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  • FICValdivia: Still from Toda La Luz Que Podamos Ver by Pablo Escoto Luna
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 10-15-2020
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    Altered States: Latin American Highlights from the FICValdivia International Competition
    FICValdivia's International Competition has stood out in the past few years that I've been following it for jettisoning in the main slate the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Also for championing bold cinematic language and storytelling that don't rush to...
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  • Still from the archive-based film, THE PINK INDIAN AGAINST THE INVISIBLE BEAST: NOEL NUTELS’ BATTLE
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 10-13-2020
    • Featured
    Olhar de Cinema / Curitiba International Film Festival: Unveiling the Archives
    This year, the international film festival Olhar de Cinema, based in Curitiba, Brazil, presents a number of fascinating archive-based films. Among them, there is Fakir, by Helena Ignez, The Pink Indian Against the Invisible Beast: Noel Nutels' Battle, by Tiago Carvalho,...
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  • Still from Márta Mészáro's DON'T CRY, PRETTY GIRLS!, part of Berwick Film Festival
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 10-6-2020
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    Essential Cinema: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
    Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival has followed most film festivals this year in moving its edition online. Barring some geo-blocking, about which one can never be entirely sure, it's a great opportunity for viewers who may not have been...
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  • Still from Ephraim Asili's The Inheritance (2020)
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 09-17-2020
    • Featured
    TIFF: Radical Experience to Knowledge in 40 Years a Prisoner and The Inheritance
    Tommy Oliver's 40 Years a Prisoner and Ephraim Asili's The Inheritance, which both premiered at TIFF, in the Documentary and Wavelengths sections, center on the Black American revolutionary experience. Both films use rich archival footage, albeit deployed differently, in a more...
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  • Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert's Never Gonna Snow Again
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 09-13-2020
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    TIFF Diary: Malgorzata Szumowska’s Never Gonna Snow Again and Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby
    Magdalena Szumowska, the Polish born filmmaker who's been making movies since the late 1990s, and Emma Seligman, the American director whose debut feature was slated for SXSW and played at TIFF, have both delivered two of probably most jarringly memorable...
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  • TIFF Film Diary: Miwa Nishikawa's Under the Open Sky
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 09-11-2020
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    TIFF Diary: Distant Screens, Shorts and a Stirring Prison Drama from Miwa Nishikawa
    Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has begun, though for many of us it means spending hours at our computers or before projection screens. I miss being physically present at the festival. About now I'd be scrambling to find enough hours...
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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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