FIC17 Catalogo
FIC17 Catalogo
FIC17 Catalogo
PRESENTACIN
7
JURADO
23
PREMIOS
31
IMAGEN FICUNAM 7
33
INAUGURACIN
37
COMPETENCIA INTERNACIONAL
41
AHORA MXICO
67
MANIFIESTO CONTEMPORNEO
113
EL PORVENIR
137
CLSICOS RESTAURADOS
263
FUNCIONES ESPECIALES
269
CLAUSURA
281
ACTIVIDADES ACADMICAS:
CTEDRA INGMAR BERGMAN
EN CINE Y TEATRO
CLASES MAGISTRALES
FORO DE LA CRTICA PERMANENTE
TALLER
285-309
CONTACTOS
314
AGRADECIMIENTOS
328
DIRECTORIO
330
Table of Contents
Introductory Remarks
7
JURY
23
Awards
31
Image FICUNAM 7
33
Opening
37
Contemporary Manifesto
113
The Forthcoming
137
RESTORED CLASSICS
263
Special Features
269
Closing
281
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
Ingmar Bergman Chair on
Film & Theater
Master Classes
Permanent Critique Forum
Workshop
285-309
CONTACTS
314
Film Index
322
Directors Index
326
acknowledgments
328
Index
330
PRESENTACIN
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
FICUNAM
2017
FICUNAM offer is in line with the vertiginous times we live; films pre-
sented in the Festival are not only enjoyable to their viewers, they
also increase the audiences points of view in terms of interpreta-
tion, study, and learning. This is why the Festival has established
8 itself through filmic high-quality and it is one of the few existing win-
dows through which we can seeas well as feel and experience
a cinematic style not easily found or promoted elsewhere. Seven
years is not a lot; however, this span of time has been enough for
FICUNAM to consolidate its stance, its path, in the face of domestic
and international filmic creation.
It is within this context that the UNAM International Film Festival was
born in 2011. And thus, this young Festival has amassed experience
and awareness through a programming which reaffirms the Festivals
quality and the overwhelming filmic knowledge of those who work
together to make the Festival possible.
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Dr. Jorge Volpi
Coordinador de Difusin Cultural
UNAM
Always at the
forefront of the
avant-garde trends,
FICUNAM offers new filmic
narratives from far-away
territories and
broadens
Seven years after its inception, the UNAM Interna- our vision
tional Film Festival reaffirms and consolidates its ~
avant-garde and innovative spirit by showing the
newest in domestic and international auteur-cine-
ma trends. There will be retrospectives showing the work of hugely valuable filmmakers
who are nonetheless little known within our borders; and in its three competing sec-
tionsInternational, Mexican, and Feats. International Schools Meetingwe will be of-
fered a panoramic view on new filmmakers in search for a filmic language of their own.
Our filmic knowledge will also be broadened with the opportunities FICUNAM offers
in association with other institutionsin terms of filmic analysis and criticism through
forums and contests, as well as masterclasses and workshops.
And to show the work related to the preservation of film archives, this edition offers
us a program made of 16-mm documentaries which are part of the collection of
Filmoteca UNAM. This selection is a sample of the way this format was appropriated in
our country by filmmakers who, in the 1970s and the 1980s, focused on making visible
Mexicos social problems.
Guadalupe Ferrer
12 General Director
Filmic Activities & Film Archives
UNAM
El FICUNAM,
siempre a la vanguardia,
nos propone nuevas narrativas
cinematogrficas de
territorios lejanos,
y ampla nuestra visin
A 7 aos de su creacin, el Festival Inter- ~
nacional de Cine UNAM reafirma y conso-
lida su espritu vanguardista y propositivo
al mostrar las tendencias contemporneas cinematogrficas de
autores nacionales e internacionales. Presenta retrospectivas de
cineastas de gran valor poco conocidos en nuestro territorio, y
en sus tres secciones de competencia: Internacional, Mexicana y
Aciertos. Encuentro Internacional de Escuelas de Cine, veremos un
panorama de nuevos realizadores en la bsqueda de un lenguaje
propio.
Guadalupe Ferrer
Directora General
Actividades Cinematogrficas y Filmoteca 13
UNAM
FICUNAM
natural window to showcase
many filmic productions CUEC & FICUNAMSomething Already
made by CUEC Happened & Will Keep on Happening.
graduates
~ The convergence between art teaching
and art promotion must always be
celebrated. The ultimate goal of
a cultural object is the encounter
between creators and their audience; it is only when meaning is reinvented in the
recipientreaders, viewers, audiencesthat we can talk about an aesthetic experience,
or about shaking the consciousness of the other. For filmmakers, this relationship has
never been an easy one.
With the support of UNAM, FICUNAM emerged This year, FICUNAM offers an approach to the work
in 2011 to create a space open to independent of German filmmaker Angela Schanelec; also,
cinema and innovative work. This event has found there will be a revision of some films by Brazilian
its focal point among an audience of university Luiz Rosemberg Filho, and Italian Yuri Ancarani.
students and film buffs in Mexico City, but it has All of these will undoubtedly be of great interest
also managed to broaden its scope and reach for the Mexican audience.
over 12 states in Mexicosuch as Oaxaca,
Quertaro, and Michoacn, among othersto We congratulate FICUNAM in its seventh edition,
show a selection of its program through the may its renewing spirit endure.
FICUNAM Tour.
FICUNAM naci en 2011 con el apoyo de la Este ao, FICUNAM ofrece un acercamiento al
Mxima Casa de Estudios, para crear un espacio trabajo de la cineasta alemana Angela Schanelec;
abierto a un cine independiente y trabajos tambin se podrn revisar algunos films del
innovadores. Es un certamen que ha encontrado brasileo Luiz Rosemberg Filho y del italiano Yuri
su epicentro en el pblico universitario y en los Ancarani, muestras que sin duda resultarn de
cinfilos de la Ciudad de Mxico, pero tambin gran inters para la audiencia en Mxico.
ha logrado ampliar su rango de accin en
ms de doce estados del pas, como Oaxaca, Felicitamos a FICUNAM en su sptima edicin y
Quertaro, Michoacn, entre otros, a travs de que perdure su aliento renovador.
la Gira FICUNAM, para mostrar una seleccin de
su programacin.
Jorge Snchez Sosa
Director General
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografa
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one of the
essential film festivals in Mexico,
and undoubtedly a reference
in terms of avant-garde
international cinema
Intrinsically, film festivals are places were ~
filmmakers, film buffs, critics, and people with a
general curiosity towards cinema gather. Films
summon and invite, thats a fact. The mere act
of collectively watching a filmregardless of its
genre, country, or stylebecomes an enriching experience. But
when such experience is carefully curated to offer a variety of
narrative discourses, represented countries, styles, and generations,
to a collective of viewers, and when it also includes dialogues with
filmic creators on their creative processes and with critics who offer
elements to enjoy cinema from different points of view, then such
experience becomes not only enriching but also a transforming one.
And thats what FICUNAM has achieved during its previous six
editions, in which it established itself as one of the essential film
festivals in Mexico, and undoubtedly a reference in terms of avant-
garde international cinema. At the Ingmar Bergman Chair, we are
proud to be part of the festival and to collaborate in the organization
of the Permanent Critics Forum and the Masterclasses. The results
achieved until now show this formula is a powerful one and bears
fruits in terms of educating new audiences, as well as newand
more inquisitive and demandingcritics.
We admire the tenacity FICUNAM has shown to This year, we will present the fifth edition of the
maintain its quality, its profile, and its credibility Permanent Critics Forum and we will focus on
through constantly challenging viewers. In each cinema, critique, and history, on the challenges
edition, we are surprised with films which bring to and changes digital cinema has brought, espe-
attention artist previously unknown in our country cially in relation to the way the history of this mov-
and open our horizon in terms of filmic possibilities. ing-image art is told. We will also present, as we
Thanks to the FICUNAM Tour program, this effort had done in previous years, masterclasses given
reaches other areas of our country and of our by those special guests who come to the presen-
18 University, multiplying thus the festivals reach. tation of their retrospectives.
Abril Alzaga
Executive Coordinator
Ingmar Bergman Chair on Film & Theater, UNAM
uno de los festivales
obligados de Mxico y
referencia, sin duda,
Los festivales de cine son per se un espacio de sobre el cine de
encuentro, de cineastas, de cinfilos, de crticos vanguardia
y de curiosos. Es un hecho que el cine convoca internacional
y provoca. Tan solo el acto de ver una pelcula ~
en colectivo se convierte en una experiencia en-
riquecedora, no importa de qu gnero, pas o
estilo. Pero si esa experiencia es programada
cuidadosamente para ofrecer al colectivo de es-
pectadores una variedad de discursos narrativos,
pases representados, estilos y generaciones; si adems est arro-
pada por dilogos con los creadores sobre sus procesos creati-
vos as como crticos que aportan elementos para disfrutar desde
distintos lugares el cine, se convierte no solo en una experiencia
enriquecedora, sino tambin en una experiencia transformadora.
Abril Alzaga 19
Coordinadora Ejecutiva
Ctedra Ingmar Bergman en
Cine y Teatro, UNAM
LOS LMITES DE NUESTRO
CINE
THE LIMITS OF OUR CINEMA
FICUNAM may pretend,
with its small contribution,
to tear down the barriers
of ideologies and
This is the seventh year of the festival, and intolerance
it cannot be otherwise than a lucky edition. ~
I dont pretend to aspire to the perfection
of such number; however, the time passed has allowed us to reap
the results of the work accomplished, and it has consolidated the
premises of the festivals beginnings. Somehow, the spirit and the
commitment of the cinema programmed at FICUNAM is continuing
to feed the aesthetic and political intention of a proposal which
recognizes the legacy of those great authors who have been
featured through our previous six editions: Jean Eustache, Jonas
Mekas, Harun Farocki, Edward Yang, Masao Adachi, Apichatpong
Weerasethakul, Carlos Mayolo, Sergei Loznitsa, Artavazd Peleshyan,
Darezhan Omirbayev, Otar Iosseliani, Gustavo Fontan, just to
remember some of the film series weve hosted.
We confirm, thus, our duty towards a marginal Thus, traversing the different sections of the
cinema; not in the sense of this word meaning program, title after title we find correspondences
secondary, but, rather, in the sense of on the that represent the interconnected world of our
fringe of commercial production, where critical contemporary times, which cannot remain locked
thought, cultural complexity, and artistic expression in their own surroundings. FICUNAM may pretend,
are built. Marginal also in terms of its subjects, in with its small contribution, to tear down the
the sense that the program for this year seems to barriers of ideologies and intolerance and share
20 connect films through the questioning of the limits the avant-garde spirit of its program towards
of our physical and ideological world. Its about establishing a reality more in consonance with the
exploring cultural (and religious) spheres, about one we imagine.
questioning definitions of identity (and gender
and sexuality), of territorial, social, and political Eva Sangiorgi
belonging. Likewise, this cinema crosses borders Director
in terms of filmic appreciation, as well as in UNAM International Film Festival
relation to the comprehension of films, which is as
much an intellectual as a sensitive effort precisely
because it exploits all the possibilities of cinematic
suggestion and the strength of this language. It
shouldnt be necessary to say that we refuse to
be pigeon-holed in specific genres, filmic forms,
and formats.
FICUNAM quiz pretenda,
con su pequea aportacin,
derribar las barreras
de las ideologas y de la
intolerancia
~
Confirmamos, por lo tanto, el deber hacia un Por lo tanto, atravesando las distintas secciones
cine marginal, no en la acepcin de secundario, del programa, ttulo tras ttulo se encuentran
sino que a la orilla de la produccin comercial, correspondencias que representan el mundo
donde se construye el pensamiento crtico, la interconectado de nuestra poca contempornea,
complejidad cultural y la expresin artstica; que no puede quedarse encerrado en su propio
marginal tambin bajo una consideracin entorno. FICUNAM quiz pretenda, con su
temtica, en el sentido de que la programacin pequea aportacin, derribar las barreras de
de este ao parece conectar las pelculas a las ideologas y de la intolerancia, y compartir
travs de cuestionamientos alrededor de los el espritu de vanguardia de su propuesta
lmites de nuestro mundo fsico e ideolgico. de programacin hacia una realidad que se
Se trata de explorar los espacios culturales (y confunda cada vez ms con la que imaginamos.
religiosos), cuestionar definiciones de identidad
(y de gnero y sexualidad), de pertenencia Eva Sangiorgi
territorial, social y poltica. Asimismo, este Directora 21
cine cruza confines respecto a la apreciacin Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM
de las pelculas, a su entendimiento, que es
tanto intelectivo cuanto sensible, justo porque
explota todas las posibilidades de la sugestin
cinematogrfica y de la fuerza de su lenguaje. No
debera hacer falta decir que por supuesto se
rehsa al encasillamiento de gneros, formas y
formatos flmicos.
JURADO
COMPETENCIA INTERNACIONAL
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY
Gustavo Beck
Brasil Brazil
JURADO ACIERTOS
en Radio Frmula, y Mi cine, tu cine, en Canal
Once TV. Es miembro del comit de seleccin del
FICM y del comit de preseleccin de la Gira de
Documentales Ambulante. Ha escrito sobre cine
en GQ, Exclsior, Milenio Semanal, Frente, Tierra
Alonso Daz de la Vega Adentro, Butaca Ancha y Cuadrivio.
Mxico Mexico
He studied Journalism and was the first Mexican
critic selected to participate at Berlinale, of the
Berlin International Film Festival. He was also a
finalist in the First Film Critic Contest organized
by Cineteca Nacional, in Mexico. He publishes
film-critique texts for the newspaper El Universal,
and also works for the radio program Por la
maana, hosted by Ciro Gmez Leyva, and the TV
program Mi cine, tu cine, broadcasted by Canal
Once. He is a member of the selection committee
of the Morelia International Film Festival and of
the preselecting committee of the Ambulante
Documentary Tour. He has written about cinema
for GQ, Exclsior, Milenio Semanal, Frente, Tierra
Adentro, Butaca Ancha, and Cuadrivio.
COMPETENCIA MEXICANA
Premio Puma Mxico Mejor Pelcula
100 mil pesos MN + Escultura Puma de Plata
ACIERTOS.
ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ESCUELAS DE CINE
Premio Aciertos Mejor Cortometraje
35 mil pesos MN + Medalla Puma
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Puma Award, Best Film
100,000 pesos MXN + Silver Puma Statuette
Audience Award
FICUNAM Recognition
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MEXICAN COMPETITION
Mexican Puma Award, Best Film
100,000 pesos MXN + Silver Puma Statuette
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PREMIO SELECCIN TV UNAM
Competencia Mexicana
50 mil pesos MN + la transmisin de la pelcula ganadora en TV UNAM durante los siguientes 18 meses
del festival (se podrn emitir hasta dos veces durante ese periodo).
Descuento del 50% en la contratacin de un seguro de filmacin para la realizacin del prximo
proyecto del ganador. Este proyecto deber ser mexicano o colombiano. Si es extranjero, deber
realizarse necesariamente en Mxico en un lapso de mximo tres aos y con un tope de 50 mil USD*.
*Aplica para cualquier proyecto audiovisual y lo puede hacer vlido el productor o director.
Mexican Competition
50,000 pesos MXN + up to two TV UNAM transmissions of the winning film, within an 18-month period
after the festival.
The Mexican Film Journalists Association will bestow the Warrior Press Award on the Best Mexican Film
of the 7th FICUNAM Edition.
Imagen FICUNAM 7
Image, FICUNAM 7
To talk about an image.
To talk about the image of something
it is not necessary to know it.
What is necessary is
to perceive it,
to have an intuition of it,
To talk about an image. To talk about the image of something it to feel it
is not necessary to know it. What is necessary is to perceive it, ~
to have an intuition of it, to feel it.
Since its fourth edition, FICUNAM has allowed for expert hands to materialize, in an
image, the essence of the festival. In 2014, this imagethe freedom of a flock of black-
and-white birdscame from Carlos Amorales pen; in its fifth edition, Dr. Lakra surprised
the festival by outlining it in an organic way. We forgot about symmetry, colors, and
fonts so foreign shapes and versatile shadows could define us; in the sixth edition,
Dr. Alderete touched our heart and, from the heart, multiple paths emerged to form a
character with eyes from which powerful beams sparkled.
This time, FICUNAM is honored to present its image delivered from the handsand
the generous heartof Felipe Ehrenberg, a deep and profoundly intuitive man who
is a referent for experimental art and the first Mexican who jumped into the river of
international conceptual art at the end of the 1960s.
Este ao, FICUNAM tiene el honor de presentar Mxico, y la relacin entre esos eventos y su re-
su imagen de manos y del generoso corazn presentacin en los medios. Los medios, como el
de Felipe Ehrenberg, un hombre profundo y cine.
sumamente intuitivo; artista referente del arte
experimental y primer mexicano en saltar al ro Nada de lo que hace FICUNAM est exento
del conceptualismo internacional a finales de los de significado. Tanto su imagen como su
sesenta. programacin, atravesando sus actividades,
pensando en cada uno de sus colaboradores,
La imagen est hecha a base de plantillas. La conforman una coreografa que espeja su esencia
plantilla es como una palabra, dice Felipe, un glifo verstil y comprometida. Una esencia que refleja
que en diferentes contextos se expresa de distin- tambin una conciencia sensible, un sentir
tas maneras; un signo que equivale a la parte mni- nacional y mundial, una apreciacin de nuestro
ma de un gran lenguaje: Yo puedo usar la palabra tiempo. Un muro y un hombre cayendo. El muro
sangre en un texto mdico o en un texto policaco se presenta invisible, pero existe; el hombre lo
o en una receta de cocina. La palabra sangre es salta y cae. No vuela, no flota, cae. Caer es un
el glifo y de acuerdo a lo que le suceda alrededor, impulso violento, es el propio peso del que se 35
lo mismo sucede con esta figura que cae, en re- mueve el que lo hace precipitarse al vaco, aunque
ferencia al hombrecito de la identidad FICUNAM 7. tambin es un movimiento que habla de vitalidad y
confianza. Caerse es desprenderse, como se caen
Es un hombre vestido de blanco que cae. Pode- las hojas de los rboles; caer a la nada desde la
mos ver un poco de piel y cierto movimiento es- nada, atravesar muros invisibles o reales, cruzar
pacial, pues en el fondo parecen brillar algunas fronteras, dar la bienvenida a otra posibilidad,
estrellas que son ocultas por la sombra de una trascender; transgredir a travs de la imagen.
palmera. Los colores son calientes; la firma, un Eso es FICUNAM. Gracias Felipe por percibirnos
cdigo de barras. Esta imagen forma parte de una y dejar que, a travs de tu trazo, los dems nos
serie que se llama Son UR-gente, un impulso gra- sientan.
fitero de Felipe en los aos ochenta que refleja su
inquietud por los eventos que ya se gestaban, esa Yunuen Cuenca
violencia sinsentido de entonces y de ahora en Coordinadora Editorial
INAUGURACIN
OPENING
In one of many arguments be-
tween Emily Dickinson and her
father, the poetess defends her
right to possess her own soul
in opposition to the howls of
protest of her father, who un-
derstandsbeyond his moder-
ate style as a freethinkerthat
the soul belongs to God. With
her usual passionand with
the characteristic and unmis-
takable argumentative style of
Anglo-Saxons (perhaps more
so in the English than in the
American; Davies also wrote
the script)Dickinson states
her reasons.
Here, the soul can be understood in a literal or in a metaphorical way. Religious people believe the soul
nests incorporeally within the matter of his or her body, while unbelievers see in it an inherited word
with which the composition of their own selves is expressed. Atheism must be kept away from home!,
sentences a character. In the film, the female writer oscillates between these two positions; that is not
Davies case, who limits himself to register the intersection between biography and poetry, which is made
evident in each off-screen fragment from Dickinsons rhymes.
That dispute over the sovereignty of the soul is not a minor issue for someone devoted to literature.
Writing is always done within the frame of a tradition, in conformity or dissidence to it; and, in Dickinsons
case, that imaginary combat has a plus that could seem anachronistic nowadaysshe belongs to a
minority; shes a woman, and the nineteenth orb of literature is dominated by men. The beautiful passage
in which the writer asks her father for his permission to write from three in the morning until dawn is much
more than a reliable anecdote of a peculiar need to establish ideal conditions for artistic creation.
Clearly, Davies is able to seize the time of a life. In A Quiet Passion, over thirty years pass by as if they
were nothing. The ellipsis which take us from Dickinsons youth to her mature years is decidedly genius,
no less than the photos with which Davies introduces the Civil Warthe time of a life always takes part
in a page of History.
38 Terence Davies cinema is out of this world. Though a great classical tradition still reverberates in his
films, he films in our time. And, in it, he occupies an enigmatic place.
Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2016 Berlinale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Berln; Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto;
Y PREMIOS Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastin; Festival Internacional de Cine de Gante,
Gran Premio Mejor Pelcula; Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena; CPH:PIX. Festival
Internacional de Cine de Copenhague; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata; Festival
Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana, Cuba.
FILMOGRAFA A Quiet Passion (Una pasin discreta) (2016), Sunset Song (Cancin del atardecer) (2015), The
SELECTA Deep Blue Sea (Un profundo mar azul) (2011), Of Time and the City (Del tiempo y la ciudad)
(2008), The House of Mirth (La casa de la alegra) (2000).
A Quiet Passion
UNA PASIN DISCRETA
124
digital
color
INAUGURACIN
padre, la poetisa defiende el derecho de poseer su alma frente al
clamor del padre, que entiende, ms all de su moderado estilo
de librepensador, que el alma pertenece a Dios. Dickinson da sus
razones con la vehemencia habitual y con el inconfundible modo
de argumentacin caracterstico de los anglosajones (quiz ms
ingls que estadounidense; Davies tambin escribi el guin).
Direccin
Guin El alma puede ser entendida aqu literal o metafricamente. El
Terence Davies religioso cree que anida incorpreamente en la materia de su
Fotografa cuerpo; el incrdulo ve ah una palabra heredada con la que se
Florian Hoffmeister expresa la composicin de su propio yo. El atesmo hay que
Edicin mantenerlo lejos de casa!, afirma un personaje. En el film la
Pia Di Ciaula escritora oscila entre esas dos posturas, pero no Davies, que se
Sonido cie a registrar la interseccin entre la biografa y la poesa, lo que
Johan Maertens se evidencia en cada fragmento pronunciado en off de las rimas
Paul Cotterell de Dickinson.
Msica
Ian Neil Esa disputa por la soberana del alma no es menor para alguien
Reparto dedicado a las letras. Se escribe siempre en el marco de una
Cynthia Nixon tradicin, en conformidad o disidencia, y en el caso de Dickinson
Jennifer Ehle ese imaginario combate tiene un plus que hoy puede resultar
Keith Carradine anacrnico: ella pertenece a una minora, es una mujer, y el orbe
Emma Bell decimonnico de las letras lo dominan los hombres. El hermoso
Duncan Duff pasaje en el que la escritora le pide permiso a su padre para
escribir de las tres de la maana hasta el amanecer es bastante
Produccin ms que una ancdota fidedigna de una peculiar necesidad de
Hurricane FIlms establecer condiciones ideales para la creacin artstica.
Distribucin 39
Double Dutch International Davies tiene la ostensible virtud de asir el tiempo de una vida.
En A Quiet Passion pasan ms de treinta aos como si nada.
La resolucin de la elipsis que va de la juventud a la madurez es
decididamente genial, no menos que las fotos fijas con las que
Davies introduce la Guerra de Secesin; el tiempo de una vida
siempre participa de una pgina de la Historia.
Roger Koza
COMPETENCIA
INTERNACIONAL
INTERNATIONAL FILM COMPETITION
Young Bulgarians prostitute
themselves. The chosen place
is Vienna; or, rather, to be more
specific, the Rdiger Bar, in
Margareten, a working-class
district. Theirs is a male-oriented
sexual labor; and they are able
to lavish caresses, oral sex, pen-
etrationand other practices
which defy the orthodoxy of
bodily pleasureon their Austri-
an customers. This is suggested
in various conversations, never
shown. But choosing to use an
off-screen strategy has very little to do with morality. Chiha is not interested in his creatures working per-
formance, but in their waiting times, in an unproductive present time which not necessarily equals leisure;
and, also, in the practical reasons behind a job at which these people arrive to without choosing it.
Intuitively, Chiha knows that to represent the night world of his protagonists, in order to take a glimpse at
their truth, all naturalist efforts must be tossed aside. Rather, he erects a collective expressionist portrait
in which Stefan, Yonko, Asen, and Vassiliamong otherstell their own stories, play pool, perform some
staged scenes which seem outtakes from Fassbinders Querelle, and dance. This is a film of lights and
anatomy, of faces and a language foreign to the surrounding symbolic order; and, in it, we can feel the
experience of he who travels out of necessity and wants to go back to a place to which he thinks he
belongs, but doesnt long for. This is another image of the migrant, that conceptual character of current
capitalism.
The eternal present of this brotherhood of male prostitutessome of them married and with childrenis
the opposite side to any concept of progress, even though they might yearn to buy a car and take a
swim in the Danube River. The chromatic artificialityand structural string of shotsof their confessions,
conversations, and dancing goes beyond the idea of a reality ordered in terms of morning and night, it
emphasizes a floating state of existence where these two organizing categories in which experience, time,
and space are divided seem to have been suspended.
Chihas film is everything but ordinarythings that should cause anguish are not ignored; but, also, this
42 films sequences exude power and a mysterious dignity. An example of it is the passage in which they all
dance at a bar, especially when an extra-diegetic musical theme intervenes the scene. That fragment is
sublime, and perhaps even pious.
Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2016 Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena; Berlinale. Festival Internacional de Cine
Y PREMIOS de Berln; IndieLisboa. Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente; Olhar de Cinema. Festival
Internacional de Cine de Curitiba, Premio Especial del Jurado; FIDMarseille. Festival Internacional
de Cine de Marsella; Festival de Cine de Bogot; Festival Internacional de Cine de Bergen, Mejor
Documental; RIDM. Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Montreal.
FILMOGRAFA Brder der Nacht (Brothers of the Night) (2016), Boys Like Us (Nios como nosotros) (2014),
SELECTA Domaine (2009), Die Herren (The Gentlemen) (2005).
Brder der Nacht
Brothers of the Night
Hermanos de la noche
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ms precisamente un bar llamado Rdiger en el distrito de clase
trabajadora de Margareten. Las tareas sexuales estn orientadas a
los hombres; pueden prodigar a los clientes austriacos caricias, sexo
oral, penetracin u otras prcticas que desafan la ortodoxia de los
placeres corporales. Todo esto se dice en conversaciones diversas,
no se muestra, y la eleccin del riguroso fuera de campo poco tiene
Direccin que ver con la moral. A Chiha no le interesa el desempeo laboral
Guin de sus criaturas sino el tiempo de espera, el presente improductivo,
Edicin que no es necesariamente ocio, y tambin la cualidad anmica y las
Patric Chiha razones prcticas de un empleo al que se llega sin elegir.
Fotografa
Klemens Hufnagl La intuicin de Chiha consiste en que para entrever la verdad de
Sonido sus protagonistas debe desdear cualquier esfuerzo naturalista
Atanas Tcholakov en la representacin de este mundo nocturno. La apuesta es erigir
un retrato expresionista colectivo en el que Stefan, Yonko, Asen,
Produccin Vassili, entre otros, cuenten sus propias historias, jueguen al billar,
WILDart Film interpreten algunas escenas que parecen outtakes de Querelle de
Distribucin Fassbinder, y bailen. En este film de luces y anatomas, de rostros
Film Republic y una lengua ajena al orden simblico circundante se siente la
experiencia del que viaja por necesidad y desea regresar a un lugar
al que cree pertenecer pero que no aora. He aqu otra figura del
inmigrante, personaje conceptual del capitalismo actual.
Roger Koza
At La Rinconada, in the Peruvian
Andes, we find the highest min-
ing site in the world, at 5 500
meters above sea level. A min-
ing cooperative is located there,
dedicated to gold extraction, in
which workers operate under
particularly severe conditions.
In this recondite place, Salom
Lamas portrays the imposing
beauty of the stony hills covered
in snow, where nothing is golden
outside from the banners of Sun-
days religious celebrations. This
harsh and hard nature, filmed in black and white, does not resemble the mythic place of hidden treasures.
In the prolonged shot occupying the first hour of the film, the camera captureswith a dramatically steep
anglethe ups and downs of the workers in procession. As the light of day diminishes, they are lit by the
faint light of their lamps. To this continuous coming and going the voices of dwellers are superimposed
adventurous workers (men and women), a healer, a prostitute, the local radio speaker. Stories of efforts
and sacrifices to which mundane details and pagan superstitions are added. The village seems to be
located at the end of the worldthe inhospitable place dominated by the mine can become a hellhole
of violence and greed. The 21st century El Dorado is a ruthless dream that, unlike the legendary Latin-
American adventure, is bereft of gold, and were both nature and men are cruel.
In Eldorado XXI, Lamas explores new possibilities in todays ethnographic cinema, in which observation
detonates images of an allegorical power. First, Lamas lets the voices in to then show usin the second
parteverything around that mine, where indigenous rituals mix with the catholic structure, and that world
emerges by itself into the light.
