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    • 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...
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    • 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...
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    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 04-15-2018
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    Pablo Escoto
    Since RUINAS TU REINO premiered in 2017 at FICUNAM, in Mexico, where it won the main prize for Mexican cinema, I have exchanged a number of emails with Pablo Escoto. We began by quoting and discussing the conversation that Pablo...
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    • 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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    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 04-7-2018
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    Affonso Uchoa
    “Beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella.” – Comte de Lautréamont, via Affonso Uchoa Interview with Affonso Uchoa, director of The Hidden Tiger, and Arábia (voted one of the best films of 2017, Sight &...
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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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