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  • Still from the documentary Seven Years in May by Affonso Uchoa
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 11-13-2019
    • Featured
    Written on the Body: New Documentaries from Feras Fayyad and Affonso Uchoa
    Two recent films explore the presence of the body in the documentary form. When the Syrian director Feras Fayyad decided to film Amani Ballor, the young manager of a hospital in Ghouta, not far from Damascus, he asked his cinematographers, Mohammad...
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  • Still from LINA FROM LIMA, a film by the Chilean director María Paz González, one of the women and Global South director at TIFF
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 09-1-2019
    • Featured
    Women and Global South Directors at Toronto International Film Festival TIFF
    Women and Global South directors who are bringing their films to this year's Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) include Barbara Kopple (the acclaimed American documentary director of Harlan County, who returns with a new documentary film, Desert One, "the true story behind...
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  • Film Still from Double Blind by Sophie Calle
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 08-12-2019
    • Featured
    Did Sophie Calle Always Rock?
    I have a thing for Sophie Calle. So does my husband. Since we've known her photographs we have been fascinated by her lurking, stalking style and secretive subject matter. Calle is a voyeur, but the thing is -- her photographs...
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  • Parasite by Global South filmmaker - Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 05-27-2019
    • Featured
    Best Global South Films in Cannes
    It was a great moment for films from Latin America and the Global South in Cannes. Among our favorites--and the nearly unanimous critical favorite--is PARASITE, by the South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho. PARASITE is one of those hugely popular films...
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  • Cummins in noir Gun Crazy
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 04-22-2019
    • Featured
    Film Noir Deadly Women
    Film noir can be an unforgiving genre, populated with female characters who are either one-dimensional femme fatales or mere appendices in the cat-and-mouse private-detective chases. But then there's another breed of film noir women: Beautiful and brainy, challenging, outspoken and...
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  • Still from Bring Me The Head of Carmen M.
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 01-23-2019
    • Featured
    Future Bodies and the Tired Ghost of Carmen Miranda: Brazilian Cinema at Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes
    My stay in Tiradentes, Minas, where the 22nd edition of Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes, is still taking place, was brief. And yet, it was enough to sense the intensity, both of the films and the debates, which I associate...
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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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