Eva Sangiorgi
FESTIVALES 2016 Berlinale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Berln; Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de
44 Y PREMIOS Viena; Porto/Post/Doc, Gran Premio.
FILMOGRAFA Eldorado XXI (2016), Terra de ningum (No Mans Land) (2012).
SELECTA
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miento minero ms alto del mundo a 5 500 metros sobre el nivel del
mar. Ah se localiza una cooperativa minera dedicada a la extraccin
del oro en la que los trabajadores operan en condiciones particu-
larmente severas. En este lugar recndito, Salom Lamas retrata la
imponente belleza de los cerros empedrados y cubiertos de nieve
donde nada es dorado fuera de los estandartes de las fiestas religio-
Direccin sas del domingo. Esta naturaleza hosca y dura, y en blanco y negro,
Guin no se parece al lugar mtico de riquezas escondidas.
Salom Lamas
Fotografa En la toma prolongada que ocupa la primera hora de la pelcula,
Luis Armando Arteaga la cmara capta con un ngulo dramticamente inclinado el bajar
Edicin y subir de los trabajadores en procesin. Mientras la luz del da
Telmo Churro va bajando, estos quedan alumbrados por la dbil iluminacin de
Sonido sus lmparas. A este vaivn continuo e hipntico se sobreponen
Bruno Moreira las voces de los habitantes: trabajadores (hombres y mujeres)
Miguel Martins aventureros, un curandero, una prostituta, el locutor de la radio local.
Msica Historias de esfuerzos y sacrificios a las que se suman detalles
Norberto Lobo mundanos y supersticiones paganas. Aquel poblado parece
Joo Lobo encontrarse en el fin del mundo: el lugar inhspito dominado por
la mina puede convertirse en un hoyo infernal de violencia y avidez.
Produccin El Dorado del siglo XXI es un sueo despiadado que a diferencia
Distribucin de la legendaria aventura latinoamericana, carece de oro, y tanto la
O Som e a Fria naturaleza como los hombres, son crueles.
Eva Sangiorgi
To film the diabolic, not as an
intrusion by a supernatural en-
tity but as a state of things in
which the depreciation of life is
naturalized and nobody cares
not entirely that, because there
are several Mexican filmmakers
trying to find a way to record
the ominous and destitute
condition of existence the ma-
jority live in and the correlative
reverse of the abundance of a
few; abundance to which these
filmmakers are not strangers to
either. Lipkes had already attempted it in Malaventura; now he is at it again with a story with new charac-
ters representing the sinister unease of those who are predestined to indignity.
After a laborious initial long takewhich serves as a preamble to the hell about to be crossedin which
somebody is mercilessly killed, Extrao pero verdadero devotes to following the everyday lives of a
group of people who collect garbage in Mexico City. Verticality in Mexicos forms of organization reaches
even this garbage collection unitthere is a boss giving orders, and there are those who obey. The work
of the main characters allows Lipkes to display a great topological sense applied to the mise en scne.
The citys immensity can be felt in the shots he uses to understand the work route of their workday.
There, the film finds physical solidity and visual elegance (the tracking shots, the panoramic shots, the
crossfading shots, all of these are far from being bombasticthey are a style chosen to understand a
metropolis).
The story does not dismiss grouping some fateful eventsviolence cuts through every section of society,
sordidness is lurking, and contrasts abound. In one scene, a young woman from the garbage-collecting
group goes into the apartment of a wealthy family looking for trash; a short time earlier she is seen having
sex with her boyfriend in the squatter building where they sleep. This opposition is more telling than
the metaphoric suggestion at the end, signed by the appearance of a symbolically charged animal, but
the perplexity is such that it is hard not to imagine it has a dark metaphysical design. Even so, Lipkes is
generoustwo of the main characters will not renounce their own dignity.
46 Roger Koza
FILMOGRAFA Extrao pero verdadero (Strange but True) (2017), Malaventura (2011).
SELECTA
Extrao pero
verdadero
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sobrenatural sino como un estado de cosas en el que la
depreciacin de la vida se naturaliza y a nadie le importa. No
del todo, porque hay varios cineastas mexicanos que intentan
encontrar la forma de registrar la aciaga y menesterosa condicin
de existencia en la que vive una gran mayora, el reverso correlativo
de la abundancia de pocos, a la que tampoco son ajenos. Lipkes
Direccin ya lo haba intentando en Malaventura, ahora vuelve hacerlo en un
Michel Lipkes relato con ms personajes que representan el siniestro malestar de
Guin quienes estn predestinados a la indignidad.
Michel Lipkes
Gabriel Reyes Despus de un laborioso plano secuencia inicial que funciona
Rubn Imaz como prembulo del infierno a transitar, en el que se asesina
Fotografa a alguien sin piedad alguna, Extrao pero verdadero se
Gerardo Barroso Alcal circunscribe a seguir la cotidianidad de un grupo de gente que se
Edicin dedica a recolectar basura en la Ciudad de Mxico. El verticalismo
Len Felipe Gonzlez mexicano que distingue las formas de organizacin alcanza incluso
Michel Lipkes a esta unidad de recoleccin: hay un jefe que da rdenes, estn los
Sonido que obedecen. El oficio de los protagonistas le permite a Lipkes
Jaime Surez lucir un gran sentido topolgico aplicado a la puesta en escena. La
Jos Miguel Enriquez inmensidad de la ciudad se puede sentir en los planos que emplea
Msica para entender el recorrido laboral de cada jornada. All, el film
Galo Durn encuentra su solidez fsica y su elegancia visual (los travellings, las
Reparto panormicas, los fundidos encadenados distan de ser ampulosos;
Alfredo Blanco es el estilo elegido para apreciar una metrpolis).
Krystian Ferrer
Itzel Sarmientos El relato no desestima agrupar algunos sucesos fatdicos; la
Luis Enrique Parra violencia traspasa cada segmento social, la sordidez acecha y los
contrastes son manifiestos. En una escena, la jovencita del equipo 47
Produccin de recoleccin entra al departamento de una familia pudiente en
Axolote Cine bsqueda de la basura; un poco antes se la ve teniendo sexo con
su novio en el edificio ocupado en el que duermen. Esa oposicin
es ms certera que la sugerencia metafrica en el final signada
por la aparicin de un animal simblicamente recargado, pero la
perplejidad es tal que es difcil no imaginar un oscuro designio
metafsico. Aun as, Lipkes es generoso: dos de sus protagonistas
no renunciarn a su propia dignidad.
Roger Koza
Hermia & Helena is the
first movie by Matas Pieiro
filmed in New York, where the
Argentinian filmmaker is based
now. The work presents the
customary family of actors who
work with Pieiro, accompanied
by some of indie-scene faces,
like Keith Poulsons and Mati
Diops.
Camila (Agustina Muoz) gets a grant to translate A Midsummers Night Dream into Spanish and finds
herself tangled in a sea of opportunities and situations, under a sort of literary spell by the original
characters of Hermia and Helena, that finds echoes in the duplication of locationsNew York, Buenos
Airesand times. The edition itself emphasizes this through small steps, or temporal steps, forward and
backwards.
The result is an elegant and mature comedy, graceful because of the sinuosity of the Spanish language
when it shows up, and because of an attentive choreography of the characters in the scene (one of
Pieiros characteristics), paying homage to theatre and playing with the rhythm of the composition of
the montage.
48 Eva Sangiorgi
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno; Festival Internacional de Cine de Ourense,
Y PREMIOS Mencin Especial; Festival de Cine de Nueva York; Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto; BFI.
Festival de Cine de Londres; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata.
FILMOGRAFA Hermia & Helena (2016), La princesa de Francia (The Princess of France) (2014), Viola (2012),
SELECTA Rosalinda (2010), Todos mienten (They All Lie) (2009), El hombre robado (The Stolen Man)
(2007), A propsito de Buenos Aires (2006).
Hermia & Helena
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Unidos
2016
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en Nueva York, donde reside el realizador argentino. La obra
presenta a la habitual familia de actores que trabajan con Pieiro,
acompaada por algunas caras de la escena indie como Keith
Poulson y Mati Diop.
Eva Sangiorgi
There is a convention in cin-
emathe more camera move-
ments, the more cinematic a
film is considered. Radu Jude
demonstrates just the opposite
in Inimi cicatrizate, where
the camera is just as still as its
characters (patients, destined
to horizontality, at a Rumanian
sanatorium during the thir-
ties); however, this is a mise en
scne of surprising vitality.
Loosely inspired on the writings of Rumanian author Max Blecher, the film explores Emanuels attitude
towards disease, death, hope and love, giving shape to an absorbent world that alternates different
tones (comedy, melancholy, tragedy, and black humor), sustained by great performances, an extremely
meticulous artistic direction (a fine portrait of the medicine of those times), besides the fact that each
image (filmed in 35 mm) is conceived like a painting.
If the film doesnt have any close-ups, the pertinent use of inter-titles (some sentences by Blecher)
involves us in the deepest feelings of the protagonist, rendering a powerful poetic dimension to Judes
film. Besides its prodigious aesthetics, the work is not lacking in political dimension: the main character
is a Jew in the context of growing anti-Semitism in 1930s Europe.
A historical film against the flow of the tendency in the new Rumanian cinema of recent years, with formal
solidity without being conventional, and with unheard-of sensibilitybut without falling in unnecessary
emotionalismInimi cicatrizate is an ode to life.
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FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno, Premio Especial del Jurado; Festival Internacional
Y PREMIOS de Cine de Busan; Festival Internacional de Cine de Estambul; Festival Internacional de Cine de
Vancouver; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Mejor Director; Festival Internacional
de Gotemburgo; Festival Internacional de Cine de Haifa, Mencin Especial; Festival de Cine
Europeo de Sevilla; Festival Internacional de Cine de Varsovia; Festival de Cine de Hamburgo; BFI.
Festival de Cine de Londres; Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena; Festival de Cine de
Tesalnica; Festival Internacional de Cine de Sarajevo.
FILMOGRAFA Inimi cicatrizate (Scarred Hearts) (2016), Aferim! (2015), Toata lumea din familia noastra(Everybody
SELECTA In Our Family) (2012), Cea mai fericit fat din lume(TheHappiest Girl in the World) (2009).
Inimi cicatrizate
Scarred Hearts
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2016
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cmara, ms cinematogrfica es considerada una pelcula. Radu
Jude demuestra todo lo contrario con Inimi cicatrizate, donde
la cmara es tan inmvil como sus personajes (pacientes de un
sanatorio de Rumania destinados a la horizontalidad durante
los aos treinta); una puesta en escena, sin embargo, de una
sorprendente vitalidad.
Direccin
Guin El film se centra en Emanuel, un joven de veinte aos diagnosticado
Radu Jude de tuberculosis vertebral que tendr que pasar los prximos aos
Fotografa en un cors de yeso. Tumbado continuamente en una cama, el
Marius Panduru protagonista no se rinde frente a la inevitable degradacin de
Edicin su cuerpo y lleva una vida social necesaria con otros pacientes,
Catalin Cristutiu enfermeras y visitantes, adems de tener un romance pasional con
Sonido la bella Solange. Tal como un microcosmos, el hospital se vuelve un
Dana Lucretia Bunescu frum para debates intelectuales, diversiones ebrias y encuentros
Reparto sexuales.
Lucian Teodor Rus
Ivana Mladenovic Libremente inspirada en los escritos del autor rumano Max Blecher,
Ilinca Harnut la pelcula explora la actitud de Emanuel frente a la enfermedad,
Marian Olteanu la muerte, la esperanza y el amor, dando forma a un mundo
Bogdan Cotlet absorbente que alterna diferentes tonos comedia, melancola,
Alexandru Dabija tragedia y humor negro, sostenido por grandes actuaciones, una
Serban Pavlu direccin artstica extremadamente meticulosa (fino retrato de la
medicina de aquella poca), adems de que cada imagen filmada
Produccin en 35 mm est concebida como una pintura.
Hi Film Productions
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interttulos (algunas frases de Blecher) nos inmiscuye en el sentir 51
ms profundo del protagonista, dando una poderosa dimensin
potica al film de Jude. Adems de su esttica prodigiosa, la obra
no carece de dimensin poltica: el personaje principal es un judo
en el contexto de un creciente antisemitismo en la Europa de los
aos treinta.
Sbastien Blayac
This films title refers to Bla
Bartks opera, which in five
moments we hear for a while.
And although the operas libret-
to is barely perceptible in the
malaise felt by Lailathe young
protagonist who only appears
on the scene after 20 minutes
of the film have already passed
byperhaps her uneasiness
is related to what Judith felt in
Bluebeards Castle when she
discovered bloodied treasures
behind her masters locked
doors. And although Laila wont find blood, she will indeed know by intuition that the richness she enjoys
is produced by other people who live in a different world. If something happens in Solnickis film is a
validationthe world is divided between those who own matter and those who work it for others. Theres
no conciliation, nor confrontationonly an unshakable order.
This (negative) dialectic is materialized, not enunciated through words. During its first twenty minutes, the
film portrays wealthy-peoples leisure, high-class Argentineans who possess holiday mansions by the sea
in Northern Uruguay. Theirs is a leisure without any splendor. The absolute triviality of these creatures only
fades away, barely, through the perfect and geometric framing of the camera, which makes them beautiful.
The youngsters and kids we see will later become the persons who people Lailas world; and, even though
their bonds are never explicitly stated, they are shown to be, indeed, an embedded social class.
The second movement of the film is set in Buenos Aires. Laila wants to become independent and tries
to work at her fathers factory. Perhaps she will study architecture. Those passages are remarkable.
Solnicki introduces some of the factorys scenes; workers laborphysically toiling over the matterin
order to produce richness for others. Concrete and abstract, another conceptual pair to follow with a
chain of flawless shots.
What happens in visual terms is innovating. The only lens used throughout the film by the two best
cinematographers in Argentinean cinema explains the visual uniqueness of the shots. But this hypnosis
of the image doesntor shouldntblur the aural dimension, which is equally sophisticated (and not only
52 at the moments chosen to introduce Bartks chords).
Solnicki is back, dealing again with rich peoples invisible lives. He films what he knows and does so
without any concessions whatsoever. For those of us who dont belong to that world, to discover it allow
us to sense how suffocating material overabundance is.
Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia, Premio FIPRESCI, Bisato dOro de la Crtica Inde-
Y PREMIOS pendiente; Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto; Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de
Viena; Festival de Cine de Tesalnica; Festival de Cine de Nueva York.
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se escucha por un rato. El libreto de la pera apenas se siente
en el malestar de Laila, la joven protagonista que recin aparece
en escena a los veinte minutos. Su zozobra quiz tiene que ver
con lo que suceda con Judith en El castillo de Barba Azul, que
descubra tesoros ensangrentados detrs de las puertas secretas
del amo. Laila no se encontrar con sangre, pero s intuir que las
Direccin riquezas de las que goza son producidas por otros, que viven en
Gastn Solnicki otro mundo. Si hay algo que sucede en este film de Solnicki es la
Fotografa constatacin de que el mundo est dividido entre quienes poseen
Diego Poleri la materia y quienes la trabajan para otros. No hay conciliacin,
Fernando Lockett tampoco enfrentamiento. Es un orden inamovible.
Edicin
Alan Segal Esa dialctica (negativa) se materializa, no se enuncia en palabras.
Francisco DEufemia Los primeros veinte minutos pasan por retratar el ocio de los
Sonido pudientes, los argentinos de clase alta que tienen sus mansiones
Jason Candler de vacaciones en el norte martimo de Uruguay. Es un ocio
Msica desprovisto de fulgor; la soberana trivialidad de estas criaturas
Bla Bartk se disipa apenas en la perfeccin de los encuadres geomtricos
Reparto que los embellecen. Los jvenes y nios que se ven sern luego
Laila Maltz personas alrededor del mundo de Laila, aunque nunca se explicitan
Katia Szechtman del todo los vnculos. Son, s, una clase social encarnada.
Lara Tarlowski
Natali Maltz En el segundo movimiento, el film se instala en Buenos Aires. Laila
Maria Soldi quiere independizarse, intenta trabajar en la fbrica de su padre, tal
Pedro Trocca vez estudie arquitectura. Esos pasajes son notables. Solnicki introdu-
Denise Groesman ce algunas escenas en la fbrica. Los operarios trabajan fsicamente
sobre la materia para generar riquezas para otros. Lo concreto y la
Produccin abstraccin, otro par conceptual para seguir el encadenamiento de 53
Filmy Wiktora planos perfectos.
Frutacine
Distribucin Lo que sucede visualmente es novedoso. El nico lente empleado en
Filmy Wiktora todo el film por los dos mejores directores de fotografa del cine argen-
tino explica la rareza ptica de los planos. Hipnotismo que no debera
empaar la dimensin sonora, no menos sofisticada (y no solamente
por los momentos elegidos para introducir los acordes de Bartk).
A dream? The grammar of the film proceeds by association, pretty close to what usually prevails in dream
life. Fernando, the ornithologist, starts by watching birds in a place where signs of civilization are not felt;
then, he suffers an accident, and meets two perverse female Christian believers from China and later a
mute homosexual sheperd. There are more surprises with no other telos than the conversion of a man
into a saint. This transformation is announced a few times by an inhuman gaze, that of birds, who see
what men dont (strange subjective shots are essential to the poetics of this film).
Those who are obsessed with meaning may postulate diverse interpretations. There is everything from
sequences of homoerotism and pagan rituals to a passage in which Latin is heard, and a brief staging
of the famous Saint Anthonys speech directed at the fish. But the film could not be more objectively
materialistic (in a philosophical sense), since its mise en scne evolves around an ornithologist fascinated
by the surfaces of the worldanimals, bodies, mountains, the forest and the rivers, all of these are
venerated by the lens of the camera, and transfigured into an aesthetic pleasure of a very religious nature.
Roger Koza
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FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno, Mejor Director Competencia Internacional; Festival
Y PREMIOS de Cine de Hamburgo; Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto; FICValdivia. Festival Internacional
de Cine de Valdivia; Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastin; Festival Internacional de
Cine de Vancouver; Festival de Nuevo Cine Montreal; BFI. Festival de Cine de Londres; Festival de
Cine de Nueva York; Festival Internacional de Cine de Busan; Festival Internacional de Cine de Ro
de Janeiro; Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena; Festival de Cine de Sitges; Festival
Internacional de Cine de Tokio; Festival de Cine de Tesalnica; Janela Internacional de Cinema do
Recife, Mejor Sonido, Premio Janela Crtica Mejor Largometraje.
FILMOGRAFA O ornitlogo (The Ornithologist) (2016), A ltima vez que vi Macau (The Last Time I Saw Macao)
SELECTA (2012), Morrer como um homen (To Die Like a Man) (2009), Odete (Two Drifters) (2005), O
Fantasma (Phantom) (2000).
O ornitlogo
The Ornithologist
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es nuestro predicador predilecto: filme lo que filme, cuente lo que
cuente, todos nosotros creeremos en sus imgenes (y sonidos).
La fe en cuestin no es estrictamente la cristiana, que es invocada
en un relato insubordinado sobre un legendario personaje religioso
portugus, San Antonio de Padua. La fe es aqu la que el director
profesa por el cine. Solamente en el cine uno puede creer en
Direccin los misterios del espritu y en los milagros. La libertad secular
Joo Pedro Rodrigues de Rodrigues as lo entiende y por eso puede adentrarse en una
Guin tradicin antigua y medieval, y combinar el espritu cientfico con
Joo Pedro Rodrigues la supersticin. En principio, nada ms lejos de un telogo que un
Joo Rui Guerra da Mata ornitlogo: el primero quiere contemplar lo inobservable, el segundo
Fotografa se atiene a las maravillas que le puede dispensar su visin auxiliada
Rui Poas por unos binoculares.
Edicin
Raphal Lefvre Un sueo? La gramtica del film procede por asociacin, bastante
Sonido cercana a la que suele imperar en la vida onrica. Fernando, el orni-
Nuno Carvalho tlogo, empieza observando aves en un paraje donde no se sienten
Msica los signos de la civilizacin; despus tiene un accidente, se encuen-
Sverine Ballon tra con dos perversas creyentes cristianas de China, ms tarde con
Reparto un pastor mudo y homosexual. Hay ms sorpresas, cuyo telos no es
Paul Hamy otro que la conversin de un hombre en santo. Esta transformacin
Xelo Cagiao es anunciada varias veces por una mirada inhumana, la de las aves,
Joo Pedro Rodrigues que ven lo que los hombres no (las subjetivas enrarecidas son esen-
Han Wen ciales para la potica del film).
Chan Suan
Juliane Elting Los obsesivos del sentido podrn postular interpretaciones diversas.
Hay desde secuencias de homoerotismo y rituales paganos hasta
Produccin un captulo en el que se escucha latn y una breve escenificacin del 55
Blackmaria famoso discurso de San Antonio dirigido a los peces. Pero el film no
House on Fire podra ser ms objetivamente materialista (en un sentido filosfico),
Itaca Films pues su puesta en escena es la de un cineasta ornitlogo que est
Distribucin fascinado por las superficies del mundo: los animales, los cuerpos,
Films Boutique las montaas, el bosque, los ros son venerados por el lente de la
cmara y transfigurados en un placer esttico que tiene mucho de
religioso.
Roger Koza
In Philippine cinema in general,
and John Torres in particu-
lar, History is a background of
meaning that every story pre-
supposes. The colonial shadow
and the ominous American
menace are constant figures;
in this episode in Torres work,
theres an obscure reference to
the so-called EDSA revolution
of the mid-1980s. These are
the symbolic coordinates of a
film that, as others by the same
director, develops more like a
dream than a story. History like an oneiric scene that needs to be revisited and elaborated?
This unclassifiable film by Torres is erected upon the ruins of an abandoned film by Celso Ad Castillo;
however, if the textures of the images give the impression that all that is seen is archive material from
that film, many scenes arent. The unique phantasmagoric materiality of the images also constitutes an
intuitionthe nature of every image is epistemologically uncertain and susceptible of being manipulated
for the sake of fiction.
Castillos film is often exposed by an undeniable fact; the presence of famous Philippine actress Liz
Alindogan. The lovely youth of the star illuminates each shot. The recurrent scene is one in which many
women are travelling on a raft, along with some armed men and Buddhist monks. The situation is of
extreme survival. The other sequences revolve around the filming itself and its vicissitudes, a complex
situation that becomes indifferent with regard to the collective drama that the film represents.
The indetermination of the visual order is deepened by an extraordinary soundtrack in which the comments
of some actors of the film are largely heard, which doesnt mean in this instance a will to clarify. What is
said doesnt work as a contextualizing text; rather, it is a discursive layer adhering to the bewilderment of
a universe worked as a (historical and cinematic) nightmare.
The mysterious tornado seen at the beginning (that will sometimes lend its shape to the images) is a
whole metaphor in itself. In face of the forces of nature and History, men are pushed into participating in
56 events that are never entirely decipherable.
Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2017 Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam 2016 Festival Cinema One Originals.
Y PREMIOS
FILMOGRAFA People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose (Bomba del Poder Popular: El diario de la
SELECTA Rosa de Vietnam) (2016), Lukas the Strange (Lukas, el extrao) (2013), Refrains Happen Like
Revolutions in a Song (Los estribillos suceden como revoluciones en una cancin) (2010), Years
When I Was a Child Outside (2008), Todo Todo Teros (2006).
People Power
Bombshell: The Diary
of Vietnam Rose
Bomba del Poder Popular: El
Filipinas
2016 diario de la Rosa de Vietnam
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la Historia es un fondo de sentido que presupone todo relato.
La sombra colonial y la ominosa amenaza estadounidense son
figuras constantes; en este episodio en la obra de Torres se alude
difusamente a la as llamada Revolucin EDSA de mediados de la
dcada de 1980. Estas son las coordenadas simblicas de un film
que, como otros del director, se desarrolla ms como un sueo
Direccin que como un cuento. La Historia como una escena onrica que
Guin siempre hay que retomar y elaborar?
Edicin
John Torres Este inclasificable film de Torres est erigido sobre las ruinas de
Fotografa un film abandonado de Celso Ad Castillo; no obstante, si bien las
Malay Javier texturas de las imgenes dan la impresin de que todo lo visto
Jippy Pascua es material de archivo de aquel film, muchas de las escenas no
Shireen Seno lo son. La inconfundible materialidad fantasmal de las imgenes
Denisse Vistoria constituye tambin una intuicin: la naturaleza de toda imagen es
Sonido epistemolgicamente incierta y susceptible de ser manipulada en
Mervine Aquino aras de la ficcin.
Itos Ledesma
Christopher Lambert El film de Castillo se evidencia a menudo con un dato indesmentible:
Reparto la presencia de la clebre actriz filipina Liz Alindogan. La hermosa
Liz Alindogan juventud de la estrella ilumina cada plano. La escena recurrente
Elora Espano es una en la que viajan en una balsa muchas mujeres, algunos
Kim Perez hombres armados y tambin monjes budistas. Es una situacin
Anna J. Luna de supervivencia extrema. Las otras secuencias giran en torno al
Julienne Calugcug propio rodaje y sus vicisitudes, situacin compleja que se vuelve
indiferente respecto del drama colectivo que el film representa.
Produccin
Los Otros Films La indeterminacin del orden visual es profundizada por la 57
Distribucin extraordinaria banda sonora, en la que se escuchan en gran medida
Creative Programs los comentarios de algunos intrpretes del film, lo que no significa
aqu una voluntad de esclarecimiento. Lo dicho no funciona como
texto que contextualiza; es ms bien una capa discursiva que
se adhiere al desconcierto de un universo trabajado como una
pesadilla (histrica y cinematogrfica).
Roger Koza
Perception in itself, or per-
ception of History. Already in
Luca, the Chilean filmmaker
understood that the relation-
ship between Image and His-
tory had become unavoidable.
In that film, the texture of the
image mattered as well; but, in
Rey, a trip to the Patagonian
past and into the delirium of a
European man who wanted to
set up a new kingdom in con-
sonance with the remote beliefs
of aboriginal peoplesand the
textures of imagesare talismans. They invoke deeds forgotten, summon to another read on history
helped by a specific mediation that started at the end of the 19th centurycinema, which altered the
reconstructions of the past.
In 1858, a lawyer from the South of France, Orlie-Antoine de Tounens, decided to leave to Chile with
the misbegotten idea of founding the Kingdom of Araucania. From 1860 to 1878 he was king, perhaps
proclaimed under the consent of the Mapuche Indians in spite of him being a winka, a white man.
Divided into several chapters, most of them related to the trial for treason this anachronistic dreamer
faced before the Chilean State, the film makes use of the legal testimonies to represent the accuseds
monarchic adventure, sometimes from his point of view and also sometimes from that of his guide, a
gaucho (cowboy).
The fluidity of the story doesnt go without a mise en abyme; the cadenced narrationwhich is also
intervened occasionally with stock from diverse archives which suggest a conception of History as a
superposition of memory stratais deployed with elegance and ingenuity.
Much in the same way as the indigenous beliefs are represented, with honesty and without modesty,
the instances of the trial are ridiculed with the same confidencesubstituting the face of those present
with masks, which is a way of exposing disagreement with the public prosecutors perspective and the
Chilean States interests. The theatricality displayed at the trial scenes constitute a true expression of
its farcicality.
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Atallah doesnt vindicate, nor does he condemn, the exploits of his intemperate and hallucinating hero,
but he does enunciate the validity of the rights of all peoples which have survived the civilizing purge.
That claim is never above his film. Thing is, Rey is the opposite of a pamphlet with images and sound;
here, cinema goes first.
Roger Koza
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Holanda Alemania
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2017
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el realizador chileno comprenda que la relacin entre imagen e
Historia se haba vuelto ineludible. En aquel film la textura de la
imagen tambin importaba, y en Rey, un viaje al pasado patagnico
y al delirio de un europeo que quiso instaurar un nuevo reino en
consonancia con las remotas creencias de los pueblos originales,
las texturas de las imgenes son talismanes. Invocan sucesos
Direccin olvidados, convocan a leer otra historia, con el auxilio de una
Guin mediacin especfica nacida a fines del siglo XIX: el cine, que alter
Niles Atallah las reconstrucciones del pasado.
Fotografa
Benjamin Echazaretta En 1858, un abogado del sur de Francia, Orlie-Antoine de
Edicin Tounens, decidi partir para Chile con la descabellada idea de
Benjamin Mirguet fundar el Reino de la Araucana. De 1860 a 1878 fue rey, quizs
Msica proclamado con el consentimiento de los mapuches, a pesar de
Sebastian Jatz ser un winka, un hombre blanco. Dividida en varios captulos,
la mayora vinculados al juicio por traicin que este soador
Produccin anacrnico enfrent ante el estado chileno, la pelcula aprovecha
Mmerade los testimonios jurdicos para representar la aventura monrquica
del acusado, a veces desde su punto de vista, y tambin del de su
gua, un gaucho.
Roger Koza
In an abandoned hotel in
Montenegro, close to the
border with Albania, two men
interweave a relationship. And
the arrival of a foreigner will
bring upheaval to their balance.
The ruins of the building seem
to come from an undefined
time, from an apocalyptic future,
or from a defeated past. Sure
enough, we are in a territory
forgotten by History, from which
signs and remains make their
way to uswhat once was the
Federative Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, that has determined territories of uncertain boundaries.
