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CINEMATIC LETTERS TO WUHAN AND BEIRUT: INTER-IMAGES OF A MNEMONIC RIVER AND AFTER-IMAGES FROM A MEMORY BOX

By Dina Pokrajac

Letters have been sent and received since antiquity. But what is the relation of the epistolary practice to cinema? Is every film an open letter inventing its addressee or is it a missive intended for a very specific reader? If the epistle is a form of documenting the past, can it truly capture the exquisite intricacy of its repressed insinuations and remerging indications, or is it merely “rescuing” the banal and otherwise soon to be forgotten fragments of our quotidian?

2021.04.03

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CRYSTAL Z CAMPBELL: FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE @ HARNETT GALERY

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

One of the most impressive achievements of the curational experience is the dynamics of hybridity between the curator and the artist. Some of the most stimulating experiences of the gallery, museum, online platform, come alive when this dynamic channels the real interest for the artist in a collaboration that merges efforts not only for a platform of exhibition, but with a collaborative effort when the artist is allowed to roam free through innovative experiences of the aesthetic experience, aided skillfully by a professional whose effort involves the formal act of creation.

2021.03.19

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BERLIN CRITIC’S WEEK: A LOOK AT ITS DOUBLE PROGRAMS

By Monica Delgado

A new (online) edition of Berlin Critic’s Week (Woche der Kritik) took place from March 7 to 27. Woche der Kritik is organized annually by the German Film Critics Association (Verband der deutschen Filmkritik), within the framework of the Berlinale, in order to contribute to the debate on cinema.

2021.03.15

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THE HUMAN BEING IN HIS DARKEST CONDITION – ABOUT IMAI TADASHI

by Claudia Siefen-Leitich

In his films, people are at the center of events – as one reluctantly and often reads about directors. Except that in his case it is true. Imai Tadashi (1912-1991), the people-watcher. From a naïve enthusiasm for suffering, whether this arose from poverty or illness, he developed an intense preoccupation with this unchanging point of view.

2021.02.21

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DESISTFILM ROUND-UP: BEST OF 2020/ LO MEJOR DEL 2020

After counting all the votes from our different friends, staff and collaborators from around the world, these are the best films of 2020:

2020.12.30

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DESISTFILM 2020 FILM ROUND-UP: THE LISTS/LAS LISTAS

2020 comes to an end, and with it, a great twist of the screw that seems to return the world to a primitive state, to recognize its own fragility and the precariousness of an economic / social system that falls like a house of cards. In the midst of chaos, at home, we take refuge in the light pulses of the cinema, in the rhythmic variations, in the echo of the sounds of our televisions, computers, screens. This is the record of a cinephilia that resists, that remains and reinvents itself. Within the chaos, the light of the cinema continues to shine on us.

2020.12.30

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JAMES ELLROY

by Claudia Siefen-Leitich

How it is all about rhythm and how the austrian film director Reinhard Jud braught us that very special one with his doucmentary film about the american writer James Ellroy.

2020.11.23

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SKULLS MADE TO CRACK: THE POLITICS OF NORTHERN IRISH CINEMA

By Paddy Mulholland

In the spirit of the later turning point of 1998, in that near-comically optimistic decade for the West, the narrative shifted momentously and purposefully. All efforts were put toward ending the conflict – bygones had to be bygones now, forgiveness had to be no longer sought but unconditionally proffered, the buzzword became “reconciliation.”

2020.11.23

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FREEDOM OF BODY AND SOUL: TWO FILMS BY CECILIA BENGOLEA AND CHRISTELLE LHEUREUX

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Two 2020 films I saw which were decidedly different from one another but shared a common element that made them exceptionally good and drove me to write a piece about them (in this series of impossible dialogues between films I am planning to do) were the dance/coreography documentary Shelly Belly Inna Real Life by Argentinian filmmaker, dancer and choreographer Cecilia Bengolea and 80,000 ans, a dreamlike split screen film by Christelle Lheureux.

2020.10.19

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RABBIT’S MOON: A BRIEF BUT CONSEQUENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN BRAKHAGE AND ANGER

By Joe Miller

The James Stanley Brakhage Collection at the University of Colorado Libraries offers researchers a spectacular opening scene; seven folders into Box 1, the files of his correspondence with Kenneth Anger begin, and they continue far into box two – dozens of fat folders stuffed with densely typed letters and handwritten notes spanning 30 years of friendship, much of it on Anger’s cool pentagram or pyramid-and-flying-saucer stationary.

2020.09.27