

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2013.11.06