There are no dialogues between the three characters, but a lyrical monologuemade up of fragments of
Jean-Luc Godards Passion, quotes from Simon Weils Gravity and Grace, and of epic Serbian poetry
is superimposed. A correspondence is created between distant spaces and experienceslike Lagos,
Brasilia, or the desolate buildings of the northern citiesthat demanded a reencounter with nature. The
voice describes the ambitions of building projects in that territory, and ties together architecture with the
structure of societyin carefully composed frames, in quartered walls. Empty spaces seem to evoke a
utopia violently betrayed, or a world abandoned to solitude.
This is the surprising debut of Dane Komljen, a Bosnian filmmaker whose previous short films have
been recognized by international festivals. Komljen composes a formally-free film in which theres no
pretension to explain every detail. Cinema is made of images, sounds, contextures that transmit the
sensibility of its author with simplicity, often in a spontaneous and innate fashion. All the Cities of
the North is full of this seduction, which is an intimate and suggestive poetic flux. A surprising film that
manifests the freedom of cinema as a poetic and political expression.
Eva Sangiorgi
60 FESTIVALES 2017 Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno;
Y PREMIOS Festival Internacional de Cine de Sarajevo; FICValdivia. Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia;
Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata.
FILMOGRAFA Svi severni gradovi (All the Cities of the North) (2016), Nae telo(Our Body) (2015), Viak vjetra
SELECTA (A Surplus of Wind) (2014), Ja vec jesam sve ono to elim da imam (I Already Am Everything I
Want to Have) (2010).
Svi severni gradovi
All the Cities of the North
Todas las ciudades del norte
Bosnia y Herzegovina
- Serbia - Montenegro
2016
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En un hotel abandonado en Montenegro, cerca del confn con
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Albania, dos hombres entretejen una relacin y la llegada de un
extranjero traer agitacin a su equilibrio. La ruinas del complejo
parecen proceder de un tiempo indefinido; de un futuro apocalptico
o de un pasado derrotado. En efecto, estamos en un territorio
olvidado por la Historia, del que nos llegan seales y restos: lo
que fue la Repblica Federativa Socialista de Yugoslavia, que ha
Direccin determinado territorios de mrgenes inciertos.
Guin
Dane Komljen No hay dilogos entre los tres personajes, pero se sobrepone un
Fotografa monlogo lrico trazado con fragmentos de la Pasin, de Jean-
Ivan Markovic Luc Godard, de citas de La gravedad y la gracia, de Simon Weil,
Edicin y de poesa pica serbia. Se crea una correspondencia entre
Dane Komljen esos espacios y experiencias lejanas, como Lagos, Brasilia o los
Natasa Damnjanovic edificios desolados de las ciudades del norte, que reclamaban
Sonido reencontrarse con la naturaleza. La voz describe la pretensin de los
Igor Camo proyectos de construccin en el territorio y relaciona la arquitectura
Simon Apostolou con la estructura de la sociedad: en los cuadros atentamente
Jakov Munizaba compuestos, aquellas paredes descuartizadas, aquellos espacios
Reparto vacos parecen evocar una utopa violentamente traicionada, o a un
Boban Kaludjer mundo abandonado a la soledad.
Boris Isakovic
Dane Komljen Se trata del sorprendente debut de Dane Komljen, realizador
bosnio cuyos anteriores cortometrajes han sido reconocidos
Produccin por los festivales internacionales. Komljen compone una pelcula
Dart Film formalmente libre, en la que no hay pretensin de explicar cada
detalle. El cine est hecho de imgenes, sonidos, de contexturas
que simplemente transmiten la sensibilidad de su autor, muchas
veces de una manera espontnea e innata. De esta seduccin est 61
llena All the Cities of the North, que es un flujo potico ntimo
y sugestivo. Una pelcula sorprendente que manifiesta la libertad
del cine como expresin potica y poltica.
Eva Sangiorgi
To link two stories from different
times through the same space
is what Alessandro Como-
din decides to do in his latest
film, with a narrative structure
revealing the art of combining
diverse aspects to create a free
and imaginativeyet cohesive
world.
After an unfortunate encounter of the fugitives with armed villagers, the film moves to another time, a
modern one, where it revolves around the story of a wolf, of the excavation of a mysterious hole made by
Ariane (a young sick woman who visits her parents), and a love story between her and Tomasso, one of
the protagonists of the first part of the filma phantasmagoric figure from the past or an anthropomorphic
wolf, Tomasso (re)appears and the film takes on the form of a tale. Ages cross over each other.
I tempi felici verranno presto explores the primitive aspect of man in Nature, which is also an
essential main character. The approach is not rational but mystic; however, the topic of captivity (at the
beginning and at the end of the filman infinite closed circuit) reveals a film that is nothing but a reflection
on the prison system, a political technology of the body, by contrast with the absolute freedom of wild
nature, in particular in a magnificent scene of two bodies naked in a pond.
Comodins capacity for mixing legendsrural stories, History, fiction, documentary, and even rock-noise
musicwith a naturalist aesthetic is simply extraordinary. I tempi felici verranno presto breaks the narrative
codes down and imposes its creator as one of the most innovative within contemporary Italian cinema.
62 Sbastien Blayac
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival de Cannes, Semana de la Crtica; Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena;
Y PREMIOS Beatrice Story Awards, Premio Mejor Pelcula; Festival Internacional de Cine de los Pases de
Asia-Pacfico en Vladivostok; ArteKino Festival; Festival de Cine de Sitges; Festival Internacional
de Cine Ostrava Kamera Oko.
FILMOGRAFA I tempi felici verranno presto (Happy Times will Come Soon) (2016), Lestate di Giacomo (Summer
SELECTA of Giacomo) (2011).
I tempi felici
verranno presto
Happy Times will Come Soon
Los tiempos felices llegarn
Italia pronto
2016
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color Vincular dos pocas diferentes a travs de un mismo espacio es lo
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que decide hacer Alessandro Comodin con su ltima pelcula, cuya
estructura narrativa revela ser el arte de combinar diversos aspectos
para crear un mundo imaginativo y libre, pero coherente.
Sbastien Blayac
A film about treason and a par-
ticular way to escape from it
insanity. Here we have a man
who upon discovering an oil
deposit brought, upon the com-
munity of fishermen to which
he belonged, the end of their
immediate basic economy. Don
Rome is an infamous man and
there will always be someone
to remind him of it even though
he, evidently, has erected for
himself a paradoxical psychic
shelter. How, then, can an inner
experience be filmed without resorting to words? The challenge resides in dismissing psychology and
venturing into the empiricism of deeds.
Imaz believes cinema doesnt play all of its cards in the composition of an image. A scene is image and
also sound. To the laborious geometry of his frames, he adds a soundtrack that belittles the equilibrium
transmitted by the apparently heavenly places at Tris Island, although some panoramic shots of the seas
horizon with the typical sites of oil exploitation also suggest a geological disarray. If Don Rome indeed
often suffers from failed cognition, and it materializes, the sound layers of the film convey better the
suffering of the character. If an ordinary event on camera has an unlikely sound, the shot leans toward
bewilderment, its unity is broken.
The presence of the famous and veteran actor Jos Carlos Ruiz at the side of Mexican independent film
star Gabino Rodrguez is another good choice by the filmmaker. The former seems to have been part of
that ecosystem forever. Rodrguezs peculiar face is well used by Imaz; he is Chacho, perhaps Ariel, or
maybe an early version of Romehis is an unspeakable presence. The division of reality looms over each
deed; imagination, sight, and feeling are subject to the shocks of the guilt-ridden character. Discreetly,
Tormentero has much more to do with poetry cinema than with the much more trodden side of prose
cinema, which doesnt mean it lacks meaning. The signs are there, available for their understanding.
If the story of Tormentero is indeed dark, Imaz doesnt take advantage of it to portrait suffering as stylish
and to elevate the grief of a man to a metaphysical tragedy. Darkness remains at a human scale.
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FILMOGRAFA Tormentero (Stormmaker) (2017), Epitafio (Epitaph) (2015), Cefalpodo (Cephalopod) (2010),
SELECTA Familia Tortuga (Turtle Family) (2006).
Tormentero
StormMaker
Mxico - Colombia -
Repblica Dominicana
2017
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Un film sobre la traicin y una singular forma de conjurarla: el
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desvaro mental. He aqu un hombre que al descubrir un yacimiento
petrolfero perpetr para la comunidad de pescadores a la que
perteneca, el fin de su economa bsica inmediata. Don Rome es
un hombre infame y en ocasiones no faltar quien se lo recuerde,
aunque l, evidentemente, ha erigido un paradjico refugio
psquico. Cmo filmar entonces una experiencia interior sin acudir
Direccin a la palabra? El desafo consiste en desestimar la psicologa y
Rubn Imaz adentrarse en el empirismo de los actos.
Guin
Fernando del Razo Imaz cree que el cine no se juega todas sus cartas en la
Rubn Imaz composicin de una imagen. El plano es imagen y tambin sonido.
Fotografa A la geometra laboriosa de sus encuadres le suma una banda
Gerardo Barroso sonora que desestima el equilibrio que transmiten los parajes
Edicin aparentemente paradisacos de la isla de Tris, aunque algunas
Israel Crdenas panormicas en el horizonte del mar con los emplazamientos
Rubn Imaz caractersticos de la explotacin petrolera tambin sugieren un
Sonido desarreglo geolgico. Si bien Don Rome padece a menudo una
Jos Miguel Enrquez cognicin fallida y esta se materializa, las capas sonoras del film
Csar Salazar transmiten mejor el padecimiento del personaje. Si un evento
Msica ordinario frente a cmara tiene un sonido impropio, el plano tiende
Galo Durn al desconcierto, se quiebra en su unidad.
Camilo Plaza
Reparto La presencia del famoso y veterano actor Jos Carlos Ruiz al lado
Jos Carlos Ruiz de la estrella del cine independiente mexicano Gabino Rodrguez,
Gabino Rodrguez es otra buena decisin del cineasta. El primero parece haber sido
Mnica Jimnez parte de ese ecosistema desde siempre. El peculiar semblante
Waldo Facco de Rodrguez es bien aprovechado por Imaz: es Chacho, tal vez
Rosa Mrquez Ariel, quizs una versin temprana de Rome; es una presencia 65
indecible. La divisin de lo real sobrevuela cada acto; imaginar,
Produccin ver y sentir estn sujetos a los sobresaltos del culposo personaje.
Axolote Cine Discretamente, Tormentero tiene mucho ms que ver con el cine
Distribucin de poesa que con la vertiente ms transitada del cine de prosa,
Mundial lo que no significa que reniegue del sentido. Los signos estn
disponibles para el entendimiento.
Roger Koza
AHORA MXICO
MEXICO, RIGHT NOW!
The debut feature by Sergio
Flores Thorijaa young Mexi-
can filmmaker graduated from
the Film Factory (the great Bla
Tarrs school)is organized in
accordance with the succes-
sive portraits of three young
women living in Sarajevo: Ivana,
a cook who takes care of her
sick mother and dreams of
moving to the United States, a
dream that seems within reach
when she has a romance with
an American tourist; Clara, a
vegetarian Brazilian feminist who meets a nice real-estate agent and who works as a dancer in a night
club to pay for her studies, activity considered immoral by her landlady; and Marinasecretly in love with
her best female friend who is about to leave to another countrywho deals with a Bosnia where homo-
phobia is the norm, as it is in her parents house.
Three independent stories that connect from the desires, dreams, worries, and disillusions of the
protagonists. Three life impossibilities that also reveal the political background of the film (migration, moral
and religious oppression, socioeconomic alienation). And three autonomous parts that, notwithstanding,
intertwine cinematically on fleeting occasionssome sequences are repeated, though filmed from
another point of view, redefining the perception of the characters and the spectator, a subtly used and
absolutely brilliant filmic device.
The filmic poetics of Sergio Flores Thorija are defined by his approach to space and time, making use
of non-professional actors, filming with natural light and without the use of extra-diegetic music; with a
sober but pertinent cinematic language upheld by precise images shot by Flores Thorija himself.
The film displays an achieved naturalism and the subtext is no less present from the opening shot of the
film, a woman in front of a mirror, provoking an insight on outward appearances within the conservative
patriarchal Bosnia-Herzegovina society.
Through its human and cinematic gaze, formal solidity, and singular aesthetics, 3 ZENE or (Waking
68 Up From My Bosnian Dream) is, without any doubt, the manifestation of a new and talented filmmaker.
Sbastien Blayac
FILMOGRAFA 3 ZENE or (Waking Up From My Bosnian Dream) 3 WOMEN or (Waking Up From My Bosnian
SELECTA Dream) (2016), Bosnian Dream (2015), Tuga (2014).
3 ZENE or (Waking
Up From My Bosnian
Dream)
3 WOMEN or (Waking Up From My
Mxico - Bosnia y
Herzegovina Bosnian Dream)
2016 3 MUJERES o (despertando de mi
120 sueo bosnio)
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color
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AHORA MXICO
la Film Factory (la escuela del gran Bla Tarr), se organiza segn
los retratos sucesivos de tres jvenes mujeres que viven en
Sarajevo: Ivana, cocinera que cuida a su madre enferma y suea
con mudarse a Estados Unidos, un sueo que parece a su alcance
cuando tiene un romance con un turista norteamericano; Clara,
brasilea vegetariana y feminista, conoce a un simptico agente
Direccin inmobiliario y trabaja de bailarina en un club nocturno para pagar
Guin sus estudios, actividad considerada inmoral por su casera; y
Fotografa Marina, secretamente enamorada de su mejor amiga que est a
Edicin punto de irse a otro pas, lidia con una Bosnia donde la homofobia
Sergio Flores Thorija es la norma, como en casa de sus padres.
Sonido
Levan Lomjaria Tres historias independientes que se relacionan desde los deseos,
Reparto sueos, inquietudes y desilusiones de sus protagonistas. Tres im-
Ivana Vojinovic posibilidades de vida que revelan tambin un trasfondo poltico de
Clara Casagrande la pelcula la inmigracin, la represin moral y religiosa, la aliena-
Marina Komsic cin socioeconmica. Y tres partes autnomas que, sin embargo,
se entrelazan cinematogrficamente en efmeras ocasiones: unas
Produccin secuencias se repiten, pero filmadas desde otro punto de vista,
Film Factory redefiniendo la percepcin de los personajes y entonces del es-
Luca Films pectador, un recurso flmico sutilmente utilizado y absolutamente
genial.
Sbastien Blayac
One of the effects of drug
violence is the brutal alienation of
people from their surroundingsit
destroys the social context and
prevents mobility, relationships,
and contact with the environment
itself.
Eva Sangiorgi
FILMOGRAFA Los rboles no dejan ver el bosque (The Trees Hide the Forest) (2016), Los silencios (The
SELECTA Silences) (2014), El rbol (The Tree) (2012), Los murmullos (The Murmurs) (2012).
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Los rboles no
dejan ver el bosque
The Trees Hide The Forest
Mxico
2016
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alienacin de la gente con su entorno: destruye el contexto social,
impide la movilidad, las relaciones, el contacto con el propio
ambiente.
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The film by lvarez Franco
is the representation of an
anomaly. In Mexico, it is pos-
sible to live in peace and in
an equitable and ecological
economy. This discreet utopia
is the one portrayed by the di-
rector. Bosque de niebla has
little to do with that tendency
in a Mexican cinema seduced
by exploitation of poverty and
the concomitant aesthetics of
sordidness to represent it. This
is why the simplicity of the film
seems almost like a transgression, and its will to transmit a solidary experience between menand in
turn with the other speciesseems an obstinacy.
The protagonists are members of a cooperative which, in 1996, in Veracruz, set out to live under different
parameters of development. The general philosophy is permaculture, of which some of the principles
are explained in a part in which the youngsters of the community attend their school formation. Nothing
of what is seen is suspicious; the precepts of Bill Mollison and David Holmgren are not communicated
as the ABC of a dogma, but as a pragmatic truth that upholds the general practice in which everyone is
immersed. This discreet anti-dogmatism can be verified in the conversations that the youngsters have
when they are discussing their future. That one of them dreams of joining the military seems incongruent,
but its perhaps the greatest symbolic success of the whole experience.
lvarez Franco chooses to inquire little into the motives and origins of the community, its enough for
him to show their day-to-day dynamics and some of their leisure moments. The farmer who whistles
incessantly the famous theme by Pedro Infante, Amorcito corazn, represents a general spiritit so
happens that happiness here is a policy that vindicates relationships, even at work.
Bosque de niebla would not be the film that it is if the programmatic desire of looking and listening to
an ecosystem didnt exist. The meticulous frames of microscopic life and the sounds of the forest have
a reason to existto convey the feeling of surroundings as an extension of the domestic sphere. The
magnificent wide shot of a woodpecker and the sound of its pecking is an accurate example of a whole
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Roger Koza
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2017
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En Mxico se puede vivir en paz y en una economa equitativa y
ecolgica. Esta discreta utopa es la que retrata la directora. Poco
tiene que ver Bosque de niebla con esa corriente del cine mexicano
seducida por la explotacin de la miseria y su concomitante esttica
de la sordidez para representarla. Es por eso que la candidez del
film parece casi una transgresin, y su voluntad de transmitir una
Direccin experiencia solidaria entre los hombres y de estos con las otras
Guin especies, una obstinacin.
Mnica lvarez Franco
Fotografa Los protagonistas son los miembros de una cooperativa que en
Carlos Rossini 1996, en Veracruz, se propusieron vivir bajo otros parmetros de
Luis Montalvo desarrollo. La filosofa general es la permacultura, de la que se
Edicin explicitan algunos de sus principios en un pasaje en el que los
Yibran Asuad jvenes de la comunidad realizan su formacin escolar. Nada de
Adrin Parisi lo que se ve despierta sospechas; los preceptos de Bill Mollison y
Sonido David Holmgren no se comunican como el ABC de un dogma, sino
Andrew Donaldson como una verdad pragmtica que sostiene la prctica general en
la que todos estn inmersos. Ese antidogmatismo discreto puede
Produccin verificarse en las conversaciones que mantienen los jvenes cuando
Viento del Norte Cine discuten sobre el porvenir. Que uno de ellos suee con ser militar
parece una incongruencia, pero es quizs el mayor xito simblico
de toda la experiencia.
Roger Koza
Casa Roshell is a place, hidden
within the shadows of Mexico
City, where men have the free-
dom to express and transform
themselvesa place where it is
possible to overcome the social
restrictions to which they are
confined, or to look for guilty
passions in the gloom; it is a
suspended space where who-
ever visits it is on a quest for
self-acceptance or self-identity,
or simply for a little fun.
The city offers itself as a den, but also as a scenery open for whoever is ready to embrace a new
consciousness. The film enunciates a militant spirit in favor of gay and transsexual rights in a playful
way. Roshell Terranova, the activist, and Liliana Alba, her partner, are in fact the administrators of Casa
Roshell. Thus, the film explores questions about sexuality and gender which affect the norms of our
society.
Moving between confession and performance, the film plays with the ambiguity of the toneit pushes
aside the curtain to a secret place where the protagonists express themselves, chat, have fun, and also
confess. Camila Jos Donoso codirected Naomi Campbel with Nicols Videla, a film which also explored
the question of identity. Donoso carries on, from conceptually metaphoric terms, with her interest on
transition.
Casa Roshell transits between analogic and digital image, leading us to constantly cross the border
between documentary and fiction. And the camerawhich renders perfectly the inner conflicts shades
of greyallows the characters to speak for themselves.
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2017
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de Mxico, donde los hombres tienen la libertad de expresarse y de
transformarse; un sitio donde es posible superar las restricciones
sociales en las que estn confinados, o de buscar pasiones
inconfesables en la penumbra. Es un espacio suspendido donde
quien lo visita, est en la bsqueda de una aceptacin o de una
identidad propia, o simplemente de un poco de diversin.
Eva Sangiorgi
The film opens with some
images of surrealist paintings on
pre-Columbian Mayan life and
the presence of flying objects,
while an off-screen voice is
heard enunciating a series of
sophisticated technical terms in
the Mayan language (interface,
e-mail, operating system, virtual
reality, etceterawords that
are, a priori, untranslatable).
Ciudad Maya introduces us
to the mystery of this culture
and its intrinsic configuration of
thoughts and knowledge.
An insight on the representation of contemporary Mayan identity, the short film by Andrs Padilla
Domene (visual artist) is located at the frontier between documentary and science-fictionthe film takes
place in a distant mythical past, and a fictional present and future, where a group of youngsters from
Merida, Yucatan, operate strange machines, luminous improvised devices inspired by technologies used
in current archeologyin a site in ruins that is a modern replica of an ancient heritage site.
Formally precise (there is a remarkable rotational sequence-shot of four people), Ciudad Maya is a short
film/essay on the mutations of a culture, where cinema pretends to be an archeological tool through the
construction, en abyme, of images.
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Mxico - Francia
2016
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la vida maya precolombina y la presencia de objetos voladores,
mientras se escucha una voz en off pronunciando una serie de
trminos tcnicos sofisticados en lengua maya (interfaz, correo
electrnico, sistema operativo, realidad virtual, etctera; palabras
a priori, intraducibles). Ciudad Maya nos introduce en el misterio
de esta cultura y su inherente configuracin de pensamientos y
Direccin conocimientos.
Guin
Edicin Reflexin sobre la representacin de la identidad maya
Andrs Padilla Domene contempornea, el cortometraje de Andrs Padilla Domene artista
Fotografa visual, se ubica en la frontera entre el documental y la ciencia
Dalia Huerta Cano ficcin: la pelcula se despliega entre un pasado lejano mtico,
Sonido un presente y un futuro ficcional, donde un grupo de jvenes de
Homero Gonzlez Snchez Mrida, Yucatn, operan unas mquinas extraas, unos dispositivos
Msica luminosos improvisados e inspirados en tecnologas utilizadas
Pat Boy por la arqueologa actual, en un sitio en ruinas que es una rplica
Homero Gonzlez Snchez moderna de un antiguo sitio patrimonial.
MC Chicob
Reparto Formalmente preciso es de notar un plano secuencia rotativo
Andrs Chi Cob alias MC Chicob sobre cuatro personas Ciudad Maya es un cortometraje-ensayo
Jos Chi sobre las mutaciones de una cultura, donde el cine aparenta ser
Lorenzo Itz una herramienta arqueolgica a travs de la construccin en
Claudia Ocampo abismo de las imgenes.
Jess Pat Chabl alias Pat Boy
Feliciano Snchez Chan Sbastien Blayac
Sasil Snchez Chan
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arts contemporains
How to film the complex
universe of a teenage single
mother? In her second feature
film, Mexican director and
photographer Dariela Ludlow
attempts to offer an answer to
this question while shaping an
intuitive and entirely honest film.
Esa era Dania is a film in which inexact, dispossessed images prevail and in which a refined staging
forfeits its place of preponderancy to the intention of a closer approach to the protagonist character.
Without a doubt, the directorand even more so, the cinematographerchallenged herself through this
aesthetic exercise which may lack everything but a keen eye.
Towards the half of the film, Ludlow sketches a second narrative line Dania watching Danias film
which wipes off all possible borders between fiction and reality. The staging of this scene is unique; lying
down on a coach in her living room, Dania watches on a TV screen some scenes in which she actedbut,
did she really act?and analyzes them, faces them, is moved by them. A film within a film, this resource
causes a change which affects all senses in the inner and outer world of the films character; the fictitious
one, as well as the real one.
After almost five years in the making, Ludlows film reminds us that cinema can transform worlds. And
Danias is no exception to this.
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FILMOGRAFA Esa era Dania (That Was Dania) (2016), Un da menos (One Day Less) (2009), Tr3s (Three)
SELECTA (2007).
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y soltera? En su segundo largometraje, la directora y fotgrafa
mexicana Dariela Ludlow ensaya una posible respuesta al mismo
tiempo que da forma a un film intuitivo y enteramente honesto.
Laura Alderete
In a recent interview, Pablo
Escoto said: When we went
out the Lorenzo Rodrguez
Ship, one of the fishermen
told me he hoped we could
appreciate their suffering. We
believe this is the best path
to do that. But, really, what is
this path? To register time as
endless duration in a small boat
while some men cast their nets,
wait, gather, select, and clean
their fish catch. However, the
title is no less mysterious in face
of the simplicity of this labor and way of life. Besides, the first chapter is titled To the Immaculate Plains.
The alluded geography doesnt coincide with the filmed one.
In the political line of someone like Pablo Chavarra, perhaps the only previous reference for this poetic
essay on labor and, diffusely, on the history of Mexico, Escoto offers a set of visual, textual, and sound
relationships that are hard to identify at first but are dispersed throughout the film. The quotations of literary
references differ in time and spacefragments of Homer are quoted, as well as Pico della Mirandolas
and Ral Zuritas, among others; an allusion to Aztlan is made, and Columbus is remembered. The non-
historicity of the sea, or the dilated time on a horizon with no references, is in dissonance with these signs
that do belong to a specific time and place.
In the second part of the film, To the Gulf of Mexico, there is a brief and even more enigmatic fragmenta
young woman who is making sweets in some village abandons her task and goes for a walk through
the woods at sunset. An inscription, 1,000 years of oblivion. The solution when faced with a film of this
nature is to participate in it with the same disposition with which one reads poetry. In that sense, there
are some very beautiful sequences, such as when a fisherman goes to sleep and begins snoring and then
the film explores life underwater. The edition-imposed relationship between the dream and the primitive
life of octopuses, lobsters, and starfish is aesthetically sagacious.
Escoto is very young indeedhes a little over 20; his ambition may puzzle, charm, and even anger, but
serious seekers know thats what the game is like.
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FESTIVALES 2016 FICValdivia. Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia; Transcinema Festival Internacional de
Y PREMIOS Cine.
Mxico
2016
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barco Lorenzo Rodrguez, uno de los pescadores me dijo que
esperaba apreciramos su sufrimiento. Creemos que esta es la
mejor forma de hacerlo. De qu manera? Registrando el tiempo
como duracin sin fin en un navo pequeo mientras algunos
hombres tiran las redes, esperan, juntan, seleccionan y limpian la
pesca. Sin embargo, el ttulo no deja de ser misterioso frente a la
Direccin simpleza de esta labor y forma de vida. Adems, el primer captulo
Pablo Escoto se titula A las inmaculadas llanuras. La geografa aludida no
Fotografa coincide con la geografa filmada.
Jess Nez
Edicin En la lnea potica de un Pablo Chavarra, quiz la nica
Salvador Amores referencia precedente para este ensayo potico sobre el trabajo
Sonido y, difusamente, sobre la historia de Mxico, Escoto propone un
Pablo Escoto conjunto de relaciones visuales, textuales y sonoras que resulta
Cooper Gillespie difcil identificar de inmediato pero que estn dispersas en la
Reparto pelcula. Las referencias literarias citadas difieren en tiempo y
David Grande Yepez espacio: se citan fragmentos de Homero, Pico della Mirandola y
Salvador Parra Alfonso Ral Zurita, entre otros; se alude a Aztln y se recuerda a Coln.
Francisco Eustaquio Zarate La ahistoricidad del mar, o el tiempo dilatado en un horizonte sin
Vctor Ramn Jimnez referencia, entra en disonancia con estos signos que s pertenecen
Lorenzo Rodrguez Sols a un periodo y a un lugar.
Anglica Gonzlez
Fernanda Gonzlez En la segunda parte del film, Al Golfo de Mxico, hay un breve
fragmento todava ms enigmtico: una mujer joven que est
Produccin haciendo dulce en algn pueblo abandona la tarea y parte a una
Ros de Nueva caminata por el bosque en el atardecer. Una inscripcin: 1 000
aos de olvido. La solucin frente a un film de esta naturaleza es
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En ese sentido, hay algunos planos muy hermosos, como cuando
un pescador se duerme y empieza a roncar y a continuacin el
film explora la vida submarina. La relacin impuesta por el montaje
entre el sueo y la vida primitiva de pulpos, langostas y estrellas de
mar es estticamente sagaz.
Roger Koza
Jean Epsteins quote at the
beginningand above all the
last sentence (The unity of what
moves and what is moved, the
ubiquity of life itself)places
the film in a cinematic paradigm
that is not narrative but
perceptive. Chavarra Gutirrez
tries to film two movementsthe
one of those who are on Earth
and the one of the sphere itself,
floating in space. The first one is
possible to film, the second one
is inferred. In another quote
without reference but congruent with the first onethat is not read but said through the voice of a boy, he
asserts: The task of the filmmaker is like Plancksto find dark matter which can be inferred from whats
visible. These are two ambitious poetic declarations thrown at his audience by a filmmaker.
The physical organization of the film consists of a few motifs which repeat themselves (at different
speeds) and reverberate at the distance, suggesting signs more poetic than philosophic, more sensorial
than narrativea man walks down the street; a woman looks from a window; on a road, at night, a car is
seen passing and sometimes a man moves in the opposite direction. There are also several passages in
which animals, plants, and rocks are discovered in very close-up shots which eclipse their recognition. In
other segments, only men, dogs, and turtles are perceived. What everything in front of the camera has in
common is that everything is moving. Movement is the condition of the living, and beings are defined in
durationChavarra Gutirrez tries to record this perpetual progression.
