By Nicholas Vroman
Helmut Dosantos’ Gods of Mexico (Dioses de Mexico, 2022) is a startlingly inventive ethnographic meditation on indigenous communities in Mexico. The film is divided into 3 sections – a fourth if you happen to be able to see the longer version at the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City (as explained in the interview).
Por Katy Montoya
Naomi Uman es conocida por su cine experimental y cine intervenido, como Removed (1999) y Hand-Eye Coordination (2002). Sus reflexiones acerca de la mirada sobre los cuerpos de las mujeres son críticas sin caer en una postura antipornográfica simplista o sin tratar al deseo de ver el cuerpo femenino como un gesto masculino. Otros segmentos de su obra pueden caracterizarse por un impulso de llegar tanto al mundo como a su propio interior y verse vulnerable.
By Nicholas Vroman
Jorge Cuchí’s first feature film, 50 (or Two Whales Meet on the Beach) snagged a trifecta of awards at the 2021 Morelia International Film Festival – The Ojo Award for Best Mexican Feature Film along with Best Actress and Actor awards. A former advertising industry maven, Cuchí, unenthused by a future promoting products, turned to his first love, cinema, to create stories and engage in issues that had much more importance to him.
por José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Mato Seco em Chamas, (filme del año en Desistfilm) es una película que trae cierta factura particularmente de América Latina, lejos de las convenciones occidentales de la filmación cinematográfica. Desde su misma concepción -un trabajo de ficción etnográfica documental de ciencia ficción que se alimenta de tropos del western-, Queirós y Pimenta plantean una forma de filmar que se alimenta de la representación de los cuerpos y la memoria colectiva.
Por Mónica Delgado
La revista de crítica de cine argentina La vida útil publicó hace algunas semanas el libro Una luz revelada: El cine experimental argentino, escrito por el cineasta, docente y crítico de cine Pablo Marín. Se trata de una obra que propone un acercamiento a films y acontecimientos del cine experimental argentino, con el fin de aportar a un campo de reflexión, que genera correspondencias, conexiones y puntos de fuga.
Por Alejandra Meneses
Después de Matar a Jesús, la directora colombiana Laura Mora estrenó su segundo largometraje Los reyes del mundo, película ganadora de la Concha de Oro a ‘Mejor película’ en el Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián. En esta conversación, la realizadora comparte un poco del viaje entre la violencia y la poesía de Los reyes del mundo, cinco jóvenes que van a reclamar una tierra en el Bajo Cauca colombiano.
By Víctor Paz Morandeira
American filmmaker Bette Gordon was in the spotlight in 2020 due to the recent restoration of her cult film Variety (1983), which found an obstacle in its way to theaters in the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately Play-Doc International Film Festival (Tui, Spain) gave us the opportunity this year to discover this gem on the big screen. The story depicts the life of a young woman who works in a porn theater in Manhattan selling tickets. Not only does the film subvert the traditional idea of female representation, but it also shows hidden unconventional human landscapes of New York by having the protagonist follow a mysterious client around the city. Gordon inverts the Madeleine-like stereotype of the beauty that exists only for the pleasure of the male gaze in a very playful way, delivering a feminist film – profoundly influenced by Laura Mulvey’s essays put into practice – that does not feel militant at all.
By Tomáš Hudák
Despite film becoming a predominantly digital medium in the 21st century, photochemical film has not disappeared completely. There is still a vibrant scene of experimental cinema around it that doesn’t value analogue film for its past glories but focuses on how it can speak to our present and help us reflect on contemporary issues like climate change. Newly established artist-run labs and collectives are therefore not only an expression of artistic ambitions or aesthetical priorities, but can be understood as part of wider social and political movements.
By José Sarmiento and Mónica Delgado
As part of the recent edition of the Al Este de Lima festival, the Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner gave a masterclass, where she delved into her work before a Peruvian audience. In this framework, we were able to talk with her about her motivations, her staging and her female leading characters.
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Decoding Courtney Stephens’ work is an apt term for the ideological (the ideological as the immanent referent of the platonic realm) transit involved in being presented with her films. Indeed, being a spectator of films like Mixed Signals or Ida Western Exile, implies being open to the multiple poetic relations between signifier and signified, a process that achieves a particular transcendence through contemplation and montage.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
ISSN 2311-7451
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