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  • Still from the debut film, A Bagful of Fleas, by Vera Chytilová
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 04-22-2021
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    Where to start with Vera Chytilová
    I have such an intense admiration for Vera Chytilová's work that it's almost impossible for me to see her belonging exclusively to cinema history. Her experimental surrealist film, Daisies (1966), made during the brief period of political "thawing" in the...
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  • Girl Anger in Looking for Venera
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 02-6-2021
    • Featured
    Ripples of Girl Anger: International Film Festival Rotterdam
    I've been loving films centered on girl anger. I'm sure that as a tentative grouping, it isn't anything new. Nevertheless, one can't help noticing -- and appreciating -- when a new crop of movies, such as Jessie Barr's Sophie Jones...
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  • IFFR Tiger Competition film Bipolar
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 02-5-2021
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    Taking Risks: First Look at IFFR Tiger Competition
    I'm coming to the first slate of films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) directly from the digital viewings at the Sundance Film Festival (that alone quite a privilege, though necessitated by the pandemic; normally, critics find themselves having...
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  • A still from Downstream to Kinhasa, one of the films from Africa which plays at international festivals in 2020
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 12-21-2020
    • Featured
    2020 Highlights: Films from Lesotho, Senegal and Democratic Republic of Congo
    This month The Criterion Channel has unveiled an ambitious slate of Afro-Futurist Cinema, curated by Ashley Clark, which includes both films by directors from various countries in Africa and by African-American directors. It seems like a good moment to also...
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  • Women directors as seen in the still from Jessie Barr's Sophie Jones
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 12-16-2020
    • Featured
    Mar del Plata International Film Festival: A Good Year for Indie Women Directors
    Mar del Plata International Film Festival is the culmination of what I think we can say has been a good year for indie women directors, despite it being overall an impossibly difficult year, with so many films not getting wider...
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  • Still from Odoriko Yoichiro Okutani
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 11-23-2020
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    Dream of Women’s Collectivity: ODORIKO by Yoichiro Okutani
    Watching Odoriko, the splendid immersive documentary by the Japanese director Yoichiro Okutani, I kept asking myself what was being left out of the picture. Okutani's compassionate camera observes the women who work at a Japanese striptease theater, performing at times elaborate,...
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Cinema & Beyond

Latest Essays by Ela Bittencourt

  1. A still from M. Woods's Bedford Cheese, in which we see a digitally manipulated image that looks like an abstract expressionist painting; the film was in the roundup of Flaherty NYC film program
    5 Apr 2021
    March & April 2021
  2. Still from Itonje Soimer Guttormsen’s Gritt, which played in the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), part of my festival roundup
    3 Mar 2021
    January & February 2021
  3. Image from the group show Nuestra América, at Galeria Luisa Strina, on which I wrote one of the essays for Artforum - the neon image reads, "Oswaldo de Andrade, Volta!" / "Oswaldo de Andrade, Come Back!"
    1 Jan 2021
    November & December 2020
  4. Watercolor from the artist Lucia Nogueira's Inferno, in a solo show at Luisa Strina Gallery, an excerpt
    5 Oct 2020
    September & October 2020
  5. A still from Paulo Rocha's The Green Years, a cinematic drama
    5 Aug 2020
    July & August 2020
  6. Still from Breakwater, an LGBTQ+ short by Cris Lyra
    27 Jul 2020
    Streaming: LGBTQ+ Cinema
  7. Still from Latin American director Paula Gaitán's Light in the Tropics
    14 Mar 2020
    Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded
  8. Still from Joanna Reposi Garibaldi’s documentary, Lemebel, featured in Latin American Cinema Showcase
    11 Feb 2020
    Neighboring Scenes: Latin American Showcase
  9. RED LIGHT BANDIT (1968) by Rogério Sganzerla
    19 Nov 2019
    Sganzerla’s Gangster Modernity
  10. Still from Luis Ospina's mockumentary A PAPER TIGER
    5 Nov 2019
    The Legacy of Luis Ospina
  11. The Sly Humor of Martín Rejtman: Magic Gloves
    21 Oct 2019
    Sly Humor of Martín Rejtman
  12. Still from Jeannette Muñoz's Puchuncavi in Jeannette Muñoz: Cinema as an Open Letter
    21 Jul 2019
    Jeannette Muñoz: Cinema as an...
  13. Macario by Robert Gavaldón
    25 Apr 2019
    Roberto Gavaldón’s Mortal Visions
  14. Alejandro Fadel’s horror, Murder Me, Monster from Neighboring Scenes Festival
    22 Feb 2019
    Neighboring Scenes 2019
  15. Still from Gabriel Martins and Maurílio Martin's In the Heart of the World premiered at Latin American Movies at International Film Festival Rotterdam
    10 Feb 2019
    Latin American Movies at IFFR
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