If movement is the theme of the film, then perception cant be fixated. Instability is here another dimension
of reality. Thats why at certain moments the very nature of the images acquires folds and slightly wiggles,
imitating the movement of water. Also, the sound dimension refuses synchronicity with the image. Sound
is another movement, even more mysterious than image.
Roger Koza
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FILMOGRAFA La tierra an se mueve (Still the Earth Moves) (2017), Las letras(The Letters) (2015),
SELECTA Alexfilm(2015), El resto del mundo(The Rest of the World) (2014),Tapetum Lucidum(2013),
Terrafeni(2012).
La tierra an se
mueve
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(La unidad de lo que mueve y de lo que es movido, la ubicuidad
de la vida misma) sitan al film en un paradigma cinematogrfico
que no es narrativo sino perceptivo. Chavarra Gutirrez intenta
filmar dos movimientos: el de los que estn en la Tierra y el de
la propia esfera que flota en el espacio. Lo primero es posible, lo
segundo se infiere. En otra cita sin referencia pero en consonancia
Direccin con la primera que no se lee sino que es dicha por la voz de un
Edicin nio, se afirma: La tarea del cineasta se parece a la de Planck:
Pablo Chavarra Gutirrez encontrar materia oscura que puede deducirse de lo visible. He
Fotografa aqu dos ambiciosas declaraciones poticas que un cineasta lanza
Jos Luis Arriaga a su pblico.
Sonido
Gerardo Villareal La organizacin fsica del film consiste en algunos motivos que
Msica se repiten (en distintas velocidades) y reverberan a la distancia
Julio Torres sugiriendo signos ms poticos que filosficos, ms sensoriales
Reparto que narrativos: un hombre camina en la calle; una mujer mira desde
Eli Zavala una ventana; en una ruta, de noche, se ve pasar un auto y a veces
Susana Herrera a un hombre que se desplaza en direccin contraria. Hay tambin
Alejandro Alva varios pasajes en los que se descubren animales, plantas y rocas
en primersimos planos que eclipsan el reconocimiento. En otros
Produccin segmentos solamente se perciben hombres, perros y tortugas.
Cinematogrfica y Lo que tiene en comn todo aquello que est frente a cmara es
Escnica de Mxico que se mueve. El desplazamiento es la condicin de lo viviente y
los seres se definen en la duracin; Chavarra Gutirrez trata de
registrar ese perpetuo devenir.
Roger Koza
William Clauson is a Swed-
ish-American folk singer who
ended up living in the so-called
Pasaje Rodrguez, in Tijuana.
This is the premise of the story
told by Ricardo Silva (Navajazo,
FICUNAM 2014) and Omar Guz-
mn, who was the editor of Sil-
vas first feature. The film opens
in Sweden, home to the oldest
tree in the world, which seems
to have a connection with Clau-
son or with a more general idea
that permeates through the film.
William, el nuevo maestro del judo is a work about territoriality and time, about the life time that
unavoidablyleads to death. The filmmakers build a game of mirages through the splitting of space
(Mexico and Sweden); time (William today, old, and when he was younger); people (the real William and
the actor Edward Coward [Las elegidas, David Pablos, 2015]); and, finally, reality and fiction (or truth
and lies). This binomial quality is perhaps a characteristic tension in the Silva-Guzmns films.
The film questions the dimension of time, which is sometimes unclear and gets foggier as people grow
old. Memory can extend it, aspiring to a time becoming eternal. Perhaps the comments in the preamble of
the film go along that direction, belonging to a pessimist and irreverent worldview. The initial frame, like a
Rembrandt painting, reveals that the composition is being portrayedin this casefor the camera. This is
a declaration of the filmmakers poetics; the film stands in balance between registersthe documentary,
performance art, and fiction, and in the ambiguity of becoming recognizable.
It matters little knowing if this is really Williams story, Edwards, or the authors. Or a mix, possibly.
Eva Sangiorgi
FESTIVALES 2017 Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Los
84 Y PREMIOS Cabos.
Omar Guzmn
William, el nuevo maestro del judo (William, the New Judo Master) (2016).
William, el nuevo
maestro del judo
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termin viviendo en el llamado Pasaje Rodrguez, en Tijuana. Esta
es la premisa de la historia que cuenta Ricardo Silva (Navajazo,
FICUNAM 2014) junto a Omar Guzmn, quien haba sido editor
de su primer largometraje. Empieza en Suecia, donde radica el
rbol ms longevo del mundo, que parece tener una conexin con
Clauson o con una idea ms general que permea la pelcula.
Direccin
Guin William, el nuevo maestro del judo es un trabajo acerca de la
Ricardo Silva territorialidad y del tiempo; el de la vida, que inevitablemente lleva
Omar Guzmn a la muerte. Los realizadores construyen un juego de espejismos
Fotografa a travs del desdoblamiento del espacio (Mxico y Suecia); del
Adrin Durazo tiempo (William al da de hoy, viejo, y cuando era ms joven); de
Edicin personas (el William real y el actor Edward Coward [Las elegidas,
Sonido David Pablos, 2015]); y finalmente, de realidad y ficcin o de
Omar Guzmn verdad y mentira. Este binomio es quizs una tensin caracterstica
Msica del cine Silva-Guzmn.
William Clauson
Tony Ronald La pelcula cuestiona la dimensin del tiempo, que a veces es
Reparto poco claro, algo que se va haciendo brumoso por el envejecer.
William Clauson El recuerdo la puede tensar, aspirando a un tiempo que se haga
Edward Coward eterno. Quiz vayan en esa direccin los comentarios del prembulo
Hoze Melndez del film, que pertenecen a una visin cosmognica pesimista e
Pako Houston irreverente. El encuadre inicial, como en un Rembrandt, devela que
Jos Jimnez la composicin se est retratando, en este caso, para la cmara. Es
una declaracin de la potica de los autores: la pelcula se sostiene
Produccin en el equilibrio entre registros: el documental, el performance y la
Spcola ficcin; y en la ambigedad de hacerse reconocibles.
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Cine Canbal Poco importa saber si es realmente William, su historia, la de
Edward, o la de los autores. O una mezcla, posiblemente.
Eva Sangiorgi
Joel seems to have defined his
life priorities very well. His hawk
and his mother are the elements
that keep him busy, the first be-
cause it is his hobby and the
latter because of dependence.
He practices falconry with the
same passion his mother feels
for medicine; however, he finds
it impossible to deal with both
in parallel. His incapacity to at-
tain independence permanently
hinders his relationship with her
and, at the same time, lays out a
safety zone for him.
Even though there is a precedent of Miguel Caldern in cinema, following the showcasing of his work in
Wes Andersons, it is now that he directs his first film outside the walls of multidisciplinary art, inside of
which he can be seen so well-adjusted and free. Zeus, a film that Caldern himself defines as a merely
narrative and fictional work, is also the acting debut for Daniel Saldaa Pars, a Mexican writer who
interprets Joel and manages to insert himself convincingly on stagea high middle-class antisocial life
of comfort.
The Roman Polanski of Knife in the Water (1962) is supposed to be one of Calderns motivations for
emulating the exploration of the relationships of characters in the film, which seems to be his main goal.
Sexuality and co-dependence are the overarching themes and they intensify towards the end of the film.
The falcon functions as a vessel suggesting an oedipal perversion and, at the same time, serving as Joels
shield and weapon.
Later on, someone else will appear as a third element and main emotional destabilizer for Joel, who
along with an accident suffered by his hawkis put into a situation where taking decisions will threaten
him and lead him to rethink his priorities and needs in life; or perhaps this will only make him lose
balance and give in to the fear of changing too much the unhealthybut at the same time firmcircle that
surrounds him. Anyway, we wont know.
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su madre son los elementos que lo mantienen ocupado; el primero
por aficin y el segundo por dependencia. Practica la cetrera con el
mismo ahnco que su madre lo hace con la medicina, sin embargo,
le es imposible lidiar con ambas cosas de manera paralela. Su
incapacidad de independencia entorpece permanentemente su
relacin con ella y al mismo tiempo le traza una zona de seguridad.
Direccin
Guin Aunque existe un antecedente de Miguel Caldern en el cine
Miguel Caldern tras la aparicin de su obra en la de Wes Anderson, es ahora
Fotografa cuando dirige su primer pelcula fuera de los muros del arte
Matas Penachino multidisciplinario, dentro de los que tan bien habituado y libre se
Mara Jos Secco le observa. Zeus, una cinta que l mismo define como un trabajo
Edicin meramente narrativo y de ficcin, es tambin el debut actoral de
Mariana Rodrguez Daniel Saldaa Pars, escritor mexicano que interpreta a Joel, y el
Sonido que logra insertarse de manera convincente en el escenario: una
Pablo Tamez vida antisocial de clase media alta y comodidad.
Msica
Herminio Gutirrez El Roman Polanski de El cuchillo en el agua (1962) supone
Reparto ser uno de los motivadores de Caldern a la hora de emular la
Daniel Saldaa Pars exploracin de las relaciones entre los personajes de la pelcula, lo
Ana Tern que aparenta ser su principal objetivo. El sexual y la codependencia
Diana Sedano son los temas que apuntalan ms alto y arrecian sobre el final de la
Mauricio Caldern cinta. El halcn funciona como vehculo que sugiere una perversin
Paris Roa edpica y al mismo tiempo le sirve a Joel de escudo y arma.
Luis Rivera
ACIERTOS.
ENCUENTRO
INTERNACIONAL DE
ESCUELAS DE CINE
Feats. International Film
Schools Meeting
In the city of Jalisco,
simultaneously with the so
called narco-blockades, this
short film focuses on the life of
a middle-class man who returns
home after a day at work. The
viral lack of communication
within a monotonous family
leads the main character out
onto the streets. Neither his son
nor his wife have the insight to
notice anything wrong in his
behavior.
Jalisco witnesses the attack of armed commando groups, leaving behind many dead and wounded.
Clouds of smoke have come out to greet citizens. A nameless character is about to give into the criminal
impulses which have been growing uncontrollably in his conduct. The Jalisco landscape that surrounds
this man is entering code redalong with the early hours, the prostitutes, and his inner demonsto take
from him any remaining trace of serenity.
Carlos Rg
FILMOGRAFA Bestia (Beast) (2016), Aurelia y Pedro (2016), Afuera (Outside) (2015).
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Tardgrada Producciones
A paradox is like the absence of
light to perceive things on a field
in the middle of summer. The
sound of a common day mixes
with the voices of dissatisfied
people, voices rejecting the
violence of the country they
were born in. Crisis, drug lords,
cruelty, assassinations, violent
images in mass media. What
to do? What to say? What to
lean on? Where to look? The
bewilderment is over; today,
days are spent working for
money and graveyards are manipulated by several killers. The candor of childhood is crushed by violence
whilst the effect of greed and indebtedness of the spirit wont atone for guilt. A consciousness alienated
from what is lived is a blind consciousness.
Pepe Gutirrezs gaze recreatesby means of economizing formal elements, the horror and the outrage
of an assassination, and of a violence which snatches away the lives of anonymous people.
Carlos Rg
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Martil; Festival Axolotl de Cine Escaparates; Festival del
Y PREMIOS Puerto, Mxico, Mejor Cortometraje; Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia; Shorts Mxico.
Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Mxico; Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca.
FILMOGRAFA El brillo de tus ojos se extinguir con la oscuridad del mundo (The Bright of Your Eyes Will Ex-
SELECTA tinguish With The Darkness Of The World) (2016), Te prometo nunca regresar (I Promise You to
Never Come Back) (2016), Los pjaros miran hacia el norte (Birds Look North) (2014).
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El brillo de tus ojos
se extinguir con la
oscuridad del mundo
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of the World
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Produccin
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Cinematogrficos CUEC
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The physical and emotional jour-
ney through the images of this
short film rebuilds the story of
a family during the 1994 sum-
mer at a place called Casa de
los Lpulos, in Puerto Vallarta.
There, as in a parade, we see
a series of anecdotes which fill
the gap between past and pre-
sent. Placesjust like memory
shelter something more than
that which is immediately vis-
ible. The similarities between a
human face and the shapes in
the lines of a road are edited to weave togetheras waves, or twining vinesthe voice telling the tale.
Through keen reflection, rhythm and symbolisms invite the viewer to determine how hard we must cling to
the experience of life. When the world of objects vanishes into time, its wearing away is never extirpated
from memory and its meaning is reinforced in the words which guide the experience. And it abidesin
voices and some memories.
Carlos Rg
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mrida y
Y PREMIOS Yucatn, Mejor Cortometraje Mexicano; Festival Internacional de Cine de Monterrey; Shorts
Mxico. Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Mxico; Festival Internacional de Cine de
Morelia; Festival del Puerto, Mxico, Mencin Honorfica; FIDOCS. Festival Internacional de
Documentales de Santiago, Premio Monsiuer Guillaume Mejor Cortometraje; Bogoshorts. Festival
de Cortos de Bogot.
FILMOGRAFA La casa de los Lpulos (Lupulos House) (2016), Aos luz (Light Years) (2014).
SELECTA
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La casa de los
lpulos
Lupulos House
Mxico
2016
24
16 mm, super 8, digital
color
Produccin
Distribucin
Centro de Capacitacin
Cinematogrfica CCC
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Huanga general of the Army,
now retired and living his senior
yearskeeps Chinese traditions
alivetea cups, calligraphy,
traditional games, and masks.
Huang lives alone, in a peaceful
universe of his own. One day,
his grandson pays him a visit
and, with the swiftness and
curiosity of youth, changes the
rhythm in which Huang lives.
It becomes necessary to ask
how traditions can be kept alive
in a place in which technology
changes the order of time. Huangs grandson has a tablet in which he plays Go, also known as Weiqi,
the most traditional board game in China, considered an essential art in that culture. Huang knows it and
also learns from his grandson. Then, he agrees to play using the device.
A visual work which carefully uses shapes and shots to film a confrontation between two generations
which coexist united by a genealogical bond.
Carlos Rg
FESTIVALES Y 2017 Muestra de Cine de Tiradentes 2016 Festival Internacionalde Cortometrajes de So Paulo,
PREMIOS Mejor Pelcula Brasilea LGBT; FAB. FestivaldeAudiovisualdeBelm, Mejor Cortometraje,
Mejor Cortometraje de Ficcin, Mejor Banda Sonora; Mostra Formiga Independente Vale do
Paraba, Mejor Cortometraje; Recifest. Festival de Cinema da Diversidad Sexual y de Gnero,
Mejor Cortometraje Brasileo (Jurado Popular), Mencin Honorfica de la FEPEC (Federacin
Pernambucana de Cineclubes); Primeiro Plano. Festival de Juiz de Fora y Mercociudades, Mejor
pelcula (Jurado Joven), Mejor Direccin de Arte, Mejor Fotografa; Festival de Cine Tamoio de So
Gonalo, Mejor Cortometraje LGBT, Mejor Direccin de Arte.
Brasil
2016
22
35 mm
color
Produccin
Fundao Armando Alvares
Penteado FAAP 97
Celso Rosa translates nature
into abstract patterns, flashes,
and other visual and sound
means to rekindle an old ro-
mance. The texture of fire, wa-
ter, a few flies, and a womans
face offer a cloak of fantasy
inviting the spectator to par-
ticipate in the filmmakers en-
deavor to give corporality to a
love affair.
Through experimental editing, Curriculum vitae 01 (Te faruru?) turns an old passion into a playful
object.
Carlos Rg
ESTRENO
MUNDIAL
FILMOGRAFA Curriculum vitae 01 (te faruru?) [Currculum vitae 01 (te faruru?)] (2016), At ch virar caf
SELECTA (Until Tea turns to Coffee) (2016), Gapiarra (2016).
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Curriculum vitae 01
(Te faruru?)
Currculum vitae 01 (te
faruru?)
Portugal
2016
9
digital
color
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New York and two people
from Buenos Aires, Renzo
and Mariana; neither of the
characters can hide their
introspective and somewhat
innocent personalities. Installed
right in the suburbs of the
navel of the world, they are
lost between parties and an
occasional academic interview.
FESTIVALES 2016 Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena; Festival Internacional de Cine Entrevues
Y PREMIOS Belfort; Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife.
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Dear Renzo
QUERIDA RENZO
Argentina Estados
Unidos
2016
20
digital
color
Nueva York y un par de bonaerenses: Renzo y Mariana. Ambos
Produccin
Universidad del Cine, Argentina
Bingham Bryant 101
Somewhere in the rural
territory of Mexico lives Juan;
a drunkard, a traveler, and a
lover of horses and paroxysms.
One could say Juan breathes
in an air of minuscule and
meaningless actions, except for
his relationship with his nephew
and with the horse his father
gave him before passing away.
He bathes the horse, talks to
it, grooms it. His troubled life
come to a halt, to a truce, in
front of the horse and of the boy.
We know Juan by the consequences of his actions and the secretiveness of his gestures. The slow
motions and the black horse modulate the fate of a low-income family. The fire within Juan scorches
whatever it touches; and his actions, rather than a loud laugh of destiny, suggest a drama in this
adventurean impending murder.
Carlos Rg
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia; Festival de Cannes, Short Film Corner.
Y PREMIOS
102
Fuego que lleva
The Fire WITHIN
Mxico
2016
29
digital
color
En alguna parte del territorio rural de Mxico vive Juan, un borracho,
Produccin
ESCINE Escuela Superior
de Cine 103
NAAY Films
Distribucin
NAAY Films
There is no rigorous aesthetic
to configure the gaze of the
spectator in order to seduce his
or her judgments, nor scripts
outlining actions. Materia
prima shows, in a documentary
way, how life is lived in a mining
camp in Curanilahue, one of the
biggest provinces of Arauco,
Chile. Without being suggestive
on the whole, Mellados work
deal with an homageeach July
29th the lives of 21 people are
commemorated. These people
died in a carbon mine in 1989, when the dynamite used to extract the black gold from the subsoil
exploded. Castao 5 is the name of the mine where the tragedy occurred whilst these miners were
doing their job pirquen style, meaning without safe conditions. The filmmaker reflects on the constant
danger the miners face at work. The twenty-one people who drownedat a depth of some 450-meters
undergroundare the main characters of this short film, and Castao 5 is a silent witness to those deeds.
Carlos Rg
FESTIVALES Y 2017 FECICH. Festival de Cine Chileno 2016 Festival de Cine y Muestra de Santa Mara, Chile,
PREMIOS Primer Lugar; Festival Internacional de Documentales de Ierapreta, Primer Lugar Internacional;
Festival Kinoarte de Cinema; Cinecip. Festival de Cinema Socioambiental; Festival de Cine de
La Serena; SANFIC. Santiago Festival Internacional de Cine; Festival de Cine en las Montaas,
Colombia; Tlanchana Fest. Festival de Cine y Arte Digital; Festival Internacional de Cine de
Bagdad; Cine a la Calle. Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes.
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Materia prima
Raw Material
Chile
2016
11
digital
color
No hay una rigurosa esttica que configure la mirada del espectador
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This short film is centered on
the life of a woman with healing
powers, a healer who says to
the camera that many have
dreamed about her. In those
dreams, she can be seen being
affectionate towards children,
her homeland, and nature. For
her, her power is not individual,
but collective. The river, the
wicket, some wooden crosses
can be found near the house
where people come to visit her.
To her, spiritualism and nature
are one and the same. Nature moves everything; like the air, which no one sees; invisible things move
us, she claims.
In Cuba, a trained physician coexists with a healer, and people even go to the latter to heal their diseases.
Moreover, a trained physician is now a healer too. Providence, mercy, the act of curing with words, of
making things by hand. Sounds and movements that claim to heal all illnesses.
Carlos Rg
ESTRENO
MUNDIAL
106
La Pura
Cuba
2016
12
digital
color
Produccin
Escuela Internacional de Cine
y Televisin EICTV
107
Take Away portrays the fast-
food generation. A toy in the
hands of fate, a Russian rou-
lette, an insignificant object.
Fuck! You dont give a shit
about anything I say! Intense
and visceral. Out-of-focus ges-
tures offer an alternative to old
examples for reality representa-
tion. Blurred elements between
scenes, plots made of associa-
tions of memories, dreams, and
thoughts; games which formal-
ize absurd conversations, mov-
ing objectsspoons, caps, words, hamburgers, leaves, jumps, neon lights among teenagers. The doors
of a Burger King and 27 whoppers to take away. Blurry tiny lightbulbs and a funeral. Allegoric food.
Leisure in opposition to a janitor with an orange moustache, cleaning the floor. Supply and demand, the
end of a morning. No way to find a single pejorative tone in delirious conversations. We face deliriant
creativity in a visual essay which allows itself to find its own intuitions.
Carlos Rg
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival de Cine VAULT; Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Escuelas de Cine Beirut;
Y PREMIOS Porto/Post/Doc. Festival de Cine & Media; FIFE. Festival Internacional de Escuelas de Cine
Casablanca; Festival de Cine de Lisboa y Estoril, Encuentro de Escuelas de Cine Europeas;
SEMINCI. Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid; Concurso de Cortometrajes Abycine;
Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastin, Encuentro de Escuelas; Festival Internacional de
Cortometrajes de So Paulo; Festival de Cine de Lima; Festival Internacional de Escuelas de Cine
Tel Aviv; Festival de Cannes, Short Film Corner.
Espaa
2016
14
digital
color
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Distribucin
Escuela de Cine y Audiovisual de la
Comunidad de Madrid ECAM
A terceira metade plays with
light and shadow and one char-
acters awakening into adult-
hood. Geometric images are
a measure of the intensity that
can be reached by a young
mans idea of his mentor. Neigh-
bourhoods, housing units, and
soccer courts shelter a reality
which will soon disappear. The
editing work offers us clues of
irresolvable personality prob-
lems, as we see the two main
characters within the scenery of
Lisbons slums.
One never knows a person definitively; when we think we do, habit or comfort weigh heavier. The un-
known attracts our senses more, we can expect things we havent yet seen and we treat the other not
as a previous image but as someone alive of whom we may know who he or she has been in the past,
but not his or her definition. Knowing a person was never easy, let alone on a scorching day and at age
sixteen.
Carlos Rg
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A terceira metade
The Third Half
El tercer tiempo
Portugal
2016
11
digital
byn
Produccin
Distribucin
Universidade Lusfona
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manifiesto
CONTEMPORNEO
CONTEMPORARY MAnifesto
Lav Diaz is an unclassifiable
filmmaker; outstanding because
of his formats, his productivity,
and for his dazzling poetics.
In three years, he has won in
three of the most important
festivals such as Locarno and
Berlin, and in Venice with Ang
babaeng humayo.
Horacia Somorostro is brilliantly interpreted by Charo Santos-Concio (who had collaborated with Diaz in
his previous film, the winner of the Golden Bear, and with other relevant Philippine filmmakers, including
the great Lino Brocka). The topics of assassination and forgiveness come from Lev Tolstoys tale God
Sees the Truth, But Waits, from which the filmmaker draws inspiration freely. The protagonist seeks to
kill the man who condemned her to thirty years of imprisonment. She isolates herself in the countryside
while patiently preparing her revenge, for which she is willing to walk away from her identity and family.
Reality around her breaks down, as apparently does the world at large. Diaz is able to record this in a
respectful and humble black-and-white, and in a composition of fixed shotsa language of surprising
austerity and beauty.
Horacia becomes a pillar for a community exposed to misery and terror; particularly for Hollanda, a
transgender prostitute who suffers the barbarities of her clients. This is a tale about compassion and
solidarity between people, like the one Horacia and Hollanda share as they sing excerpts from the
Hollywood musicals they dream about.
Eva Sangiorgi
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FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia, Len de Oro Mejor Pelcula; Festival Internacional
Y PREMIOS de Cine de Toronto; BFI. Festival de Cine de Londres.
FILMOGRAFA Ang babaeng humayo (The Woman Who Left) (2016), Hele sa hiwagang hapis (A Lullaby to
selecta the Sorrowful Mystery) (2016), Mula sa kung ano ang noon (From What is Before) (2014),
Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan (Norte, The End of History)(2013), Florentina Hubaldo, CTE
(2012), Century of Birthing (2011), Babae ng Hangin (Woman of The Wind) (2011), Walang
alaala ang mga paru-paro (Butterflies Have no Memories) (2009),Melancholia (2008), Kagadanan
Sa Banwaan Ning Mga Engkanto (Death in the Land of Encantos) (2007), Heremias, Unang
Aklat: Ang Alamat ng Prinsesang Bayawak (Heremias, Book One: The Legend of the Lizard
Princess)(2006), Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino (Evolution of a Filipino Family)(2004),
Hesus Rebolusyunaryo (Jesus, Revolutionary) (2002), Batang West Side (West Side Kid)(2002).
Ang babaeng humayo
The Woman Who Left
La mujer que se fue
Filipinas
2016
226
digital
byn
MANIFIESTO CONTEMPORNEO
formatos, por su productividad, por su potica deslumbrante. En
tres aos ha ganado en tres de los festivales ms importantes
de la escena mundial: en Locarno, Berln, y en Venecia con Ang
babaeng humayo.
Eva Sangiorgi
The title evokes the last novel
by the great W. G. Sebald
a pertinent statement. In this
book, the main character was
dedicated to the history of ar-
chitecture, while his memories
were wounded by the abject
tyranny of Nazism. Loznitsa fo-
cuses on the Sachsenhausen
concentration camp andin
around 40 open and medium
shotsshows the immeasur-
ability of the experiences lived
by thousands of people in that
place. The actual site is the same, the time is differentis it possible to make tourism out of the founda-
tions of extermination?
The architecture is also the same; its function, the oppositethe guides (young, mostly) try to bridge
the gap with their cautiously told accounts made to help visitors understand the incomprehensible. The
effort and search for accuracy is notable in some of these guides. An example is the risky but certain
explanation about the ineffectiveness of hope in the camps, as told by one guide; an interpretation
which overrides the information usually required in these cases. The logic of the guides clashes with
the often obscenely-trivial behavior of the tourists. It is understandable that some people may be unable
to perceive the horror, but for a woman to pose for a picture in front of the cremation chambers is
inadmissible and indicates a lack of historical conscience. This does not mean Loznitsa objects to all
visitors just because of that shot. Observation is not judgment.
Loznitsa is interested in registering the inadequacy between the past and the present, and he knows
this is not the first time he devotes a film to this periodthat there is always something unspeakable
in every attempt to represent the Holocaust. This may explain his decision not to intervene in todays
records with archive materialit suffices to see a crowd marching in the same direction to trigger in ones
memory an image of death marches.
Choosing Sachsenhausen in place of any other camp does not seem coincidental. Shortly after, it
became Special Camp Number 1, under Soviet leadership. The 20th century in general, and Nazism and
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Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia; DOK Leipzig, Paloma de Oro Mejor Documental;
Y PREMIOS Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto; Festival Internacional de Cine de Ro de Janeiro; Festival
de Cine de Gante; Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena; Festival de Cine Europeo de
Sevilla; Festival Internacional de Cine de Riga; DocLisboa. Festival Internacional de Cine; Listapad.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Minsk; Festival Internacional de Cine Molodist de Kiev.
FILMOGRAFA Austerlitz (2016), Sobytie (The Event) (2015), Maidan (Maidn) (2014), V tumane (In The Fog)
selecta (2012), Schaste moe (My Joy) (2010), Predstavlenye (Revue) (2008), Blokada (Blockade) (2005),
Landschaft (Landscape) (2003), Poselenie (The Settlement) (2001).
Austerlitz
Alemania
2016
94
digital
byn
MANIFIESTO CONTEMPORNEO
indicacin pertinente. En ese libro final el protagonista se dedicaba
a la historia de la arquitectura y a su vez tena su propia memoria
herida por la tirana abyecta del nazismo. Loznitsa se instala en el
campo de concentracin de Sachsenhausen y con unos cuarenta
planos generales y medios fijos hace ostensible lo inconmensurable
de la experiencia vivida por miles de personas en ese lugar. Mismo
Direccin espacio, otro tiempo: es posible hacer turismo en los cimientos
Guin del exterminio?
Sergei Loznitsa
Fotografa La arquitectura es la misma, su funcin la opuesta; los guas, en su
Sergei Loznitsa mayora jvenes, intentan zanjar la distancia con sus cuidadosos
Jesse Mazuch relatos para que los visitantes puedan entender lo incomprensible.
Edicin El empeo y la bsqueda de precisin de algunos son notables.
Danielius Kokanauskis Por ejemplo, la arriesgada pero indudable explicacin sobre la
Sonido ineficacia de la esperanza en los campos que esboza uno de ellos,
Vladimir Golovnitski una interpretacin que desborda el suministro de informacin
usualmente requerido en estos casos. La lgica contrapartida de
Produccin los guas pasa por las conductas, a veces obscenamente triviales,
Imperativ Film de los turistas. Es entendible que la percepcin del horror les est
vedada a algunos, pero que una mujer pose frente a cmara con los
hornos crematorios de fondo es inadmisible y denota inconsciencia
histrica. Eso no significa que con ese plano Loznitsa impugne a
todos los visitantes. Observar no es juzgar.
Roger Koza
A beautiful film about a long
epistolary relationship spanning
several decades (1957-1978)
between two Portuguese writ-
ersJorge de Sena and Sophia
de Mello Breyner Andresen.
