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by :Ela Bittencourt
04-26-2018
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On the occasion of the Brazilian hybrid film, Baronesa, playing in the Art of the Real showcase at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Lyssaria reprints a fragment of Ela Bittencourt's essay, entitled Love In Times of Hunger: On Glauber...

by :Ela Bittencourt
04-25-2018
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The profane and the sublime in the films of Ozualdo Candeias

The figure of a prostitute emerged forcefully in various cinemas novos. The “fallen woman” isn’t an invention of the 1960s, of course, far from it. She is biblical, as native as original sin; she traverses world literature, from The Middle...

by :Ela Bittencourt
04-7-2018
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Redefining Women: The Films of Laura Huertas Millán

In Colombian filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán’s short, La Libertad (2017), the image of colorful yarns repeatedly crosses the screen. The yarns are part of a pre-Hispanic weaving technique, introduced by indigenous peoples, and still practiced by Mexican women. The yarns...

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