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by :Ela Bittencourt
10-7-2018
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Art of Estrangement: Sky Hopinka, Jodie Mack and Courtney Stephens in NYFF Projections

Sky Hopinka has been making films on the cusp of documentary and visual arts that delve into the philosophical questions of language, cultural identity, free will and representation. His new short, Fainting Spells, is an amalgam of a string-of-consciousness monologue, addressed...

by :Ela Bittencourt
10-4-2018
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Janie Geiser and Erica Beckman in NYFF Projections

Janie Geiser and Ericka Beckman are among the most exciting contemporary American artists working on the border of performance, collage, stop-motion animation and experimental film. Both have long-standing careers in the arts, and are associated with the Los Angeles art...

Ismael Caneppele's Music For When the Lights Go Out

by :Ela Bittencourt
07-28-2018
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Ismael Caneppele on Prize Winning Music For When The Lights Go Out

Ismael Caneppele's Music For When the Lights Go Out plays in the LGBTQ Brazil film program at the Museum of the Moving Image, on Saturday, July 28, at 2pm, co-presented by Cinema Tropical. Winner of Art Doc award at Sheffield Doc...

Passionate drawings of Brazilian artist José Leonilson

by :Ela Bittencourt
07-16-2018
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Carlos Nader on Passionate Drawings of Artist José Leonilson

Passionate drawings of Brazilian artist José Leonilson, as well as his installation art, are the subject of Carlos Nader's uniquely immersive hybrid documentary, JL's Passion (2015), winner of the Best Documentary Prize at É Tudo Verdade / It's All International...

by :Ela Bittencourt
07-11-2018
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Cinemas of Underdevelopment: Djibril Diop Mambéty

Djibril Diop Mambéty included children in all his films, yet his work is exquisitely, brazenly adult. Since I saw the Mambéty retrospective at the Olhar de Cinema International Film Festival in Curitiba, Brazil, the context that immediately imposed itself was...

by :Ela Bittencourt
06-26-2018
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Arábia: Brazilian Cinema at the Dusk of Lula

Over three years ago, when I had just arrived in Brazil, I asked a family friend who’s a journalist why São Paulo's conservative papers were in such an uproar over Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula wasn’t president. Did the...

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