Neither are among the living an-
ymore, so it involves a ghostly
correspondence taken up by a
mysterious spiritual community
formed by peopleall of them
involved in filmic endeavors
from various countries (France,
Russia, Argentina, Greece, and
of course, Portugal) who participate in this conclave reviving texts and letters.
In the beginning was chaos, saysamong other thingsa young girl looking straight at the camera; the
next frame shows a pan with oil, where a liquid will be poured. Immediately, the formless takes shape and
acquires volume. Is it a domestic representation of a cosmogonic dilemma? From here on, various men
and women read or reminisce about the two writers, whose relationship was marked by the disgrace
of living under Salazars dictatorship. Sena chose exilefirst, Brazil; then, the United States. He never
returned to his country. He became a stateless person.
To a great extent, this determines the raging and nostalgic epistolary tone, as well as the prose and poetry
of both. Even though they hardly appear onscreen, there are two extraordinary moments where they are
included in the mise en scne. In an interview televised in 1962included in the filmSophia and her
husband (Francisco de Souza Tavares) expose the political inconsistencies of their contemporaries, which
they see as a consequence of censorship and lack of information. Even more noteworthy is the fragment
showing Sena ranting and raving against any conformist notion of literature, and revendicating meeting with
friends at cafes. In one scene, a girl asks, what is exile? The whole film is a response to that question.
Correspondncias follows a tradition of film in which text intrudes on image in a completely modern
way, because it is not there as an auxiliary to lack of sound. Several sequences refer to the films of the
Straubs; the modes of reading, the distribution of bodies within the space, and the tight frames, all of
these bear the same aesthetic mark. But, here, there is also something else.
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FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno; Muestra Internacional de Cine de SoPaulo;
Y PREMIOS Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena; DocLisboa. Festival Internacional de Cine,
Premio Jos Saramago Mejor Documental; Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla; Zinebi. Festival
Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje de Bilbao.
Portugal
2016
145
digital
color
MANIFIESTO CONTEMPORNEO
dcadas (1957-1978) entre dos escritores portugueses: Jorge de
Sena y Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Ambos ya no estn entre
los vivos, por lo que se trata de una correspondencia fantasmal
retomada por una misteriosa comunidad espiritual conformada
por gente de cine de diversas nacionalidades (franceses, rusos,
argentinos, griegos y, lgicamente, portugueses) que participan en
Direccin este cnclave en el que se reviven textos y cartas.
Guin
Rita Azevedo Gomes En el inicio era el caos dice, entre otras cosas, una nia mirando
Fotografa a cmara; el plano siguiente muestra una sartn llena de aceite
Accio de Almeida en la que se verter un lquido. De inmediato, lo informe adquiere
Jorge Quintela figura y volumen. Una representacin domstica de un dilema
Edicin cosmognico? De ah en ms varios hombres y mujeres leen o
Patrcia Saramago rememoran a los dos escritores, cuya relacin estuvo signada por
Rita Azevedo Gomes la desgracia de vivir bajo la dictadura de Salazar. Serna eligi el
Sonido exilio: primero Brasil, despus Estados Unidos. Nunca regres a
Franois Guillaume su pas; siempre fue un aptrida.
Olivier Blanc
Msica Esto determina bastante el tono epistolar rabioso y nostlgico,
Alexander Zekke y tambin la prosa y la poesa de ambos. Si bien prcticamente
Reparto no se los ve, hay dos momentos extraordinarios en los que la
Rita Duro puesta en escena los incluye. En una entrevista televisiva de
Eva Truffaut 1962 incluida en el film, Sophia y su esposo (Francisco de Souza
Pierre Lon Tavares) exponen la inconsciencia poltica de sus coetneos, lo
Luis Miguel Cintra que estiman una consecuencia de la falta de informacin y de la
Mrio Fernandes censura. Ms notable es todava el fragmento en el que aparece
Anna Leppnen Sena despotricando contra toda nocin conformista de las letras
y reivindicando los encuentros con amigos en los cafs. En una 119
Produccin escena una nia pregunta: Qu es el exilio?. La respuesta es
Distribucin el film.
C.R.I.M.
Correspondncias se inscribe en una tradicin del cine en la
que el texto se inmiscuye en la imagen de un modo absolutamente
moderno porque no viene a auxiliar la falta de sonido. Varias
secuencias remiten al cine de los Straub; las modalidades de
lectura, la disposicin de los cuerpos en el espacio y los severos
encuadres tienen esa marca esttica. Pero es tambin otra cosa.
Roger Koza
As they chat a little about eve-
rything, Youngsoo tells a friend
that his mother is very sick. He
also confesses to him that he
wants to marry Mingjung. The
disapproval of his neighbor is
immediate; she may be a beau-
tiful woman, but she apparently
drinks too much and is a little
licentious. Rumors confirm this
suspicionshe isnt the most
convenient candidate. That
night, Youngsoo and Mingjung
will get into an argument and
take some time off each other.
The whole work of Hong is based on a ludic portrait of love-related (in)communication between men and
women of a specific (middle) class, and with ties to cinema and art. Each of his films shows a progress
on this dilemma, developed upon the basis of variations and repetitions which always seem to offer new
findings. The novelty has to do with establishing the whole game of desire under an ideal concept for
Hongs universe: the doppelgnger.
Two 45-year-old men, one of them a filmmaker, will meet with Mingjung in a bar. Upon seeing her having
a drink and reading, they will get the feeling theyve met her before. The woman will deny it and she will
even say that Mingjung is her twin sister; this claim, rather than being confirmed in the story, destabilizes
the references of the character itselfthere may be one Mingjung, or two, or several; later on, not even
Youngsoo himself will be able to tell. This is how the idea of a double, or of doubles, is introduced.
One of the most austere films by Hong. Few locations (two bars, two rooms, a street, an alley, a square),
four characters, and few formal signs. His typical shots with forward or backward zoom shots are really
minimal, and there isnt an apparently innovative narrative either. However, a careful gaze will be able to
distinguish a fascinating use of the mise en abyme which can be easily appreciated in two movements
out of Youngsoos imagination. On the basis of this procedure, the totality of the film can be redefined
and change the meaning of everything that happens. The final scene poses that questionif one looks at
the many details and the very development of the scene, a different interpretation is possible.
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Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastin, Concha de Plata Mejor Direccin; Festival
Y PREMIOS de Cine de Nueva York; Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto; Festival Internacional de Cine de
Singapur; Festival de Cine de Hamburgo; Festival Internacional de Cine de Ro de Janeiro; Festival
de Nuevo Cine Montreal.
FILMOGRAFA Dangsinjasingwa dangsinui geot (Yourself and Yours) (2016), Jigeumeun matgo geuttaeneun
selecta teullida (Right Now, Wrong Then) (2015), Ja-yu-eui eon-deok (Hill of Freedom) (2014), U ri Sunhi
(Our Sunhi) (2013), Nugu-iu ttal-do anin Hae-won (Nobodys Daughter Haewon) (2013), Da-reun
na-ra-e-seo (In Another Country) (2012), Book chon bang hyang (The Day He Arrives) (2011),
Hahaha (2010).
Dangsinjasingwa
dangsinui geot
Yourself and Yours
T y lo tuyo
Corea del Sur
2016
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amigo que su madre est muy enferma. Tambin le confiesa que
quiere casarse con Mingjung. La desaprobacin de su vecino es
inmediata: puede ser una mujer hermosa, pero aparentemente
toma demasiado y es un poco licenciosa. Los rumores confirman
la sospecha; no es la candidata ms conveniente. Esa noche,
Youngsoo y Mingjung discutirn y se tomarn un tiempo.
Roger Koza
This extraordinary film by Bill
Morrison is essentially an epic
against finitude. Everything
tends to disappear; men die,
as do their inventions and
constructions whicheven if
they occasionally survivealso
experience decay and downfall.
Paradoxically, cinema was born
under this ontological curse but
it partially concreted a desire
freezing time. The variable that
determines deterioration is
stopped in a film.
This passionate, kaleidoscopic story that takes place in a Canadian citywith a somewhat unequal
demographic and economic growth which began at the end of the 19th century with the gold fever and
the mining boomallows Morrison to show how, from that period on, cinematographic recording (and
not just photography anymore) becomes a decisive factor in the construction of collective memory. The
relationship between the young city of Dawsonwith its detrimental expansion on a par with Trochk (the
settlement region of the Han people)and cinema is undeniable; especially after an extraordinary amount
of film reels were found in 1978 in a pool and in a construction site excavation.
Using as source this archeological find, and making use of the recovered film materials, Morrison
proposes a genealogy of cinema and an empirical and phantasmagoric reconstruction of the History
of Dawson (and the 20th century). Moving images always document beyond their purpose (and beyond
fiction). Here, we can see an economic system, political disputes, technical and anthropological
transformations, and we even learn about the history of film materials, which in the first decades were
always associated with fire outbreaks.
Morrisons educational approach is categorical, as his secret consists in identifying regularities in the
archive material and joining them together in editing, constructing a great story that administrates
suspense as well as emotional peaks. The method can be appreciated by the way in which it includes
the destiny of Chief Isaac, leader of the Han, or in the methods of association with which conceptual
series are established through repetition of gestures and situations that belong to silent films made in
122 Dawson. These are admirable poetic procedures, and they show a great narrative intelligence always at
the service of an absolute love for cinema.
Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2017 Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam; Festival Internacional de Gotemburgo 2016
Y PREMIOS Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia; Festival de Cine de Nueva York; BFI. Festival de Cine
de Londres.
FILMOGRAFA Dawson City: Frozen Time (Dawson City: El tiempo congelado) (2016), The Great Flood (La gran
selecta inundacin) (2013), Tributes Pulse (Tributos Pulso) (2011), The Miners Hymns (2011), Spark
of Being (2010), Decasia (2002).
Dawson City: Frozen
Time
Dawson City: El tiempo
congelado
Estados Unidos
2016
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color, byn
MANIFIESTO CONTEMPORNEO
pica contra la finitud. Todo tiende a la desaparicin; los hombres
mueren y tambin sus invenciones y sus construcciones, que, si
bien a veces los sobreviven, conocen la decrepitud y la decadencia.
Paradjicamente, el cine naci con esa maldicin ontolgica, pero
concret parcialmente un deseo: congelar el tiempo. Esa variable
que determina el deterioro se detena en una pelcula.
Direccin
Guin
Edicin En esta apasionante historia caleidoscpica de una ciudad
Bill Morrison canadiense cuyo crecimiento demogrfico y econmico no siempre
Sonido parejo comenz a fines del siglo XIX con la fiebre del oro y el boom
John Somers de la minera, Morrison demuestra cmo desde ese periodo en
Msica adelante el registro cinematogrfico (y ya no solo el fotogrfico)
Alex Somers
empieza a ser un factor decisivo en la construccin de la memoria
Reparto
Kathy Jones-Gates colectiva. La relacin entre esa joven Dawson, que se expandi
Michael Gates perniciosamente a la par de Trochk (la zona de asentamiento de
Sam Kula los Han), y el cine es indesmentible; sobre todo cuando en 1978 se
Bill Morrison encontr una inslita cantidad de rollos de pelcula en una pileta y
en una excavacin para empezar una construccin.
Produccin
Hypnotic Pictures
A partir de ese acontecimiento arqueolgico y con los materiales
Picture Palace Pictures
Distribucin flmicos recuperados, Morrison propone una genealoga del
Picture Palace Pictures cine y una reconstruccin emprica y espectral de la Historia de
Dawson (y del siglo XX). La imagen en movimiento documenta
siempre, ms all de su propsito (y la ficcin). Aqu se visualiza un
sistema econmico, disputas polticas, transformaciones tcnicas y
antropolgicas, incluso se aprende sobre la propia historia material
del cine, que en sus primeras dcadas siempre estuvo ligada a los
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Roger Koza
Eugne Greens films can
provoke a certain bewilderment
in people who dont know
them. However, few are the
filmmakers who are able to
achieve a formal and spiritual
record of their own, and with Le
fils de Joseph, Green definitely
shows hes one of them.
A film that inverts the myth of Isaacs sacrificethe homonymous painting by Caravaggio will appear
several times throughout the filmLe fils de Joseph is divided in five chapters that represent different
biblical topics, and shows an ambition to reinterpret religious allegories in contemporary Paris not
without irreverent and intellectualized humor; such as when a friend of Vincents proposes to him to join
his semen-selling Internet business, or when the vices of the literary world and its vanity fair are thrashed,
always with a touch of sentimental and spiritual purity.
Here, Green also forfeits his formal systemthe characters speak perfect French, pronouncing all the
linkages between words (a rule of French phonetics that doesnt apply to the everyday usage of this
language), an artistic code of precise diction that creates a voluntary gap with reality, and also the device
of filming dialogues by placing the camera in front of the faces, as if wanting the spectator to receive the
embodiment of the word through the fullness of the gaze.
With a profound existential charge in his works, the most baroque of filmmakers tells us that the place
where man can make the sacredwhich is the supreme realityappear is in representation; and then,
paradoxically, it is representationwhich is falsewhat becomes the place of supreme reality.
FESTIVALES 2016 Berlinale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Berln; BAFICI. Buenos Aires Festival Internacional
Y PREMIOS de Cine Independiente; IndieLisboa. Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente; Festival
Internacional de Cine de Karlovy Vary; Festival de Cine de Nuevos Horizontes; Festival Internacional
de Cine de Melbourne; Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla, Mejor Guin, Mejor Actor; Espoo
Cin. Festival Internacional de Cine de Espoo;Festival Internacional de Cine de Ro de Janeiro;
Festival Internacional de Cine de Haifa; CPH:PIX. Festival Internacional de Cine de Copenhague;
Festival de Cine de Turn; Festival Internacional de Gotemburgo.
FILMOGRAFA Le fils de Joseph (The Son of Joseph) (2016), Faire la parole (2015), La sapienza (2014), A
selecta Religiosa portuguesa (The Portuguese Nun) (2009), Le Pont des Arts (The Bridge of Arts) (2004),
Le Monde vivant (The Living World) (2003), Toutes les nuits (Every Night) (2001).
Le fils de Joseph
The Son of Joseph
El hijo de Jos
Francia Blgica
2016
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MANIFIESTO CONTEMPORNEO
quien no lo conoce. Sin embargo, pocos son los cineastas que
logran tener un registro formal y espiritual propio, y con Le fils
de Joseph, Green demuestra definitivamente que es uno de ellos.
Sbastien Blayac
Philip Scheffner found on
YouTube the video of a boat,
broken down in the middle
of the Mediterranean Sea,
filmed from a cell phone. The
original recording was three
minutes thirty-six seconds long.
Adjusted to a frame per second,
time stretches to ninety minutes,
which happens to be the time
the authorities took to rescue
the passengers; and, curiously
enough, it is also the duration
of the commercial standard of a
film. There is no recording of the whole event, which is why Scheffner recreates the dramatic structure
by collecting testimoniesfrom the person who recorded the video, from travelers, from the authorities
radio recordings.
The boat carried people travelling illegally, which is why Scheffner is compelled to reflect about the
migration phenomenon in Europe. But this is not just another recording of refugees, of which our imagery
is packed thanks to the media and since it is a daily occurrence. Scheffner excludes those images; he
synthetizes them into the frames that appear in succession on the screen at the pace of the clock, with
the powerful effect of marking the sensation of time. The whole suggestion is constructed on the basis
of sound, carefully maintaining a dichotomy between the experience of those people who were on the
boat, and of those watching. The procedure is conceptualthe film questions not only the phenomenon,
but the point of view. Its not by chance that around the half of the film, at the 47-minute mark, the
camera pans to show us that the video has been filmed from a cruise ship, out of which music is
heard, interpreted by the Philippine band in service. What is shocking is not only the contrast between
these two situations, Scheffner is sharper and subtler than thatthe most shocking is the difference in
perspective, which alerts us on the fragility of human condition.
Eva Sangiorgi
126 FESTIVALES 2016 Berlinale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Berln; FIDMarseille. Festival Internacional de
Y PREMIOS Cine de Marsella, Mencin Especial Competencia Internacional Georges de Beauregard; RIDM.
Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Montreal, Mejor Edicin; LAlternativa Festival de
Cine Independiente de Barcelona, Mejor Largometraje Internacional; Festival de Cine de Nuevos
Horizontes; Festival de Cine de Turn.
FILMOGRAFA Havarie (Havria) (2016), And-Ek Ghes (2016), Revision (2012), Der Tag des Spatzen (Day of
selecta the Sparrow) (2010), The Halfmoon Files (2007), A/C (2003).
Havarie
Havria
Naufragio
Alemania
2016
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color
MANIFIESTO CONTEMPORNEO
en medio del Mediterrneo, filmado desde un telfono celular. La
grabacin original tena una duracin de tres minutos y treinta y
seis segundos. Ajustado a un fotograma por segundo, el tiempo se
estira a noventa minutos, que result ser el lapso empleado por las
autoridades para el rescate de los pasajeros y, azarosamente, es la
duracin del estndar comercial de una pelcula. No hay registro de
Direccin todo el suceso, por lo que Scheffner recrea la estructura dramtica
Edicin coleccionado testimonios: del autor del video, de los viajantes, de
Philip Scheffner las grabaciones de radio de las autoridades.
Guin
Merle Krger La embarcacin transportaba a personas que viajaban de manera
Philip Scheffner ilegal, por lo que Scheffner es incitado a interrogarse acerca del
Fotografa fenmeno de la migracin en Europa. Pero no se trata de otro
Terry Diamond registro de refugiados del que est repleto nuestro imaginario a
Bernd Meiners partir de los medios de comunicacin al ser un asunto cotidiano.
Sonido Scheffner excluye esas imgenes: las sintetiza en los fotogramas
Pascal Capitolin que se suceden en la pantalla a ritmo de reloj, con el poderoso
Volker Zeigermann efecto de marcar la sensacin del tiempo. Toda la sugestin se
Msica construye a partir del sonido, con la atencin de mantener la
Blue Waters Band dicotoma entre la experiencia de las personas en el barco y quien
Reparto los est observando. El procedimiento es conceptual: la pelcula
Rhim Ibrir nos est cuestionando no solamente del fenmeno, sino del punto
Abdallah Benhamou de vista. No es casual que alrededor de la mitad del film, en el
Leonid Savin minuto 47, la cmara panea para mostrarnos que el video ha sido
Terry Diamond filmado desde un crucero, del que se escucha msica interpretada
por la banda filipina en servicio. Lo impactante no es solamente el
Produccin contraste entre las dos situaciones, Scheffner es ms agudo y sutil:
pong Film es la diferencia de perspectiva que nos alerta de la fragilidad de la 127
Distribucin condicin humana.
First Hand Films
Eva Sangiorgi
Nadav Lapid belongs to a gen-
eration of Israeli filmmakers
who question deeply the times
theyre living in, their traditions,
and their social and political re-
lations. The family nucleus also
represented a knot of tension
in his previous and surprising
film, The Kindergarten Teacher.
Now, in Myomano shel tzlam
hatonot, Lapid reflects on
the complexity of the feelings
kindled by love, and the com-
mitments it implies. He ponders
about the artificiality of marriage, the tensions of which are hidden in the rehearsed harmony of wedding
videos. What would happen if the wedding photographer left the camera on by accident? What if it were
to record confessions and doubts? What if the chaotic element of reality snuck in and revealed another
truth behind the artifice? Lapid insinuates a crack behind the perfect painting of wedding recordings
and shows it through a camera accidentally turned on, or completely irreverent. The form of the film itself
embodies that discomposureslashed shots, uneven framings, and sarcastic takes. Because, finally,
the filmmaker allows himself a certain subtle joke by putting up to discussion the commitment on which
traditional society is based upon. In this case, it is the women who dare break the farce. And the pho-
tographer appears in the frame as the element that stresses and breaks that harmony hes been asked
to assemble.
Eva Sangiorgi
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival de Cannes; Festival de Cine de Jerusaln; Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de
Y PREMIOS Vila do Conde, Gran Premio DCN Beers; Festival de Cine de Nueva York.
FILMOGRAFA Myomano shel tzlam hatonot (From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer) (2016), Haganenet
selecta (The Kindergarten Teacher), Hashoter (Policeman) (2011).
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Myomano shel tzlam
hatonot
From the Diary of a Wedding
Photographer
Israel Del diario de un fotgrafo de
2016
bodas
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MANIFIESTO CONTEMPORNEO
en profundo cuestionamiento con el tiempo en el que viven, sus
tradiciones, las relaciones sociales y polticas. Los ncleos familiares
representaban un nudo de tensin tambin en su sorprendente
pelcula anterior, The Kindergarten Teacher. En Myomano shel
tzlam hatonot, Lapid reflexiona acerca de la complejidad de los
sentimientos que provoca el amor, y de los compromisos que eso
Direccin implica. Se interroga sobre la artificialidad del matrimonio, cuyas
Guin tensiones se ocultan en la armona ensayada de los videos de
Nadav Lapid boda. Qu pasara si el fotgrafo de la boda dejara por accidente
Fotografa la cmara prendida? Si registrara las confesiones y las dudas?
Shai Goldman Si se infiltrara el elemento catico de la realidad y develara otra
Edicin verdad detrs del artificio? Lapid insina una grieta tras el cuadro
Era Lapid perfecto de los registros de boda y la muestra a travs de una
Sonido cmara accidentalmente encendida o totalmente irreverente. La
Aviv Aldema forma misma de la pelcula representa ese desconcierto: con planos
Reparto cortados, encuadres accidentados y tomas sarcsticas. Porque
Ohad Knoller finalmente el realizador se concede cierta broma sutil al poner en
Naama Preis discusin lo que representa el compromiso sobre el que se sostiene
Dan Shapira una sociedad tradicional. En este caso son las mujeres quienes se
Jacob Zada atreven a romper la farsa. Y el fotgrafo aparece en el cuadro como
Daniel Alina Levy el elemento que tensa y rompe aquella armona que le piden montar.
Avi Shnaidman
Eva Sangiorgi
Produccina
PIE Films
Distribucin
The Festival Agency
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After his magnificent Linconnu du
lac, Alain Guiraudie comes back
to a territory more suitable for
his poetics, marked by narrative
indetermination and closer to a
narrative syntax tied to the logic
of dreams as it happened in Pas
de repos pour les braves and
Voici venu le temps. This does
not mean arbitrariness, but an
intertwining of thematic series
with shared reverberations under
an associative modality intrinsic
to dreams.
In this occasion, a film director has to deliver a script to his producer, and while he tries to do it, during a
visit to the country, he has a son with a woman who will abandon them not even months after the baby is
born. This must be the most desolate example of paternity recently seen in cinema, but Rester vertical
is much more than an eventual portrait of masculinity dispossessed of patriarchal power. Described like
this, it sounds as a domestic drama and, eventually, a family nightmare; but with Guiraudie all of this is
in consonance with imaginary telluric elements, delirious gags, and a political and social indirect reading
tied metaphorically to the threatening presence of a pack of wolves who instill fear into the peasants at
night.
As we know, Guiraudie films sex with unusual freedom and only he can construct the best joke ever
seen at cinema, wherein pleasure and death are indiscernible. That lack of inhibition with regards to
eroticism, never identified as homosexuality or heterosexuality, but as a legitimate experience of the
body, has a correlation with his way of perceiving nature in cinematic terms. The open spaces of the
French countryside are unmistakable in his cinema; as is the wind, which, with Guiraudie, is always a
regular character of a heard but barely seen ecosystem which shapes the mise en scne. This ludic
relationship with the elements of the Earth allows for a representation of a medical clinic in the woods
which reinforces the audacity of the filmmaker.
The meaning of the title is explained in the most mysterious and beautiful scene of the film, but is also
foreboded in other sequences, especially each time we see the fallen surviving in a dark tunnel in
130 Marseille.
Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival de Cannes; BFI. Festival de Cine de Londres; Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla;
Y PREMIOS Festival de Cine de Nueva York; Festival Internacional de Cine de Ro de Janeiro; Festival
Internacional de Cine de Chicago; Festival Internacional de Cine de La Rochelle.
FILMOGRAFA Rester vertical (Staying Vertical) (2016), L inconnu du lac (Stranger by the Lake) (2013), Le roi
selecta de l'vasion (The King of Escape) (2009), Voici venu le temps (Time has Come) (2005), Pas de
repos pour les braves (No Rest for the Brave) (2003), Ce vieux rve qui bouge (That Old Dream
That Moves) (2001), Du soleil pour les gueux (Sunshine for the Poor) (2000).
Rester vertical
Staying Vertical
Animal vertical
Francia
2016
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MANIFIESTO CONTEMPORNEO
vuelve a un territorio ms propio de su potica signada por la
indeterminacin narrativa, ms cerca de una sintaxis narrativa ligada
a la lgica de los sueos, como suceda en Pas de repos pour les
braves y Voici venu le temps. Esto no significa arbitrariedad, sino
una compaginacin de series temticas que reverberan entre s
bajo una modalidad asociativa propia de lo onrico.
Produccin Como sabemos, Guiraudie filma el sexo con una libertad inslita
Les Films du Worso y solamente l puede construir el mejor chiste jams visto en
Distribucin el cine en donde el placer y la muerte son indiscernibles. Esa
Wild Bunch desinhibicin respecto del erotismo, jams identificado ni con la
ND Mantarraya homosexualidad ni con la heterosexualidad, sino como experiencia
legtima del cuerpo, tiene un correlato en la forma de percibir
cinematogrficamente la naturaleza. Los espacios abiertos de
la campia francesa son inconfundibles en su cine; tambin el 131
viento, que en Guiraudie es siempre un personaje regular de un
ecosistema odo y apenas visto que modela la puesta en escena.
Esa relacin ldica con los elementos de la Tierra permite una
representacin de la clnica mdica en el bosque que refuerza el
atrevimiento del cineasta.
Roger Koza
It all starts in the dark. A
darkness that will never really
leave us, but will rather thicken.
A musician and stage director,
played by Reda Kateb, is
standing facing his console,
making some sound tests. He is
rehearsing in the auditorium of
the Opra de Paris. From there,
he is directing prima ballerina
Marie-Agns Gillot for an opera
entitled Sarah Winchester,
which is inspired by the life of
this American woman whose
fate was so peculiar. Sarah is married to the only son of gun magnate Winchester, known for the famous
repeating rifle that spawned the colossal wealth of the family. Sarah is to lose her daughter Anne, who is
suffering from a degenerative disease, and then she is to lose her husband. Because she will not give in
to fate, she sees some psychics. These suggest she should build a house to accommodate the ghosts
of the departed.
Responding to a proposal made by the Opra de Paris, Bertrand Bonello reminisced a rich and long
cinematographic tradition initiated by Gaston Lerouxs eponymous novel, about a phantom who has
chosen this high place of Art as his abode. Thus are the backstage, stage and many a nook and cranny
in this magic place haunted by the story of Sarah W. But, as a further echo to what binds the story of this
woman to the architecture itself, this film, whose scope is quite impressive given its minimalist dimension,
presents itself as a shell that may welcome the ghost-like forms of an opera and a ballet whose sole
existence will be this mere time of researches and hesitations that unfurl in a still, purely interior dance
- density on sight.
Jean-Pierre Rehm
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastin; FIDMarseille. Festival Internacional de Cine
Y PREMIOS de Marsella, Prix Institut Franais de la Critique en Ligne; Festival de Nuevo Cine Montreal.
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FILMOGRAFA Sarah Winchester, opra fantme (Sarah Winchester, Phantom Opera) (2016), Nocturama
selecta (2016), Saint-Laurent (2014), Ingrid Caven, musique et voix (Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice)
(2012), LApollonide - souvenirs de la maison close (House of Tolerance) (2011), De la guerre
(On War) (2008), Tiresia (2003), Le pornographe (The Pornographer) (2001), Quelque chose
dorganique (Something Organic) (1998).
Sarah Winchester,
opra fantme
Sarah Winchester, Phantom
Opera
Francia Sarah Winchester, pera
2016
fantasma
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MANIFIESTO CONTEMPORNEO
nunca nos abandona, pero que se acenta. Un msico, tambin
director interpretado por Reda Kateb, se aferra a las consolas
y prueba sus sonidos: est ensayando en la sala de la pera de
Pars. Desde all dirige a la primera bailarina Marie-Agns Gillot
para una pera titulada Sarah Winchester, inspirada en la vida
de esta norteamericana cuyo destino fue tan particular: Sarah es
Direccin la esposa del nico hijo del armero Winchester, conocido por la
Guin famosa carabina de repeticin, fuente de la colosal fortuna familiar.
Msica Sarah va a perder a su hija Anne, afectada por una enfermedad
Bertrand Bonello degenerativa; despus perder a su marido. Rechazando la
Fotografa fatalidad, Sarah consulta a algunos mdiums. Estos le recomiendan
Irina Lubtchansky construir una residencia para acoger a los fantasmas de los
Edicin fallecidos.
Fabrice Rouaud
Sonido Como respuesta a una propuesta de la pera de Pars, Bertrand
Jean-Paul Mugel Bonello evoca una rica y larga tradicin cinematogrfica, aquella
Ymes-Marie Omne iniciada por la novela de Gaston Leroux sobre un fantasma
Nicolas Moreau que ha elegido como morada a este templo del arte; ah estn
Jean-Pierre los bastidores, el foro, y los muchos recovecos de este sitio
Reparto posedo por la historia de Sarah W. Esta pelcula, de un alcance
Reda Kateb impresionante si se toma en cuenta su minimalismo, se presenta a
Marie-Agns Gillot s misma (brindando as un eco ms del vnculo entre esta mujer y la
Juliette Vial arquitectura misma) como un cascarn que acoge las fantasmales
formas de una pera y un ballet cuya nica existencia consistir
Produccin en ese tiempo dedicado tan solo a bsquedas y dudas que se
My New Picture despliegan en una coreografa esttica, puramente interna: la
Opra National de Paris densidad de la mirada.
