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Ismael Caneppele's Music For When the Lights Go Out

by :Ela Bittencourt
06-18-2018
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Cinema Tropical, New York's top organization dedicated to promoting Latin American cinema, has announced Verão in New York summer program of Brazilian films, including LGBTQ Brazil, curated by Ela Bittencourt: "On July 28 and 29, Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI)...

by :Ela Bittencourt
06-1-2018
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Animal Killers: Ecology, Feminism and Horror in Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor

Agnieszka Holland and Kasia Adamik’s Silver Bear winning feature, Spoor (2017)—an adaptation of the novel, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Polish novelist and Booker Prize winner, Olga Tokarczuk—doesn’t strictly follow a single genre. Part crime...

by :Ela Bittencourt
05-24-2018
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Agnès Varda Manifesto: One Sings, the Other Doesn’t

For a manifesto film, and Agnès Varda’s One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (L’une chante, l’autre pas, 1977), certainly is one, it is also strikingly nuanced. That it’s a manifesto was never a secret—Vincent Canby noted as much in The New...

by :Ela Bittencourt
04-26-2018
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Love in Times of Hunger: Baronesa

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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