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Shortcuts Jean-Pierre Rehm
Literally the last movie by the
great master Abbas Kiarostami,
this is a posthumous short
film in which he comes
back to a mysterious lateral
obsession (and enigmatically
philosophical) that used to
be seen every now and then
in many of his moviesthe
unexpected apparition of an
insignificant object, narratively
speaking, and its random
trajectory. Without responding
to a mans will (nor to the logic
of the story), the object in question used to enter the frame moving from one point to another with no
anticipated direction. In some films, it could be a can; in others, an apple; here, it is a football which
begins rolling into an infinite descent through hundreds of stairs in a town in Italy.
The perfection of the framings is unusual, and the situational variants the Iranian master finds in order
to follow the movements of the ballas well as the worry of the child chasing itreveal the magnificent
capacity Kiarostami had to handle suspense with minimal elements.
As a closure to the career of a filmmaker of Kiarostamis stature it may be too little; but Take Me Home
is probably the film that is closest to his first short film, The Bread and Alley (1970), from which stems
a mysterious circularity which was undoubtedly not premeditated but nonetheless significant. The big
difference resides in the unfathomable distance between the sound concept of one film and the other,
a distance that is encrypted in the substitution of analogic cinema by digital. Indeed, the laborious
soundtrack of Take Me Home has little to do with Kiarostamis cinema, since the sound doesnt replace
the image but duplicates itan inversion correlative to what happened in Shirin, a film which synthetized
the cinematographic poetics of the director.
Even so, Take Me Home is a beautiful film with several unforgettable shots, a few curious and
imperceptible cats, and certain majestic clouds that barely show themselves in the background of some
shots among the labyrinthic stairs of an Italian town. At moments, they suggest a scenery not too distant
to Eschers obsessive paintings.
134 Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia; Festival Europeo de Cortometrajes de Niza; Mues-
Y PREMIOS tra Internacional de Cine de SoPaulo; Festival Internacional de Cine de Valladolid; Festival Inter-
nacional de Cine de Tokio; Festival de Cine Iran en Reino Unido; Black Nights. Festival Internacional
de Cine de Tallin; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata.
FILMOGRAFA Take Me Home (2016), Like Someone in Love (2012), Copie conforme (Certified Copy) (2010),
selecta Shirin (2008), Correspondances: 4 Video Letters to Vctor Erice (2005), 10 on Ten (2004), Five,
Dedicated to Ozu (2004), Ten (2002), ABC Africa (2001), Bad ma ra khahad bord (The Wind Will
Carry Us) (1999), Tame Guilass (Taste of Cherry) (1997), Birth of Light (1997), Zir-e darakha-
tan-e zeytoun (Through the Olive Trees) (1994), Zendegi edam drad (Life and Nothing More)
(1992), Nema-ye Nazdik (Close-Up) (1990).
Take Me Home
Llvame a casa
Irn
2016
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MANIFIESTO CONTEMPORNEO
un corto pstumo donde vuelve sobre una misteriosa obsesin
lateral (y enigmticamente filosfica) que sola verse cada tanto
en varias de sus pelculas: la inesperada aparicin de un objeto
narrativamente insignificante y su azarosa trayectoria. Sin responder
a la voluntad de un hombre (ni a la lgica del relato) el objeto en
cuestin entraba en cuadro movindose de un punto a otro sin
Direccin una direccin prefigurada. En algunas pelculas poda ser una lata,
Guin en otras una manzana; aqu se trata de una pelota de futbol que
Fotografa empieza a rodar en un infinito descenso por cientos de escaleras
Abbas Kiarostami de un pueblo en Italia.
Edicin
Adel Yaraghi La perfeccin de los encuadres es inslita y las variaciones
Sonido situacionales que encuentra el maestro iran para seguir los
Ensieh Maleki movimientos de la pelota y la preocupacin de un nio que la
Msica persigue revelan la magnfica capacidad que tena Kiarostami para
Peter Soleymanipour manejar el suspenso con elementos mnimos.
Reparto
Biagio di Tonno Como cierre de la carrera de un cineasta de la talla de Kiarostami
puede ser demasiado poco, pero Take Me Home es probablemente
Produccin la pelcula ms cercana a su primer cortometraje, The Bread and
Kiarostami Foundation Alley (1970), de lo que se predica una misteriosa circularidad que
Distribucin sin duda no fue premeditada pero que no deja de ser significativa.
Iranian Independents La gran diferencia reside en la inconmensurable distancia entre
el concepto sonoro de un film y otro, distancia que se cifra en la
sustitucin del cine analgico por el digital. En efecto, la laboriosa
banda de sonido de Take Me Home poco tiene que ver con el cine
de Kiarostami, ya que el sonido no releva a la imagen sino que la
duplica, inversin correlativa de lo que suceda en Shirin, pelcula 135
que sintetizaba la potica cinematogrfica del director.
Aun as, Take Me Home es una pelcula hermosa, con varios planos
inolvidables, algunos gatos curiosos e imperceptibles, y ciertas
nubes majestuosas que asoman apenas en el fondo de algunos
planos entre las labernticas escaleras de un pueblo italiano y que
por momentos insinan un escenario no muy lejano a los obsesivos
cuadros de Escher.
Roger Koza
EL
PORVENIR
THE FORTHCOMING
After a prolific production of
short films which have earned
him awards in festivals through-
out the world, Eduardo Teddy
Williams arrives with his first
feature to the Locarno film Fes-
tival and wins the Golden Leop-
ard in the section Cineasti del
presente.
Williams journey happens in geographies far away, as well as in urban and city landscapes, held
together by the coherence of the anxieties shared by a generationthe uncertainty of the future in
an unsatisfactory present and the impossibility of communication in an era of media excess. In this
sense, the reference to sexualitywith which the film opens in a provocative waybecomes meaningful;
exposure is the contestationphysical and corporealto the volatility of an interconnected digital world.
A suggestive film which allows us to travel through a spacemainly mental, cinematic, and suggestive
as much as through the virtual reality affecting us all in a concrete way.
Eva Sangiorgi
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FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno, Leopardo de Oro Cineasti del Presente, Mencin
Y PREMIOS Especial Mejor pera Prima; Festival de Cine de Pancevo; Festival Internacional de Cine de To-
ronto; Festival Internacional de Cine de Vancouver; Festival de Cine de Nueva York; FICValdivia.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, Mencin Especial; Festival Internacional de Cine de Ro
de Janeiro; Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena; Janela Internacional de Cinema do
Recife, Mejor Fotografa, Mejor Edicin; Festival de Cine de Tesalnica; RIDM. Rencontres Inter-
nationalesduDocumentairedeMontral; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Premio
Especial del Jurado; Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de Zagreb.
FILMOGRAFA El auge del humano (The Human Surge) (2016), Ti qun ri! (I Forgot!) (2014), Que je tombe
SELECTA tout le temps? (That Im Falling?) (2013), El ruido de las estrellas me aturde (The Sound of the
Stars Dazes Me) (2012), Pude ver un puma (Could See a Puma) (2012), Alguien los vio (2010),
Tan atentos (2010).
El auge del humano
The Human Surge
Argentina - Brasil -
Portugal
2016
97
s16 mm, digital
color
Despus de una prolfica produccin de cortometrajes que han
EL PORVENIR
sido premiados en festivales en todo el mundo, Eduardo Teddy
Williams desembarca en el Festival de Locarno con su primer largo
y gana el Leopardo de Oro de la seccin Cineasti del presente.
In a Zulu theme park, which offers lodging to its visitors, not very far from Durban, a member of the staff
in charge of representing South African traditional culture is tired of playing an aboriginal. His desire is to
interpret Shakespeare, but not Othello in any way. The dialogue he has with one of his female coworkers
is notable because of the simplicity with which the relationship between literature and politics is decon-
structed, without forgetting to allude to the story itself, for as they speak the flashes of the tourists (again,
off screen) come one after the other, denoting the ornamental character of the actors, as if they were
animated furniture with the only purpose of being captured in a photograph.
Overall, the scenes synthetize all of those naturalized calamities which usually happen in the tourist
attractions which gather citizens of the so-called First Worldnothing else than an obscene displacement
of racism as a domination, linked to consumption, of the other. This is well outlined in the film by a joke
having to do with proverbs enacted by animals, and also by a scene in which the contempt of some
tourists for a woman janitor is verified.
There are some genius gags, like the one enacted by an Israeli tourist (satirized by Wahrmann himself)
which, along with the rest of the scenes, dialectically prepare a rabid outcome that goes beyond criticism
to tourism as colonialism by other means, and can be construed as a diatribe against globalized cinema.
The open shot on the actors and actresses pretending to belong to a Zulu tribe, dancing and singing
like in ancient times, closes gradually as the outrage grows as a manner of warninga just and perfect
140 provocation.
Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival de Cine de Cannes; Festival de Cine de Poitiers; Festival de Cine de Sdney; Janela
Y PREMIOS Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Premio Especial del Jurado, Premio Janela Crtica Mejor
Cortometraje Internacional; XX Festival de Cine Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, Premio
Especial del Jurado.
Michael Wahrmann
The Beast (La bestia) (2016), Oma (2012), Avanti Popolo (2012), Avs (Grandmothers) (2009).
The Beast
La bestia
Sudfrica - Francia
2016
24
digital
color
EL PORVENIR
que arranca con un tono deliberadamente humorstico y termina
con un sorprendente y necesario espritu de no reconciliacin
dirigido incluso al pblico del film, doble potencial de la audiencia
en fuera de campo presupuesta por la representacin que tiene
lugar en ese cierre iracundo. Esa estrategia formal es una de las
tantas pruebas de la sagacidad con la que est concebida la
Direccin puesta en escena.
Guin
Samantha Nell En una reserva temtica zul que ofrece hospedaje a sus visitantes,
Michael Wahrmann no muy lejos de Durban, un miembro del personal a cargo de
Fotografa representar la cultura tradicional de Sudfrica est cansado de
Nicholas Turvey hacer de aborigen. Su deseo es interpretar a Shakespeare, pero
Edicin de ningn modo a Otelo. El dilogo que mantiene con una de sus
Henin Han compaeras de trabajo es notable por la simplicidad con la que
Sonido deconstruye la relacin entre la literatura y la poltica, sin dejar de
Jim Petrak aludir al relato en s, pues mientras conversan los flashes de los
Reparto turistas (otra vez en fuera de campo) se suceden denotando el
Khulani Maseko carcter decorativo de los actores, como si fueran un mobiliario
Luleka Mhlanzi animado que solamente sirve para capturar en una fotografa.
Modise Sekgothe
Thabani Mahlobo Las escenas en su conjunto sintetizan todas las calamidades
naturalizadas que suelen tener lugar en los atractivos tursticos
Produccin que convocan a los ciudadanos del llamado Primer Mundo, que
Sancho Filmes no son otra cosa que un desplazamiento obsceno del racismo
como dominacin a otro ligado al consumo, bien delimitado en el
film por un chiste relacionado con los proverbios protagonizados
por animales y tambin por una escena en la que se verifica el
desprecio de unos turistas por la encargada de limpieza. 141
Through Maloya rhythms, those exiled on Runion sing to the dead and curse the pending scores with
their colonial past. This therapeutic ritual brings their culture close to that of Latin America.
Camilo Restrepo is a Colombian man who lives in Europe and is sensitive to the historical and migratory
coincidences of the two cultures; starting with the music and its cathartic, repetitive rhythms that show a
common root established in blackness and slavery. This is why the film develops through musical pieces,
interpreted by singer Christine Salem. A colonial and mythical imaginary can be glimpsed through the
texts, which summon the presence of Pedro Costamusically, in this case. Throughout this conversation
among the living and the dead, Restrepo thinks of Juan Rulfos novel, Pedro Pramo, where dialog with
the afterlife is so real that it appears to belong in the dimension of the living.
Restrepo films in 16 mmhis format of choicebathing the film in a 1970s atmosphere that is both
seductive and deliberately imperfect, in which life and death, art, music, and political inheritance, coexist
in rhythm.
Eva Sangiorgi
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno, Leopardo de Plata Concurso Internacional;
142 Y PREMIOS Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto; Festival de Cine de Nueva York; Festival de Cine y
Artes Audiovisuales Berwick, Mejor Pelcula; Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Mejor
Cortometraje; Zinebi. Festival Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje de Bilbao, Mikeldi
de Plata; Festival Internacional de Cine de Ourense.
FILMOGRAFA Cilaos (2016), La impresin de una guerra (Impression of a War) (2015), Como crece la sombra
SELECTA cuando el sol declina (Like Shadows Growing as the Sun Goes Down) (2014), Tropic Pocket
(2011).
Cilaos
Francia
2016
13
16 mm
color
EL PORVENIR
colonia francesa en el ocano ndico donde los esclavos fugitivos
encontraban refugio. El nombre Cilaos significa el lugar que no
dejas, definicin que puede evocar un paradero, as como referirse
a un destino fnebre. Una mujer viaja a Cilaos en bsqueda del
padre mujeriego que nunca conoci. Pero el padre ha muerto y ella
resuelve ese encuentro fallido a travs de su cuerpo.
Direccin
Guin Los exiliados de Reunin cantan a los muertos en ritmos maloyas
Camilo Restrepo y maldicen las cuentas pendientes de su pasado colonial. Un ritual
Fotografa teraputico que acerca a aquella cultura a la latinoamericana.
Guillaume Mazloum
Camilo Restrepo Camilo Restrepo es un colombiano radicado en Europa, sensible
Edicin a las coincidencias histricas y migratorias de las dos culturas
Bndicte Cazauran empezando por la msica, cuyos ritmos catrticos y repetitivos
Camilo Restrepo declaran una misma raz negra y esclava. Por ello, la pelcula se
Sonido desarrolla a travs de piezas musicales protagonizadas por la
Mathieu Farnarier cantante Christine Salem. A travs de los textos se vislumbra un
Msica imaginario colonial y mtico que remite a la presencia de Pedro
Christine Salem Costa, en este caso en clave musical. En esta conversacin entre
David Abrousse vivos y muertos, Restrepo piensa en Pedro Pramo, de Juan Rulfo,
Harry Perigone donde el dilogo con el ms all es tan real que parece pertenecer
Reparto a la misma dimensin en la que habitan los vivos.
Christine Salem
David Abrousse Restrepo filma en 16 mm formato que acostumbra confiriendo
Harry Perigone a la pelcula una atmsfera setentera, seductora y deliberadamente
imperfecta donde vida y muerte, arte, msica y herencia poltica
Produccin conviven rtmicamente.
G.R.E.C. 143
Distribucin Eva Sangiorgi
Camilo Restrepo Films
On October 6, 1976, over 100
students of the Thammasat
University, in Bangkok, were
murdered by paramilitary forces
aligned to the Thai State. This
event is introduced by Anocha
Suwichakornpong at the begin-
ning of Dao khanong. The rep-
resentative strategy underlines
the difficultyeven the impos-
sibilityof such representation.
Several motionless students lie
on the floor, still alive, while sol-
diers shout and threaten them.
However, the locale chosen to stage the tragedy is an empty barn and the formal procedures used
depart from realism. The distancing technique chosen conveys a wholly understandable modestyhow
can such ruthlessness, and the obscene exercise of power, be filmed?
During its first 45 minutes, Dao khanong appears to take a well-known path. A young female, a film
director, appears in the movie choosing a beautiful setting for getting to know and interview a renowned
writer who was present at the Thammasat Massacre. A screenplay, and then a film, is supposed to
emerge from that encounter. At a certain point, that preparing scene is repeated with other actors, as if
the real movie was going to recall its own genealogy. However, that never happens. Unexpectedly, the
film begins to give birth to other films and this mise en abyme is announced through a dream dreamt by
the female filmmaker, a dream in which an extract from A Trip to the Moon, a few fast-motion shots of
growing mushrooms and plants, and a brief sequence from a Thai short-film entitled Agrarian Utopia are
brought together.
After that, narrative diversification and fiction layers folding into fiction layers will be a constant feature.
Anocha is a sharp filmmaker, the rhizomatic structure of her tale has little to do with a bombastic poetic
detached from the production of comprehensible signs. In the mentioned scene, a contrast between
social classes is suggested; and, in another passage, a Buddhist meditation is made to clash against the
euphoria experienced by the attendants at a discotheque.
The mutations of current cinema can be sensed in the filmfragmentation advances throughout the tale
144 and determines it while the image is no longer a duplication of the world nor its representation; rather, it
reproduces our way of experiencing the world even though any image can be disintegrated.
Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival de Cine de Locarno; Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto; Festival Internacional
Y PREMIOS de Cine de Busan; BFI. Festival de Cine de Londres; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del
Plata; Festival de Cine de Hamburgo; Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena; Festival
du Nouveau Cinma Vancouver; Festival de Cine Asitico Hong Kong; SEMinci. Semana Internac-
ional de Cine de Valladolid; Festival de Cine de Tesalnica; Festival de Cine Golden Horse Taipei.
FILMOGRAFA Dao Khanong (By the Time It Gets Dark) (2016), Jao nok krajok (Mundane History) (2009).
SELECTA
Dao khanong
By the Time it Gets Dark
Cuando oscurezca
Tailandia Benelux
(Blgica Luxemburgo
Pases Bajos)
2016
105
digital
El de 6 octubre de 1976, ms de 100 estudiantes de la universidad
EL PORVENIR
color
de Thammasat en Bangkok fueron asesinados por fuerzas
paramilitares del Estado tailands. En el inicio de Dao khanong,
Anocha Suwichakornpong introduce ese evento. La estrategia
para representarlo consiste en acentuar la dificultad o acaso la
imposibilidad de hacerlo. Varios estudiantes inmviles y an con
Direccin vida estn en el suelo mientras los soldados gritan y amenazan,
Guin pero el lugar elegido para escenificar la tragedia es un galpn
Anocha Suwichakornpong vaco y los procedimientos formales empleados se desentienden
Fotografa del realismo. El distanciamiento elegido transmite un comprensible
Ming Kai Leung pudor: cmo filmar la inclemencia y el obsceno ejercicio del
Edicin poder?
Lee Chatametikool
Machima Ungsriwong En los primeros 45 minutos, Dao khanong parece tomar una va
Sonido conocida. En el propio film una joven directora elige una hermosa
Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr locacin para conocer y entablar una larga entrevista con una
Msica famosa escritora que fue partcipe de la masacre de Thammasat. De
Wuttipong Leetrakul ese encuentro debera nacer un guin y despus un film. En cierto
Reparto momento, esa escena preparatoria se repite con otros actores en
Arak Amornsupasiri el film, como si la pelcula real estuviera por empezar invocando
Atchara Suwan su propia genealoga, pero eso no suceder. Inesperadamente, la
Visra Vichit-Vadakan misma pelcula empieza a dar a luz a otras pelculas, una puesta en
Inthira Charoenpura abismo que se anuncia con un sueo de la directora en el que se
Soraya Nakasuwan armonizan un pasaje de Viaje a la Luna, algunos planos acelerados
Rassami Paoluengtong del crecimiento de hongos y otras plantas, y una breve secuencia
Penpak Sirikul de un corto tailands titulado Agrarian Utopia.
Apinya Sakuljaroensuk
Thongdeelert Jawaree De ah en ms, la diversificacin narrativa y los pliegues de la
Sajee Apiwong ficcin en la ficcin sern constantes. Anocha es una cineasta 145
Waywiree Ittianunkul perspicaz y la estructura rizomtica de su relato poco tiene que
Natdanai Wangsiripaisarn ver con una farragosa potica que desestime producir algn signo
comprensible. En esa escena se sugiere un contraste de clases,
Produccin como en otro pasaje una meditacin budista colisionar con la
Electric Eel Films euforia de los asistentes a una discoteca.
Distribucin
Luxbox En este film se presienten las mutaciones del cine de nuestro
tiempo: la fragmentacin avanza sobre el relato y lo determina; la
imagen a su vez ya no duplica el mundo ni lo representa; ms bien,
reproduce nuestra experiencia del mundo, aun cuando cualquier
imagen pueda desintegrarse.
Roger Koza
After the mysterious disappear-
ance of his wife, Elon wanders
around the city trying to find
her and to make sense of what
is going on. In an urban jour-
ney through dark and strange
places, he visits hospitals and
a morgue; he goes ask a sister
and a friend; and, in the hope of
finding some news, he reports
her missing to the police. The
days go by between arguments,
expectation, and frustration,
and his encounters with some
of the characters reveal an unknown past, a passionate and conflictive relationshipElon has a strange
way of loving, both exasperating and suffocating.
In a fascinating, bleak, and claustrophobic atmospherea reflection on the inner world of the main
characterthe film shows us a tormented and obsessed man who, as the search for his beloved
(Madalena) continues, gets closer and closer to finding himself and his own demons.
The film presents a millimetric mise en scne, accentuated by long and accomplished camera movements
where the main character is often filmed from the back, as if he refused to hold on to what is real and
wished to remain in a distorted reality. The (phantasmagoric?) reappearance of Madalena will lead to an
ephemeral encounter, a passionate sexuality between two bodies in a magnificent chiaroscuro scene.
But again, she will disappear. Was it dream or reality? The film will not tellit could all be a hallucination.
The subtle dialogs contribute to a state of confusion, and the narrative silences suggest a great deal.
The film has a subtext that does not underestimate the spectators understanding; the title is key in this
respect and participates in this sense; no, Elon definitely does not believe in the deathreal or symbolic
of his partner.
Fantastic realism, agonizing and dreamlikewith Elon no acredita na morte, Ricardo Alves Jr. has
accomplished a debut feature with a very precise rhythm and compelling dramatic tension. A film that is
as intense as life itself.
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Sbastien Blayac
FESTIVALES 2017 Muestra de Cine de Tiradentes; Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam 2016 Festival
Y PREMIOS de Brasilia do Cinema Brasileiro, Mejor Actor; Muestra Internacional de Cine de Belo Horizonte;
Muestra Internacional de Cine de SoPaulo; Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife; Panorama
Internacional Coisa de Cinema, Premio IndieLisboa Mejor Pelcula; Semana dos Realizadores, Ro
de Janeiro, Premio Especial del Jurado; Festival Internacional de Cine de Macao, Premio Mejor
Aportacin Artstica; Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam.
FILMOGRAFA Elon no acredita na morte (Elon Doesnt Believe in Death) (2016), Tremor (2013), Permanncias
SELECTA (2011).
Elon no acredita
na morte
Elon Doesnt Believe in Death
Elon no cree en la muerte
Brasil
2016
75
digital
color
EL PORVENIR
la ciudad para encontrarla e intentar comprender lo que sucede.
En un trayecto urbano de lugares oscuros y extraos, recorre
hospitales y morgues; pregunta a su hermana y a una amiga; y
con la esperanza de tener noticias, la reporta como desaparecida
a la polica. Entre discusiones, expectativa y frustracin, los das
pasan y los encuentros con algunos personajes revelan un pasado
Direccin desconocido, una relacin pasional y conflictiva: Elon parece tener
Ricardo Alves Jr. una extraa manera de amar, desesperante y sofocante.
Guin
Diego Hoefel En una atmsfera fascinante, sombra y claustrofbica un reflejo
Germano Melo del mundo interno del personaje, la pelcula deja ver a un hombre
Joo Salaviza atormentado, obsesionado, que a medida que busca a la mujer
Ricardo Alves Jr. amada (Madalena), est ms cerca de encontrarse a s mismo y a
Fotografa sus propios demonios.
Matheus Rocha
Edicin El film muestra una puesta en escena milimtrica, acentuada por
Michael Wahrmann largos y logrados movimientos de cmara, donde a menudo el
Frederico Benevides protagonista es filmado de espaldas, como si este ltimo no quisiera
Sonido enfrentarse a lo real y permaneciera en una realidad distorsionada.
Pablo Lamar La reaparicin (fantasmagrica?) de Madalena dar lugar a un
Ariel Henrique efmero encuentro, a una sexualidad pasional de dos cuerpos en
Gustavo Fioravante un magnfico claroscuro. Pero de nuevo la desaparicin tomar
Msica lugar, sueo o realidad? La pelcula no lo dir, todo podra ser
Daniel Saavedra una alucinacin.
Reparto
Rmulo Braga Los sutiles dilogos contribuyen a un estado de confusin y los
Clara Choveaux silencios narrativos sugieren mucho. El film contiene un subtexto
Loureno Mutarelli que no subestima la comprensin del espectador; por supuesto, el 147
Grace Pass ttulo es clave y participa de esto: no, definitivamente Elon no cree
Silvana Stein en la muerte real o simblica de su pareja.
Germano Melo
Realismo fantstico, onirismo angustiante, con Elon no acredita
Produccin na morte, Ricardo Alves Jr. logra una pera prima a un ritmo muy
EntreFilmes preciso, con una tensin dramtica cautivante. Una pelcula tan
densa como la vida.
Sbastien Blayac
When I look at these
landscapes for a long time,
the strange arises from the
trivial, says Damien Manivel,
the filmmaker who after his
debut film Un jeune pote
about a loner and adolescent
poet clumsily searching for
his musebrings us a second
film in which everything is less
banal, starting with its unusual
realization process. The film
was made without a script, with
improvised dialogues, leaving
behind no written tracks but achieving a surprising and intense narrative. Manivels filmtrue to the
directors passion for contemporary dancewas conceived above all as a choreography based on the
movements of its characters in one unique place, a park.
There, Manivel films an encounter between two young lovers on a summers day; they are tender and shy,
but as they go deeper into the park, their words become liberated little by littlehe talks about Freud, she
talks about gymnastics. Then come the gestures, within the forest they kiss and touch each otherthe
young lovers are projected into an eternal love. At the end of the evening, he leaves. She stays and sends
him a message. Brutal disillusion arrives at duskhe withdraws in regret. The girl would like to take it all
back; this is the start of a strange and disturbing night, a turn at which the film journeys into the unknown.
The tale is divided into two distinct partsfirst by day, with the impressive naturality of the actors, and
a touch of humor, we seem to be witnessing a candid comedy about adolescent love. Then, by night,
the films realist aesthetic is transformed into a surprising and captivating atmosphere of fantasy. This
transformation takes place without overlooking their common frontier: dusk, an absolutely sublime long
take of the girls face, which opens up to imagination and danger.
The progression of lightbrilliant at first, then declining, playing into light and shadow and then darkness
and the sound work, perfectly exploiting the sounds of nature, quiet or loud, participate in a mise en
scne of a strange dreamlike quality. The beauty of Le parc is sustained by a delicate combination of a
falsely banal reality and the depth of an invisible and poetic world.
148
Filmed on an insignificant budget, this work of absolute minimalism and majestic stillness has much more
resonance than the simple story it appears to tell, and it brings back the sheer phantasmagoric essence
of cinema.
Sbastien Blayac
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival de Cannes, ACID; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mosc; Viennale. Festival
Y PREMIOS Internacional de Cine de Viena; FICValdivia. Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia; CPH:PIX.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Copenhague; Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla; Festival de Cine
de Amiens, Mejor Actor; Festival de Cine de Turn; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata.
FILMOGRAFA Le parc (The Park) (2016), Un jeune pote (A Young Poet) (2014).
SELECTA
Le parc
The Park
El parque
Francia
2016
71
digital
color
EL PORVENIR
extrao, nos dice el realizador Damien Manivel, quien despus
de su pera prima Un jeune pote, sobre un adolescente poeta
y solitario buscando torpemente a su musa, nos entrega una
segunda pelcula todo menos banal, empezando por un proceso de
realizacin atpico: hecho sin guin y con dilogos improvisados sin
ninguna huella escrita, pero sorprendente e intensamente narrativo,
Direccin el film de Manivel ese apasionado de la danza contempornea
Damien Manivel se concibi ante todo como una coreografa que se apoya en los
Guin recorridos de sus personajes en un lugar nico, un parque.
Damien Manivel
Isabel Pagliai All, el realizador filma un encuentro amoroso de dos jvenes un da
Fotografa de verano: son tiernos y tmidos, y al adentrarse en el parque, poco
Isabel Pagliai a poco sus palabras se liberan: l le habla de Freud, ella de gimna-
Edicin sia; los gestos siguen, en el bosque se tocan y besan, los jvenes
William Laboury amantes se proyectan en un amor eterno. Al final de la tarde l se
Sonido va, y ella se queda y le enva un mensaje. Es el crepsculo y llega
Simon Apostolou la brutal desilusin: el chico se retracta, se arrepiente; la chica qui-
Arnaud Marten siera dar marcha atrs. Es el principio de una noche de una inquie-
Jrme Petit tante extraeza, un giro donde el film navega hacia lo desconocido.
Reparto
Naomie Vogt-Roby El relato se divide en dos partes ntidas: primero de da, con una
Maxime Bachellerie impresionante naturalidad de las actores, con toques de humor,
Sessouma Sobere parece ser que estamos frente a una comedia cndida sobre
el amor adolescente; luego de noche, la pelcula de esttica
Produccin realista se transforma en una sorprendente y cautivante atmsfera
MLD Films fantstica, sin olvidar su lmite comn el crepsculo con un largo
Distribucin plano secuencia absolutamente sublime sobre el rostro de la chica,
The Open Reel que se abre a la imaginacin y al peligro. 149
The work in terms of space is formidable, both concerning the way it is registered and the raccord
concept between scenes, for which continuity of the narrative time is strictly associated to spatial
discontinuity. Thats why the characters keep on walking through that village under water in which no
jungle is to be seen; and just like that, out of the blue, seconds after, they appear in another ecosystem,
in this case a jungle.
One of the characters reveals a dream in which he discovered how at first an electron in his intestine
looked like a cosmos until, little by little, he perceived that all of that universe was contained in his own
body. Immensity lived in him. The intuition of the character is no other than the expression of this poetics
under construction which Williams has been rehearsing for years; hes not the first to understand that
cinema can appropriate the logic of dreams to work on the narrative linking and the system of edition, but
the most original thing about Williams is how he uses dream-like forms to shape a story in which space,
as a stage, is completely dislocated.
Roger Koza
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FESTIVALES 2013 FICUNAM. Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM, Mencin Honorfica 2012 Festival de
Y PREMIOS Cannes; BAFICI. Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, Mejor Cortometraje
Kodak; Dokufest. Festival Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje de Kosovo, Mejor
Cortometraje; Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 2011 Festival Internacional de
Cortometrajes de Belo Horizonte, Mencin Honorfica.
FILMOGRAFA El auge del humano (The Human Surge) (2016), Ti qun ri! (I Forgot!) (2014), Que je tombe
SELECTA tout le temps? (That Im Falling?) (2013), El ruido de las estrellas me aturde (The Sound of the
Stars Dazes Me) (2012), Pude ver un puma (Could See a Puma) (2012), Alguien los vio (2010),
Tan atentos (2010).
Pude ver un puma
Could See a Puma
Argentina
2012
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35 mm
color
Pude ver un puma est constituido por diez planos. Varios jve-
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nes de unos veinte aos se pasean por las azoteas de una casa y
mientras tanto, juegan y conversan. La lgica conversacional es
ocasional, aunque esos intercambios verbales distan de ser los
habituales en una charla cotidiana. No hay personajes principales
ni tampoco un relato divido en tres segmentos en los que se divi-
de una estructura clsica con su respectiva introduccin, conflic-
Direccin to y resolucin. El movimiento es lo que aqu importa, un flujo de
Guin acciones que no se detiene y empuja la narracin hacia delante
Edicin sin un destino a la vista, ms all de que el espacio del relato es
Eduardo Williams programticamente discontinuo. He aqu el funcionamiento de una
Fotografa potica del espacio-tiempo: algunos personajes que aparecen en
Manuel Bascoy la azotea de pronto se encuentran sin ninguna explicacin en un
Sonido pueblo hundido y abandonado a las orillas de una laguna. Siguen
Milton Rodrguez caminando y hablando. Los escenarios varan, los personajes, no, y
Msica ellos no parecen percibir jams que ya no estn en donde estaban.
Alex del Ro
Eduardo Williams El trabajo sobre el espacio es formidable tanto en lo concerniente al
Reparto registro como en el concepto de raccord entre escenas, por el cual
Nahuel Prez Biscayart la continuidad del tiempo narrativo est estrictamente asociado
Fernando Contigiani Garca a la discontinuidad espacial. Es por que eso que los personajes
Juan Manuel Soler siguen caminando por ese pueblo bajo el agua en el que no se
Felipa Villanueva divisa ninguna selva a la vista, y as, de la nada, segundos despus,
Jernimo Quevedo aparecen en otro ecosistema, en este caso una selva.
Mariano Repetti
Nehun Zapata Uno de los personajes revela un sueo en el que descubri cmo
un electrn en su intestino se vea en un primer momento como un
Produccin cosmos hasta que pausadamente l percibe que todo ese universo
Un Puma Cine estaba contenido en su propio cuerpo. Esa inmensidad lo habitaba. 151
Universidad del Cine, Argentina La intuicin del personaje no es otra que la expresin de esta potica
en ciernes y en construccin que Williams viene ensayando por
aos: no es el primero en entender que el cine puede apropiarse
de la lgica onrica para trabajar sobre el encadenamiento narrativo
y el sistema de montaje, pero lo originalsimo de Williams es
cmo emplea las formaciones onricas como relato con una total
dislocacin del espacio como escenario.
Roger Koza
The case of Julian Radlmaier
is a strange one. His specialty
is almost an oxymoron. (Who
could associate comedy with
the Marxist tradition?) To start
with, his films are already un-
mistakably on their own; geo-
metric fixed shots, efficient use
of depth of field, clear and mani-
fest preference of color, and the
ever-present addition of The
Internationale somewhere, in
some scene. In turn, the comic
tone is always paradoxicala
general nave spirit playfully regulates the flow of complex issues surrounding the chosen political out-
look, which organically interacts with the development of the story.
In his second feature film, Radlmaier imagines a talking middle-class dog who mysteriously transforms
into a man with the desire to make a film about Communist utopia. Radlmaier himself interprets the
director, which implies a self-reflexivity that replicates the filmmakers position within and outside of
the story. In the film, the director is conscious of the problems implicit in being a communist filmmaker,
because in the historical period we are set in global Capitalism is so predominant that it is impossible
to symbolically escape the systemone feels and thinks from within it. Outside of the storyline, the self-
criticism of the title also reaches Radlmaiers conscience, capable of portraying a Q&A that questions the
very position of the film within the film, and which is also the position of the film in itself.
Because of a lack of funding, the young director ends up working on a farm called Oklahoma
accompanied by Camille, the star of his film (Canadian actress Deragh Campbell, whose character
also reminds us somewhat of herself)on the premise that he is researching on current labor conditions
(and secretly planning to seduce her). The community experience represents a miniature version of
society, allowing Radlmaier to glimpse with a bit of humor into issues of leadership, competition, power,
collectivism, and work division, and to present us with beautiful and stereotypical characters that serve
his cinematographic purposesuch as lovable Camille, or Hong and Sancho, the last believers who will
set off in search of a Communism without Communists, as prophesied here by a spiritual descendant of
Saint Francis of Assisi.
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Roger Koza
FILMOGRAFA Selbstkritik eines brgerlichen Hundes (Self-criticism of a Bourgeois Dog) (2016), Ein
SELECTA proletarisches Wintermrchen (A Proletarian Winters Tale) (2014).
Selbstkritik eines
brgerlichen
Hundes
Self-criticism of a Bourgeois
Alemania
2017 Dog
Autocrtica de un perro
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color
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oxmoron (quin podra asociar la comedia a la tradicin marxista).
En principio, un film suyo ya resulta inconfundible: planos fijos
geomtricos, un uso eficiente de la profundidad de campo, una
predileccin cromtica ostensible y la infaltable presencia de La
Internacional en algn pasaje. A su vez, el tono humorstico es
siempre paradjico: un espritu ingenuo general regula ldicamente
Direccin la circulacin de conceptos complejos de la perspectiva poltica
Guin elegida que son orgnicos al fluido desarrollo del relato.
Edicin
Julian Radlmaier En su segundo largometraje Radlmaier imagina a un perro
Fotografa burgus que tiene el don del habla y que misteriosamente encarna
Markus Koob como hombre con el deseo de hacer una pelcula sobre la
Sonido utopa comunista. Que el propio Radlmaier interprete al director
Christian Obermaier implica una autorreflexividad que duplica la posicin del cineasta
Tobias Bilz dentro y fuera del relato. En el film, el director es consciente de
Silvio Naumann lo problemtico que resulta ser un cineasta comunista, pues en
Kai Ziarkowski el periodo histrico que transitamos el capitalismo global es tan
Reparto determinante que resulta imposible fugarse simblicamente del
Julian Radlmaier sistema: se siente y se piensa en l. Fuera de la propia digesis,
Deragh Campbell la autocrtica del ttulo tambin alcanza a la propia conciencia de
Kyung-Taek Lie Radlmaier, capaz de escenificar un Q&A que problematiza la propia
Beniamin Forti posicin del film dentro del film y que es tambin la del film en s.
Ilia Korkashvili
Zurab Rtveliashvili Por falta de financiamiento, el joven director termina trabajando
Bruno Derksen en una granja llamada Oklahoma, acompaado por Camille, la
Anton Gonopolski intrprete principal de su pelcula (la actriz canadiense Deragh
Johanna-Orsini-Rosenberg Campbell, cuyo personaje tambin remite un poco a s misma),
Mex Schlpfer con la premisa de investigar las condiciones del trabajo actual 153
(y la agenda secreta de seducirla). La experiencia comunitaria
Produccin constituye una versin miniaturizada de la sociedad, lo que le
faktura film permite a Radlmaier entrever cmicamente cuestiones como el
Distribucin liderazgo, la competencia, el poder, la colectivizacin y la divisin
Deutsche Film und del trabajo, y tambin introducir personajes estereotipados
Fernsehkakademie Berlin DFFB y hermosos que sirven a la causa cinematogrfica, como los
queribles Camille, Hong y Sancho, los ltimos creyentes, que irn a
la bsqueda de un comunismo sin comunistas, profetizado aqu por
un descendiente espiritual de San Francisco de Ass.
Roger Koza
The Black Sun is an eclipsing
star, which the eyes cannot see
or they will burn; but it is also
the organ that produces bile,
that black fluid responsible for
melancholy, according to the
artistic and philosophical dis-
course of the 16th century. Mel-
ancholy affects creative spirits,
it is a poison that runs through
the creative veins of restless
and susceptible beings. Laura
Huertas Milln translates the
loneliness of artistic expression
into music through the interpretation of the main character, who is at once fascinating and tormented.
The film renders, to the underlying tension between body and spirit, the curse of materiality and the ethe-
real in inspiration, framed within the chiaroscuro of Jordane Chouzenouxs cinematography.
Antonia is an opera singer who is trying to recover from a suicide attempt and is condemned to singing
in an empty theater where nobody can see her, abandoned to the destruction caused by the emotional
throws of her soul. From the opening credits, we discover that the women on the screen belong to the
authors family environment, and she also appears in the film. Subtly, Huertas Milln conjures an inner
turmoil entangled in the complications of close relationships.
Sol negro is a delicate poetic fiction that blends the intimate experiences of the author with the elegy
of her character, reinforcing the metaphor of a personal reality. Memories are mysteriously and delicately
mixed into melodrama within a freely fragmented structure, imitating memories and emotional states.
Eva Sangiorgi
FESTIVALES 2017 Neighboring Scenes: Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano - Film Society Lincoln Center 2016
Y PREMIOS FIDMarseille. Festival Internacional de Cine de Marsella, Mencin del Jurado Competencia Francesa;
DocLisboa. Festival Internacional de Cine, Mencin de Honor Competencia Internacional; Festival
154 de Cine de Turn; FICXLAB. Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijn; Festival Internacional de Cine
de Cartagena de Indias.
Colombia Francia
Estados Unidos
2016
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El Sol negro es el astro en eclipse que los ojos no miran para no
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quemarse, pero es tambin el rgano que produce bilis, el flujo
negro responsable de la melancola, segn las disertaciones
artsticas y filosficas del siglo XVI. Ese mal afecta a los espritus
creativos, es un veneno que corre por las venas creativas de los
seres inquietos y sensibles. Laura Huertas Milln traduce la soledad
de la expresin artstica en msica, a travs de la interpretacin
Direccin
Guin de la protagonista, quien es fascinante y atormentada a la vez. La
Laura Huertas Milln pelcula logra rendirse a la tensin de fondo entre el cuerpo y el
Fotografa espritu: la maldicin de la materialidad y lo etreo de la inspiracin,
Jordane Chouzenoux remarcada por el chiaroscuro de la fotografa de Jordane
Laura Huertas Milln Chouzenoux.
Edicin
Isabelle Manquillet
Antonia es una cantante lrica que intenta recuperarse de un intento
Laura Huertas Milln
Hernn Barn Camacho de suicidio y es condenada a actuar en un teatro vaco, donde
Sonido nadie la puede mirar, abandonada a la destruccin de los altibajos
Juan Felipe Rayo de su alma. Desde los crditos descubrimos que las mujeres en
Jocelyn Robert pantalla pertenecen al entorno familiar de la autora, quien tambin
Reparto aparece. Sutilmente, Huertas Milln evoca un tormento interior que
Nohem Milln se enreda en la complicacin de las relaciones cercanas.
Martha Milln
Laura Huertas Milln
Juan Pablo Barragn Sol negro es una delicada ficcin potica que confunde la
experiencia ntima de la realizadora con la elega de su personaje,
Produccin reforzando la metfora de una realidad personal. Las memorias se
Evidencia Films mezclan de una manera misteriosa y delicada al melodrama, en una
Les Films du Worso estructura libremente fragmentaria, como son los recuerdos y los
estados de nimo.
In his films, the human body is related to the Comfortable within the spaces of contemporary
machines and their mechanical or technological artwhere he began his career as a video artist
power, to the architectonical buildings which and film theatres, Yuri Ancarani has shown his 161
work in international film festivals as well as in
museums, biennales, and galleries. This dynamism
is also reflected on his filmic language and his
aesthetic sensibility, which exploreat the same
timethe beauty of the image and the suggestions
of sound, taking them to another level in terms of
the perception of filmic work.
Eva Sangiorgi
There is a certain fascination
for rituals and repetition in Yuri
Ancarani. The Challenge is a
portrait of the enormously costly
preparations for a legendary fal-
con race and of all the elements
surrounding the eventauctions,
luxury vehicles, eccentric feline
pets, and awesomely elegant
sheikhs in a surreal desert in
Qatar.
Jonathan Ricquebourg (who has recently worked, among others, with Albert Serra) registers in a magic
way the shiny golden light of the desert in symmetrically composed shots which pay close attention to
details and choreographic passages. Ancarani also establishes a contrast between the pulchritude of
these shots and the irreverent way in which he changes tones and mixes ethnographic-documentary ele-
ments with editorial reportage. This even becomes surprising when the camera offers a prodigious point
of view by fixing on a falcon.
Eva Sangiorgi
festivales 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno, Premio Especial del Jurado Cin+; Festival
y premios Internacional de Cine Manaki Brothers; Festival Internacional de Cine de La Roche Sur Yon;
162 Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena; La Mostra de CineBaix; Free Zone. Festival
de Cine de Belgrado; Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla; IDFA. Festival Internacional de Cine
Documental de msterdam; Festival Internacional de Cine de Dubai.
FILMOGRAFA The Challenge (2016), San Siro (2014), Ricordi per moderni (2013), Da Vinci (2012), Piattaforma
SELECTA Luna (2011), Il Capo (2010).
The Challenge
Francia - Italia
2016
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color
Produccin
Atopic
La Bte
Ring Film
Distribucin
Slingshot Films
San Siro, in Italy, is the Milan
soccer stadium and a stunning
building. To access this impos-
ing temple one has to walk up
a Solomonic set of stairs. But
before any match begins, pains-
taking labor has to take place
so each detail is carefully taken
care of by a relevant number of
people. Yuri Ancarani studies
the architecture of the place
and all the paraphernalia in-
volved in the preparations be-
fore a soccer match. Silently,
this architectonical space expresses the suggestion produced by the sports phenomenon. During the
preparation, firecrackers are used to scare away pigeons; during the match, firecrackers are used to
express the elation of soccer fans. Using critical and subtly ironical parallelisms, Ancarani shows the
soccer religion. Fittingly, he ends the film with an ecclesiastic hymn heard during the final credits.
Eva Sangiorgi
festivales 2015 Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam; Festival de Cine de Lima; Festival Internacional
y premios de Cine de Karlovy Vary; Festival de Cine Subversivo Zagreb, Premio Wild Dreamer Mejor
Cortometraje; IndieLisboa. Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente; BAFICI. Buenos Aires
Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente; Cinma du Rel. Festival Internacional de Cine
Documental; CPH:DOX. Festival Internacional de Documentales de Copenhague; RIDM. Festival
Internacional de Cine Documental de Montreal 2014 Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto;
Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno.
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San Siro
Italia
2014
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color
Produccin
Careof DOCVA
MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle
Arti del XXI secolo
SKY per il Sociale
Studio Ancarani
165
Ricordi per moderni weaves
a tale in 13 movementsthir-
teen videos, shot between
2000 and 2009, registering
the changes which have gradu-
ally marked reality in the coun-
tryside. This is a journey
through surreal atmospheres,
industrial buildings, petrochem-
ical facilities, and water parks;
the emblematic elements in the
areathe Romagna region, where
Ancarani was bornthe ones
which represent its economic wealth. This unveils details of a hidden reality, the expression of social
change and of inevitable migration.
The film is inspired on the texts of Italian writer Pier Vittorio Tondelli, who described this territory in detail,
particularly in Riviera Romagnola. Ancarani registers the same provincial reality in a riverside area where
labor and amusement are mixed as a metaphor of an universal discourse, and of current times ambiguity.
Eva Sangiorgi
festivales 2014 Hors Pistes Festival de Arte e Imagen Contemporneos, Tokio 2013 Festival de Roma.
y premios
166
Ricordi per moderni
Italia
2013
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color
167
The film registers surgery in
real time. The tool used for it
is a particularly sophisticated
one, a technology known as
Da Vinci, which surgeons oper-
ate through a joystick and they
train themselves for it by playing
videogames. In his third work
devoted to labor, Yuri Ancarani
is in the search of breaking away
from conventions and all that is
usual. This humorous wink is
based on an absolutely realbut
rather uncommonsituation.
Lorenzo Senni is the creator of a music score made with soundtracks of videogames from the last two
decades. Somehow, this portrays a generation represented by Ancarani himselfthe generation which
grew up after this form of entertainment first developed.
Once again, the contrast between human and machine, the human body exposed to surgery, and the
robotic body in charge of it.
Eva Sangiorgi
festivales 2013 LAlternativa Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona; RIDM. Festival Internacional de
y premios Cine Documental de Montreal; Festival Internacional de Cine de Nuevos Horizontes; Festival
Internacional de Cine de Melbourne; IndieLisboa. Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente,
Gran Premio Cortometraje; Hot Docs. Festival de Cine Documental de Canad; Festival
Internacional de Cine de Guanajuato, Mencin Especial a Mejor Corto Experimental; True/False
Film Fest; Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam 2012 Festival de Roma.
168
Da Vinci
Italia
2012
25
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color
Produccin
Studio Ancarani
Marino Marini Museum
Distribucin
Galleria ZERO
169
There are some people de-
voted to a rather peculiar pro-
fessiontechnician divers who
spend their days immersed in
the depths of the ocean and
the hyperbaric capsule known
as Moon Platform. Yuri Ancarani
made a trilogy centered on labor
by focusing on professions prac-
ticed in extremeor particularly
sophisticatedconditions and
developing a discourse which
reconsiders reality through situ-
ations which, though completely
true, are truly extraordinaire. Piattaforma Luna is some kind of ethnographic science fiction in which the
edition and the soundtrack (composed by Ben Frost) answer to a principle of subtractionthings are told
in the most formally synthetic and simplified form.
Ancarani describes a profession and its responsibilities, as well as the real people who practice them. A
touch of humor is also present and this helps to bring down to earth the situations in the film and its tone,
as voices are distorted by the helium present in their atmosphere.
Eva Sangiorgi
festivales 2016 Tampere Film Festival 2015 DocYard Boston 2013 Festival Internacional de Cine de San
y premios Sebastin; Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Clermont-Ferrand 2012 Black Nights. Festival
Internacional de Cine de Tallin; Dokufest. Festival Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje
de Kosovo, Mencin Honorfica; Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Hamburgo; Hot Docs.
Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Canadiense; Fano Film Festival, Mencin Especial del
Jurado; Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam 2011 Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia.
170
Piattaforma Luna
Italia
2011
26
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color
Produccin
Maurizio Cattelan
Studio Ancarani
Distribucin
Galleria ZERO
171
Il Capo presents a symphony of
men and machines as they dig
up for marble in the well-known
province of Carrara, in central
Italy. There is no music, although
it would seem as if there were
because of the movements of
the machines and the sounds
of the stone blockswhich look
like gigantic monolithsas they
fall. The quarry boss directs
the operation without saying a
word, just by the movements of
his hands. And Yuri Ancarani
emphasizes this choreography by controlling the speed of frames and directing his framings from
unexpected points of viewhigh angles, a panoramic shot; and, suddenly, another high-angle shot. The
expressions we see in the boss face reflect the harsh and bewildering mountain landscape, covered in
clouds and mineral dust.
Il Capo is the first piece in a trilogy devoted to labor, in which Ancarani aims to find its inherent poetics.
In this case, this poetics is found in the tension of gestures which seem as if they could move rocks by
themselves and in fascinating, out-of-this-world landscapes.
Eva Sangiorgi
festivales 2012 Festival de Cine de Tampere; Festival Internacional de Cine Fano, Gran Premio Especial
y premios del Jurado; Festival de Cine de Tabor, Gran Premio; Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes
de Hamburgo; Festival Internacional de Cine de Riga, Gran Premio Golden Anna; IndieLisboa.
Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente; Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Clermont-
Ferrand, Gran Premio Lab Competition; Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam 2011 Festival
de Cine Silhouette Pars, Premio del Jurado Joven; LAlternativa Festival de Cine Independiente
de Barcelona, Mejor Cortometraje; Festival Internacional de Cine de Nuevos Horizontes, Mejor
Documental; Festival de Cine de Miln; Festival de Cine de Sidney; Festival de Cine de Trento,
Mejor Cortometraje; Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Cinma du Rel 2010 Festival
172 Internacional de Cine de Venecia; Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de msterdam.
Il Capo
Italia
2010
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color
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RETROSPECTIVA
Luiz
ROSEMBERG FILHO
RETROSPECTIVE Luiz ROSEMBERG FILHO
La soledad de
las imgenes
Gustavo Beck
Making cinema
should be like going
to work to the
Luiz Rosemberg Filho is a solitary artist. A Bra-
The last feature film made by Rosemberg Filho in this period is the
erotic comedy O santo e a vedete, a mildly pornographic satire
of sorts with Brechtian touches, filmed at Cindia Studios. In this
project the filmmaker acted as a hired director, and J. Borges, the
producer, finally desisteddue to the peculiarity of the pieceand
didnt distribute the film commercially.
Pop animations, allusions to current characters, and sexual and war images taken from Rosemberg
Filhos work outline a pertinent 70-minutes introduction for whoever wantsbefore delving into the
complete works of the Brazilian filmmakerto find out about the tone of his films and the goals he sought
when making them in such a way.
Film after film, the director tells about the motivations which led him to make the filmic portraits he made,
and also about the context in which he worked. At moments, the film shows archive sequences which
could be related to a more conventional kind of documentary style; however, each of these hazardous
moments pass by soonRosemberg Filho for the neophyte.
Luis Rivera
ESTRENO
MUNDIAL
Christian Caselli
Rosemberg cinema, colagem e afetos (Rosemberg - Cinema, Collages and Affections)
(2017), Dona Rosa (2010), O paradoxo da espera do nibus (2007), Baiestorf:Filmes de
SangueiraeMulher Pelada (2004).
Rosemberg cinema,
colagem e afetos
Rosemberg - Cinema, Collages
and Affections
Brasil Rosemberg - el cine, el collage
2017
y los afectos
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A testimonial film from a di-
rector that has always fought
against the same thingpower.
The title specifies a date and
a long war in the 19th century.
Argentina, Uruguay, and the
Brazilian Empire removed Mar-
shall Francisco Solano Lpez
and obliterated the Paraguayan
people. The film starts with the
end of that six-year war which
saw its capitulation in 1870.
Somebody asks: Why were
Paraguayan our enemies?.
A few wounded men are descried, and they speak for the fallen. A soldier walking through corn fields
announces his armys victory. The military conviction will not last. The military man will meet two women
who belong to a local theatre company. From there on, a discursive battle between him and one of
the women will begin. The film shows the path of that dialectic encounter, which will be completely
ineffectualforce, once again, will defeat reason.
Even if the film is set in its totality in the open air and the recording ponders the sequence shot and
the movement, typical of cinema, there is a theatrical force in the demeanor of the performers (Brazilian
cinema almost never ignores the filiation of cinema with the dramatic art), of which an expressive
hyperbole is predicated that mitigates verisimilitude in the name of conscious declamation. What is
obtained under such procedure? An untimely experience, alien, distanced, that works secretly on the
(un)historic legitimacy of military conflicts and establishes also an unexpected link between the alluded
war and the American invasion of Iraq.
Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2017 Muestra de Cine de Tiradentes 2016 Muestra Internacional de Cine de SoPaulo; Festival
Y PREMIOS de Cinema de Vitria, Brasil, Mejor Director.
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filmografa Guerra do Paraguay (2016), Gozo/Gozar (2016), Dois casamentos (2014), Carta a uma jovem
selecta cineasta (2014), Linguagem (2013), Fragmentos (2012), Desertos (2011), As ltimas imagens
de Tebas (2010), O discurso das imagens (Speech of Images) (2010), Afeto (2009), Uma carta
(2008), O dinheiro (2007), Passagens (2006), Vigrio geral (2005), Guerra$ (2005),Documen-
trio (2001), A cadeira de Constantin (2000), As Mscaras (1994), Imagens e imagens (1994),
Pornografa (1993), Cinema novo (1991), Desobedincia (1989), O vampiro (1988), Videotrip
(1984), Alice (1984),O santo e a vedete (1982), Auschiwtz (1980), Ideologia (1979), Crnica
de um industrial (1978), Um filme familiar (1977), A$suntina das Amrikas (1975), Imagens
(1972), O jardim das espumas (1970), Amrica do sexo [episdio Colagem] (1969), Balada de
pgina 3 (1969), Levante (1962).
Guerra do Paraguay
Paraguay War
Guerra de Paraguay
Brasil
2016
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Once more, Rosemberg Filho manifests the implacable power of words, which drives the movement of
bodies in a sensual choreographytwo women sharing an abysmal space suspended in time.
The critical discourse in the film is built on a game of opposites that allows for the exploration of various
subjectsmarriage as an institution incapable of representing love, differences between social classes,
the role of women in Brazilian society, and sex as truth.
Dois casamentos revendicates the thinking of Rosemberg Filho, bringing to light his poetic and political
view of the world.
Laura Alderete
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Dois casamentos
Two Weddings
Dos casamientos
Brasil
2014
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color
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A grotesque comedy of explicit
sexual references, in the line of
the political satire made in the
1980s. Luiz Rosemberg Filho
is particularly cynic andamid
a racket of betrayal, copulation,
dancing, and fist fightsnever
loses sight of the bullseye as he
shoots at it an arrow of sarcastic
and irreverent criticism. Once
again, the carnival becomes a
disguise of a rotten, corrupted
world.
As usual, Rosemberg Filho opens his film with a quotation marking his intentions: You who emerge from
the waves which now drown us, when you remember about our weakness in days without sun, think that
we were able to escapeBrecht.
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O santo e a vedete
The Saint and the Vedette
El santo y la vedete
Brasil
1982
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35 mm
color
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189
Always blood, fear, politics,
money, Jean-Luc Godard.
This film is another example of Rosemberg Filhos political cinema, which, in its struggle with censorship,
never saw its day in commercial theaters.
Eva Sangiorgi
190
Crnica de um
industrial
Chronicle of an Industrialist
Crnica de un industrial
Brasil
1978
87
35 mm
color
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Cavideo
191
Luiz Rosemberg Filho uses
the allegory of the carnival to
point out the social and politi-
cal divide in Brazil. His films are
irreverent, grotesque, provoca-
tive, and strongly political. The
performancewhich we find un-
der the form of choreographic
dance, sexual representation, or
statements in front of the cam-
erarepresents diverse tones of
an extroverted and eccentrically
militant cinema.
Boy... youll never ever see a country such as this one, Olavo Bilac.
Eva Sangiorgi
192
A$suntina das
Amrikas
A$suntina From the Americas
A$suntina de las Amricas
Brasil
1975
97
16 mm
color
193
The body can speak without
the mouth. The body can be
a palimpsest of resistance in
which one writes what one be-
lieves but is forbidden, at least
when the Brazilian dictatorship
rejects the word and wishes
the death of any idea that goes
against order (without pro-
gress). That body is the surface
chosen by the fascist to enjoy
the suffering of the enemy (an
end in itself), and to turn a man
into an informer.
Rosemberg Filho says all of this with images and without a sound to temper or challenge what is seen.
The complete silence of the film, sometimes symbolized by a man whose mouth is covered in tape as he
stares into the camera, expresses a state of things. Were at the height of the Brazilian dictatorship, still
two years away from the end of Emlio Garrastazu Mdicis presidency. Imagens gathers all the signs of
a time of which not everybody speaks. In one of the most explicit scenes, a man is tortured on a balcony
while the world around keeps going at its natural pace.
The degree zero of sound in the film is exploited as denunciation, and at the same time intermittently
evoked by inscriptions that are read in the naked body of the performers. Anguish is read on the left
breast of a woman; soul, on someones back. Also on the back of a woman, it is claimed that the
perception and the representation with which we see the world can be controlled. The idea, then, is
contradicting that visual regime, and the form chosen by Rosemberg Filho is working with images
that compel to conjugate disparate associations that sometimes repeat themselves, and thus erect a
discourse of resistance.
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Imagens
Images
Imgenes
Brasil
1972
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Bombings, King Kong, Hitler,
and Nazi crowds saluting and
celebrating the leader with a
ridiculous moustache. In con-
traposition, some open shots in
which young naked bodies are
seen. Hell and paradise, war
and love, the uniformed and the
uninhibited; the opposition of
signs is here a dominant poetic
principle, a tension that even
determines a major rift between
sound and image. A reiterated
example, paradigmatic of the
filmthe sonorous violence of
the machine-guns often rivals
with the placidity of images showing nature, or sensual pleasure. Opposites never reconcile.
The programmatic narrative chaos is intelligible enough to convey that the emissary of an (imaginary)
galaxy has arrived to implement economic and political agreements with his peers on this world. The
visitor will be kidnapped by a group of young rebels before he meets the leaders of government; such a
political maneuver will have consequences to their ideologues and executioners.
Rosemberg Filho chooses to represent societys own contradictions and the time in which he films, as
well as the place of the filmmaker facing that dramatic present which is allegorically alluded all throughout
the plot.
The last minutes in O jardim das espumas re-contextualize the ludic and allegoric tale into a major and
concrete violent story, a brutal genealogy of the current regime which Rosemberg Filho combats by
means of cinema. The unforeseen inclusion of archive material from Nazi concentration camps may seem
inappropriate given the tone of the film, but Rosemberg Filho is convinced of the connection between
Nazi barbarism and the pseudo-democratic capitalism that defines life in the region.
Roger Koza
196
O jardim das
espumas
The Foam Garden
El jardn de espumas
Brasil
1970
110
35 mm
color
Perdidos son los hombres sin pasin, porque una solucin para
este mundo es gozar: ah reside la humanidad ms honesta.
Eva Sangiorgi
Eva Sangiorgi
RETROSPECTIVA Luiz ROSEMBERG FILHO
GOZO / GOZAR
ENJOYMENT / ENJOY
DISFRUTE / DISFRUTAR
Brasil
2016
17
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byn
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Linguagem Language Lenguaje
Brasil
2013
20
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color
Direccin
Guin
Luiz Rosemberg Filho
Fotografa
Reneaud Leenhardt
Edicin
Gustavo Herdt
Reparto
Priscyla Bettin
Produccin
Distribucin
Cavideo
Brasil ESTRENO
2010 MUNDIAL
200 15
digital
color, byn
Direccin
Guin
Luiz Rosemberg Filho
Fotografa
Reneaud Leenhardt
Edicin
Andr Scucato
Produccin
Distribucin
Cavideo
RETROSPECTIVA Luiz ROSEMBERG FILHO
O discurso das imagens
Speech of Images
Imgenes del habla
Brasil
2010
19
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color, byn
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Cavideo
RETROSPECTIVA
Angela SCHANELEC
RETROSPECTIVE Angela SCHANELEC
Un mundo misterioso:
el cine de
Angela Schanelec
206
En vez de imitar la vida,
se trata de inventar una forma
de expresin que dependa
exclusivamente de la mediacin
de una cmara
casi prelingstica. Haba indicios
Roger Koza
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A Mysterious World:
Angela Schanelecs
Cinema
210
Instead of imitating life,
the point is inventing a form of expression
which depends exclusively on the
The paradox of the filmic
Roger Koza
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Every now and then, its not
wrong to ponder on the nature
of emotions in cinema. Why
does an image arouse an emo-
tion? In Schanelecs cinema, in
general, and in Der traumhafte
Weg, in particular, the flow of
emotions is unleashed by a radi-
calization of the sensitive expe-
rience. Commotion is physi-
cal, more than narrative, and
it demands a specific atten-
tion. Almost at the end of the
film there will be a panoramic
shot of the vicinity of Berlins central train station. Several things happen, but all the affective force of the
shot lies in the position of a dog and its behavior.
The story starts in Greece. A young couple sings on the street. He dreams of being a singer; she would
like to be a professor, like her mother. A fatality will separate them for a time, and perhaps for ever. The
mother of the young man had an accident. Its 1989; these are times both confusing and of change.
Without warning, the tale will jump to our time and different characters. An actress and her husband are
in crisis; they have a beautiful daughter. Some time later, older, but dressed just as before, the two former
youngsters we saw at the beginning will come back into the tale. All kinds of things have happened, even
though this might not be obvious, and its only then that the whole meaning of the title will be fully grasped.
Bressons influence is not even concealed. The quantity of shots of hands and feet refer aesthetically,
and numerically, to the French master. If indeed one of the characters says he has faith while at the same
time complains about the complete inattention of the Highest, Schanelecs film, however, dispenses with
the theological plus of Bressons cinema. Materialism is absolute, and the contingency of men and things
is inescapable. Without divine intervention, redemption is aesthetic and extra-diegetica beauty that
hasnt been confiscated yet by the impiety of the world nests in the form, in the extreme purity of each
shot, and in the delicacy of a gesture. It is logical then to shudder with the sight a girl licking the wound
of her swimming partner, or the confession of a blind father to his son, whom he recognizes immediately
as an unmistakable blur.
Roger Koza
212
festivales 2017 Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno;
y premios Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto; Festival Internacional de Cine de Hamburgo; Festival
Internacional de Cine de Vancouver; Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla; Festival Internacional de
Cine de Mar del Plata; Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de Zagreb.
FILMOGRAFA Der traumhafte Weg (The Dreamed Path) (2016), Ponts de Sarajevo (segment Princip, Text)
SELECTA (Bridges of Sarajevo [segment: Princip, Text]), (2013), Orly (2009), Deutschland 09-13 kurze
Filme zur Lage der Nation (segment Erster Tag) (Germany 09: 13 Short Film About The State Of
The Nation [segment: First Day]) (2009), Nachmittag (Afternoon) (2006), Marseille (Marseilles)
(2004), Mein langsames Leben (Passing Summer) (2001), Pltze in Stdten (Places in Cities)
(1998), Das Glck meiner Schwester (My Sisters Good Fortune) (1995), Ich bin den Sommer
ber in Berlin geblieben (I Stayed in Berlin All Summer) (1993), Prag, Mrz 1992 (Prague, March
1992) (1991), Weit entfernt (Distant) (1991), Schne gelbe Farbe (Beautiful Color Yellow) (1991).
Der traumhafte Weg
The Dreamed Path
Camino de ensueo
Alemania
2016
86
digital
color
Roger Koza
Airports are the quintessential
symbol of transition; strange
places, almost out of this world,
in-between two points of exist-
ence; fragile thresholds for the
transit of an enormous variety of
bodies with countless places of
origin and stories. Impersonal
passing places, airports can
offer the opportunity for senti-
mental abandonment and con-
fidences, and that is precisely
what happens in Orly, a Paris-
ian airport and also the title of
Angela Schanelecs film/place.
In this movie, numerous crossing tales and life moments are portrayeda young woman who is going to
catch up with her husband meets another man; a mother travels with her son to be at the burial of her
ex-husband, the father of her teenage son; a young couple in a journey; a woman reads a breakup letter,
and so on. All of them wait for their flights to take off.
Orly explores different forms of intimacy in which only the actorsoften at quite a long distance from the
cameraare part of the shooting, as an undeniable authentic crowd surrounds them. The staging is right
on the fringe between fiction and reality; a filmic space of undefined boundaries in which each individual
is a potential character carrying a story of his or her own.
Here, the camera intervenes as an omniscient entity passing through different stories linked to an airport,
which also is a metaphoric place. And, out from this flowing and multiple narrative, a unique poetic power
arises. Remarkable.
Sbastien Blayac
festivales 2010 Berlinale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Berln; Festival de Cine de Los ngeles; Festival
214 y premios Internacional de Cine de Busan; IndieLisboa. Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente.
Orly
Francia - Alemania
2009
84
35 mm
color
This sort of observations and brief scenes constitute the counterpoint proposed by Nachmittag in face
of a meticulous follow up of the tedium and lack of satisfaction which define the emotional state of the
characters, a family of intellectuals (a writer, an actress, and her older brother, also a writer). To film such
a spiritual state doesnt mean that the movie has to imitate the creatures it shows. There is some distance
and coy piety in the portrait while, at the same time, there also is an interestwithout concessionsto
explore an existential downheartedness which does not recognize generational gaps.
The tale focuses on Irenes fleeting visit to her brothers house, built by a lake. Visiting the brother too,
we see Irenes youngest son and the former girlfriend of his older son. Apparently, nothing happens but
domestic chores, moments of leisure, and a few conversations. During a chat between two characters,
someone states that there are isolated moments which offer a pleasurable relief to the fact we exist. And
the film itself develops those fragments in which we feel a change in the quality of the experience. One
of the scenes ends up with a hug; in another, Irene herself (performed by Schanelec) is transfigured as
she remembers a trip to Paris and the circumspect liveliness of her face is, in itself, one of those isolated
moments shown in the film.
The fact this film is rooted in theater (it is based on Anton Chekhovs The Seagull) is of little influence
to the filmic staging. Schanelec shows her surgical precision to know the duration of each shot, and
216 heterodox elegance to place the characters within her frames. Another beautiful evidence of her non-
exhibitionist virtuosity becomes evident as we watch carefully the transitions between one shot and the
next. This is a major filmmaker, always discreet and lucid.
Roger Koza
festivales 2008 Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam 2007 Festival Internacional de Cine de Berln;
y premios Festival Internacional de Cine de Alba, Premio Albacinema Mejor Director; BAFICI. Festival
Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires; Festival Internacional de Cine Europeo,
Barcelona; Festival de Cine Europeo, Bruselas; Festival Internacional de Cine de Haifa; Festival
Internacional de Cine de Busan.
Nachmittag
Afternoon
Atardecer
Alemania
2006
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35 mm
color
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Dry, refined, sharp, synthetic,
thats how Id define Angela
Schanelecs films. And thats
the way Marseille, is, a film
assembled through the con-
sistency of dialogues which
are cleverly triggered, with an
intelligence which subtracts
elements in order to play with
the ambiguity of ellipsis and
provocation. Schanelec ques-
tions interpersonal relations and
delves into their complexity. Her
characters concerns cannot be
explained in words even though words rule the events which happen along that chaotic and senseless
movement of life and its decisions.
In the middle of the sharp light and the clear air of the winter in Marseille, Sophie is a young photographer
who collects bits of the city, which will later be the only souvenirs of her visit. We have no way to get into
her thoughts, its as if her emotions were compressed within those images which she keeps on checking
after shes return to Berlin.
In Schanelecs work theres a parallelism with theater, which the filmmaker plays with as a metaphor
of life itself or as a way to read into its complexity. Antn Chekovs The Seagull is mentioned and this
reference reminds us to a relation with this play in terms of the tones and the interactions between
characters who keep for themselves those feelings which torment them; in particular Sophie, who tries
to control the inner mess she experiences and which makes her confuse love and friendship.
Eva Sangiorgi
festivales 2013 Festival Internacional de Cine de Ro de Janeiro 2009 Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno
y premios 2005 Premio de la Crtica Alemana, Mejor Guin; BAFICI. Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de
Cine Independiente; Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam 2004 Festival de Cannes; Festival
218 Internacional de Cine de Mnich; FIDMarseille. Festival Internacional de Cine de Marsella.
Marseille
Marseilles
Marsella
Alemania
2004
93
35 mm
color
This is the problem presented in Mein langsames Leben. Everything that surrounds the life of young
writer Valerie moves forward into nowhere. Her greatest female friend is about to move to Rome; later,
her father (alwaysand accurately soan off-screen presence) might die and she and her brother will
have to make some decisions; her Berliner friends are also having trouble with their childrens education;
and her boyfriends babysitter gets married.
Everyday acts are not extraordinary in themselves, but they are not insignificant either. The key lies on
which kind of attention is paid to these acts and, in this case, on the way they are filmed. In this sense,
merely through a tracking shot, Schanelec is able to transform a divorced couples stroll into an aesthetic
event (and this is not even the most remarkable of her tracking shots; there is also another noteworthy
stroll in a public square where characters come in and out of the framea masterful shot in terms of both
its visual and sound elements).
And though the film disregards the concept of offering a central conflict, developing it in three acts and
reaching a narrative climax, this does not mean it falls into monotony. What moves forward the films
narrative pulse is Valeries emotional intensity. The actions of the others, and the events which take place,
affect herValerie is happy as she dances with her brother; she is merciful when she meets a woman who
was important in her fathers life; she is perplexed by a woman (an acquaintance of her boyfriends) who
confess to her, at a bank in a mall, that she wants a different life. This film is alive.
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festivales 2002 Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam; Festival Internacional de Cine de Estambul;
y premios Festival Internacional de Gotemburgo 2001 Festival Internacional de Cine de Busan; Festival
Internacional de Cine Entrevues Belfort; Festival de Cine de Tesalnica; Viennale. Festival
Internacional de Cine de Viena; Berlinale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Berln.
Mein langsames
Leben
Passing Summer
Mi vida lenta
Alemania
2001
85
35 mm
color
Roger Koza
Common sense will immediately
classify the provocative drama
of passion presented in Angela
Schanelecs debut feature as
yet another film about a triangle
of desire. And it is, to start with.
A photographer falls in love with
his wifes sister. The synthesis
of the conflict can be seen near
the ending with a crepuscular
open shot in which the three
of them are laying on a bed.
They are not naked and there
isnt even a hint at a contained
perversion; rather, the scene expresses how tiresome can be to go through a fragmented and painful
emotional experience without any quick resolutions. Thus, the film can also be interpreted as a portrait of
the spiritual fatigue that comes into play in such situations.
None of those two descriptions are undeserved, but they are also partial and involuntary unfair. What
Schanelec is filming here is the contingencies of all decisions, their ultimately arbitrary character.
Kierkegaard said that a moment of decision is, at the end of the day, madness. Christian does not
experience exaltation peaks; the greatest rage expressions is Arianes, when she throws things against
the floor or when she screams at her mother, who cant really explain to her what is the difference between
her and her sister. Here, Schanelec also manages to show the effect of the prolegomenon of any vital
decision in the person who has to take it and in those whom the decision affects somehow. In love
matters, and even more so when those engaged are three and not two, drama affects the very structure
of identity. This dimension of anguish is materialized with no verbal excess, without any emphasis.
But the greatest pleasure one derives from the film has to do with the observation of the position of a
man and his decision, his preference, in relation to the advance and retreatin each casein terms of the
place from which he interacts with the two women. The inner and the outer dimensions; the house (or
the car), public squares and other public spaces usually define which of the two women will be chosen.
Therefore, the drama of passion can be foreseen in the ways they inhabit spaces and in the nature of
these spaces.
festivales 1996 Premio de la Crtica Alemana, Mejor Pelcula; Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam
y premios 1995 Festival Internacional de Cine de Mnich; Berlinale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Berln.
Das Glck meiner
Schwester
My Sisters Good Fortune
La suerte de mi hermana
Alemania
1995
82
35 mm
color
Roger Koza
Nadine is a writer. She is
finishing a book. Shes haunted
by a melody she is unable to
establish associations with
and which, therefore, she cant
recall. In her apartment, she
holds a few assorted dialogues
with her boyfriend; sometimes,
their discussion focuses on her
book. Another woman, Carla,
sits inside her car and waits.
At a certain point, she will drive
off and try to find a way to get
rid of the vehicle. There is also
another couple in the tale; and, at a certain passage, they are seen at a hotel receptionshe becomes
obsessed with a man who carries a bag with him and maybe the bag is full of money. The whole film
suggests a secretly oneiric dimension (or a revelation about the way fiction works), as if the film itself
was a section of the book. The mise en abyme is subtly radical and everything flows in it, although the
transitions between sequences are not always clear. The poetic paradox lies on the fact that even though
most shots are fixed (with the exception of a few beautiful tracking shots) they convey a most peculiar
sense of motion. The ending is magnificent and unexpected; and, just before it, there is an explicit
mention to a reiterative concern in this directors filmsthe way a writer (or a filmmaker) thinks about her
work and balances (if she has to) her expressive need with the consciousness that there always exists
a receptor for it.
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Ich bin den Sommer
ber in Berlin
geblieben
I Stayed in Berlin all Summer
Alemania
1993 He pasado el verano en Berln
50
35 mm
color
Roger Koza
226
Schne gelbe Farbe
Beautiful Color Yellow
Hermoso color amarillo
Alemania
1991
5
16 mm
color
Primera pelcula de Schanelec: un test retrospectivo revela de
Roger Koza
227
PRAG, MRZ 1992 PRAGUE, MARCH 1992
PRAGA, MARZO 1992
Alemania
1991
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16 mm
color
Direccin
Fotografa
Edicin
Angela Schanelec
Sonido
Ferial Simon
Reparto
228 Bohumil Hrabal
Angela Schanelec
Produccin
Deutsche Film-und
Fernsehakademie DFFB
Distribucin
Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek
Museum fr Film und Fernsehen
RETROSPECTIVA Angela SCHANELEC
WEIT ENTFERNT DISTANT DISTANTE
Alemania
1991
5
16 mm
byn
Direccin
Guin
Fotografa
Edicin
Angela Schanelec
Reparto
Ulrike Steinbrenner
Ricardo Iscar 229
Frank Schendler
Produccin
Deutsche Film-und
Fernsehakademie DFFB
Distribucin
Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek
Museum fr Film und Fernsehen
PROGRAMA ESPECIAL
Ignacio Agero
Ignacio Agero - SPECIAL PROGRAM
El cine como acto
inaugural
Es quizs esa trama secreta entre ambas pelculas la que nos indica
a revisar la seleccin curatorial. Una invitacin a preguntarnos por
el cine como acto inaugural.
Ivn Pinto
233
Cinema as a
Foundational Act
Each time one of Ignacio Ageros films begins, the whole world
enters into suspension. The filmmaker understands documentary
films are a way to open a parenthesis and put within those
categories with which we usually apprehend that which surrounds
usthat which is close to us, that which is quotidianin order to
truly see it again. He invites us to discoverthrough a technical and
anthropological toolthe life of things. To establish a filmic frameas
we see in films such as El otro da, Aqu se construye, Cien nios
esperando un tren, or Como me da la ganais a foundational act,
an invitation to the world through the cinematic machine.
Ivn Pinto
235
Thirty years later, Ignacio Age-
ro returns to search for his
filmmaker peers and see what
theyre up to. On that basis, he
interweaves some conversa-
tions, with himself bursting into
some film shootings and inter-
rogating the directors on What
is cinematic? Another kind of
urgency exists with respect to
the questions posed in his pre-
vious film, although its a fact
that Agero keeps celebrating
the diversity of intentions in the
Chilean production landscape.
He meets well-known filmmakers, such as Pablo Larran in the set of Neruda, and starts the film with
quotes from his previous work in which he interviewed colleagues of his generation. He then collects
conversations with contemporary filmmakers, from Jos Luis Torres Leiva to Niles Atallah. The film is
already extraordinary for showing us the 'behind the scenes' of films that are now in the contemporary
map of auteurs cinema.
Within that loose structure, Agero mixes images of his films with personal archivesNo olvidar, Cien
nios esperando un tren, El otro da, O morir con gloriaand a visual diary of his own that includes
domestic scenes and travelling memories (snow in Leningrad, the discourses of Gorbachev on TV). This
is a film about time, the one thats lived, the one thats recorded, the one thats understoodthats where
cinema lies, interlaced with life going by and, magically, beyond it. Then he goes back to the question:
What is cinematic? Perhaps it resides in the gaze, in observation? (Is this why he fixates us in the
change of light on a composition of fruits, or in the eyes of the children hypnotized by the screen?) There
is no answerthis is about cinema and theres no need to talk, this must be understood, and each will
understand it the way he or she likes it.
Eva Sangiorgi
festivales 2017 Festival Internacional de Cine de Jeonju 2016 FIDMarseille, Festival Internacional de Cine
236 y premios de Marsella, Gran Premio Competencia Internacional; Festival Internacional de Cine de Ourense,
Mejor Pelcula Competicin Iberoamericana; FICValdivia. Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia;
Transcinema Festival Internacional de Cine; Muestra Internacional Doc Buenos Aires; Festival de
Antofagasta, Chile; Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena.
FILMOGRAFA Como me da la gana II (This Is the Way I Like It II) (2016), O morir con gloria(2015),El otro
SELECTA da (The Other Day) (2012), GAM (2011), El diario de Agustn(Agustins Newspaper) (2008),
La mam de mi abuela le cont a mi abuela (My Grandmothers Mother Told My Grandmother)
(2004), Aqu se construye (o ya no existe el lugar donde nac) (Under Construction:or the Place I
Was Born No Longer Exists) (2000), Neruda, todo el amor(Neruda, All the Love) (1998), Sueos
de hielo (Dreams of Ice) (1993), Cien nios esperando un tren(One Hundred Children Waiting
for a Train) (1988), Como me da la gana(This Is the Way I Like It) (1985), No olvidar(Not to
Forget) (1982), Animal de costumbre(1978), Aqu se construye (Under Construction) (1977), El
Gato(1976), Hoy es Jueves Cinematogrfico(1972).
Como me da
la gana II
This Is The Way I Like It II
Chile
2016
86
digital
color
The directors trajectory is marked on a map he hangs from a wall in his living room. Many of the
neighborhoods are in the outskirts of the city, showing a face of Santiago de Chile, the capital of the
utopic southern republic which is a role model for many heads of state. The involuntary recurrence in
his visits to humble abodes also reveals a legitimate concern of the directorhow to film people from
different social stratums? Ageros democratic sensibility never fails nor does his solidarity, as can be
confirmed at the final credits of the film.
Whenever Agero is not sailing through Santiagos asphalt seas, he remains at home and registers the
monotony of the domestic passage of time. The repetitions of insignificant acts are intervened by the
stagingthe light that comes through the window is transformed into an accessory to the poetics of
El otro da. Agero waits for the imperceptible movement of the Earththough sometimes it is not so
imperceptible, since Chile is a land of earthquakesto move the position of natural light in order for him
to frame a picture of his parents. Everything is open to beauty and surprise.
Ageros film is extraordinary, he always knows how to film and listen to the others while also being able
to make us recognize the cosmos in the low-angle shots of his own house as if a camera in the middle of
Santiago pretended to be a telescope and would never stop defamiliarizing everything that appears on
front of its lens to transform it into poetry. Capitan Agero, a lucid observer of the world, makes us feel
the pleasure experienced by sailors when they hear the much waited-for cry, Land ho!
festivales 2014 Festival de Patagonia, Argentina, Mejor Documental; Festival CineDOC-Tbilisi, Georgia 2013
y premios Festival Internacional de Documentales de Yamagata, Premio de Excelencia; Festival Internacional
de Cine en Guadalajara, Mejor Documental Iberoamericano; FIDOCS. Festival Internacional de
Documentales de Santiago, Mejor Documental; Cinma du Rel. Festival Internacional de Cine
Documental; BAFICI. Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente; Documenta
Madrid. Festival Internacional de Documentales de Madrid 2012 FICValdivia. Festival Internacional
de Cine de Valdivia; Festival Internacional de Cine de Antofagasta, Mejor Largometraje Documental
Nacional.
El otro da
The Other Day
Chile
2012
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In a recent conference, Agero
used a fortunate metaphor
the tradition of cinema is like
an ocean, you enter in it and
from it arises a particular work.
His choice is understandable.
Often, Ageros cinema has
something of a sea adventure.
It so happens that this son of
a member of the Navy (before
it was overtaken by Pinochets
supporters) chose to navigate
on the land with a camera.
Wasnt El otro da some sort of expedition in which Captain Agero established an affective bond among
some of the inhabitants of various archipelagos located in Santiago de Chile?
The only film actually filmed at sea by Agero is the extraordinary Sueos de hielo. An absurd
government project in 1992 ends up becoming an opportunity for him to make his sea film. The true
story is that a ship had to transport 200 tons of icean Austral iceberg for exhibition at the Universal
Exhibitionfrom Antarctica to Seville.
Agero records the sea-crossingand on that stack of images he adds an off-screen voice, a magnificent
text, some visual quotes from John Hustons Moby Dick, a soundtrack with whale singing (attributed to
the icebergs), and sound excerpts from Bartk and Ravelto transform a journey which originally lacked
mystery into an ocean-crossing truly up to any sea-related literary genre. Not only can Melville be felt, but
also Pigafetta, Darwin, and Conrad. For civilization, the sea is the other.
The importance of the word doesnt tarnish the imposing shots that the physical material of the film
provides; rather, it suggests how fiction is potentially anchored in reality. The cleverness of the film resides
in a solidary work and the proposed cadence between visual associations produced by the edition and
the narrative plus of a story which becomes gradually weirder and suggests the dramatic concerns
which sea can kindle in men. From Antarctica to Panama and from there to Seville, the narrator transmits
awe, horror, despair, serenity, freedom. The surprises of the story are unsuspected. A 56-minute-long
masterpiece.
festivales 1995 Festival Internacional de Documentales de Yamagata 1994 Reencuentros de Cine de Amrica
y premios Latina, Toulouse; Festival de Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mejor Documental 1993 Festival Internacional
del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana, Cuba, Mejor Film Experimental.
Sueos de hielo
Dreams of Ice
Chile
1993
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color
Roger Koza
Ignacio Agero filmed one of his
first movies in 1982, denounc-
ing the repression maneuvers
that happened in Lonqun in
those years. The only copy of
No olvidar was confiscated by
the Interior Ministry, restricting
that freedom-of-speech impulse
which was claimed through the
filmic instrument. The filmmaker
was dispossessed of his own
meanscompelled by the facts
to tell the truth, and immediately
silenced by the regime which
caused those events.
Agero returns to the basics of the word (conversations), looking for some answers and some clarity
among his peershe approaches seven filmmakers shooting in Chile. The background theme is
understanding what can be filmed in that country in times of dictatorship. Thus, the film portrayswith
total humilitya generation of creators and serves as a testimony to what cinema is doing in that country,
and for it. Whatever happens, a record remains. It seems to want to tell us that, in the absence of
perspective, meaning lies on intentions and work relationships. However, the film is far from pretending
to be the manifesto of an epoch or of an artistic movementthe point is doing itthe way I like it, just as
Lucho Arnguizs lyrics state in a cumbia song that accompanies the film. This is the spirit with which
the filmmaker permeates his film. Whoever finances films, whomever theyre aimed at, they are part of
an artistic search placed between modesty and provocationcinema doesnt disassociate itself from its
political and social motivations.
Eva Sangiorgi
festivales 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine Transcinema 2014 BAFICI. Buenos Aires Festival Internacional
y premios de Cine Independiente; FICValdivia. Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia 1985 Festival
Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana, Cuba.
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Como me da la gana
This Is the Way I like It
Chile
1985
30
16 mm
color
Ignacio Agero film una de sus primeras pelculas en 1982,
Produccin
Ignacio Agero Producciones
Archivo
Filmoteca - UNAM
ARCHIVE - UNAM FILM ARCHIVES
(FILMOTECA)
Archivo FILMOTECA - UNAM
El documental en
16 milmetros
Cul es la importancia del
ancho de la pelcula?
Francisco Ohem
Archive - UNAM FILM
ARCHIVES (FILMOTECA)
16-mm Documentary Films
Whats the Relevance
of Film Width?
Fifty years ago, a reduced film formatless than half the width used
in commercial or industry filmsfacilitated the dissemination of films
which proved cinema as an equal to other artistic creation forms
previously considered as undisputable carriers of
cultural values.
Irony and sarcasm are effective vehicles for social criticism; in this
case, El Chahuistle, a film by Carlos Cruz and Carlos Mendoza,
analyzes the prevailing situation in rural Mexico and breaks down
the causes which have led to this being one of the most pressing
issues in our country.
But social or political issues are
not the only subjects fit for mak-
ing interesting documentaries,
the most remarkable aspect of
Antonio del Riveros work is that
he focuses his attention on eve-
ryday aspects and seemingly
insignificant moments which
nonetheless are what forms the
most of our lives. This can be seen in his work Apariencias 1, 2, 3,
in which he presents a follow-up of the daily lives of ordinary human
beings.
Francisco Ohem
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Mxico
1976
17
16 mm
byn
Direccin
Guin
Edicin
Alberto Corts
Fotografa
Alejandro Gamboa
Msica
Hctor Zamora
Produccin
Centro Universitario de Estudios
Cinematogrficos CUEC
Distribucin
Filmoteca UNAM
20 de marzo
254
Filmografa selecta
Produccin
Centro Universitario de Estudios
Cinematogrficos CUEC
Distribucin
Filmoteca UNAM
255
El Chahuistle
Produccin
Centro Universitario de Estudios
Cinematogrficos CUEC
Distribucin
Filmoteca UNAM
256
Mxico
1974
80
16 mm
byn
Produccin
Centro Universitario de Estudios
Cinematogrficos CUEC
Taller de Cine Octubre
Distribucin
Filmoteca UNAM Chihuahua, un pueblo en lucha
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Filmografa selecta
127
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color
Direccin
Paul Leduc
Guin
Paul Leduc
Roger Bartra
Fotografa
Georges Dufaux
ngel Goded
Fernando Robles
Leoncio Cuco Villaras
Edicin
Rafael Castanedo
Paul Leduc
J. Richard Robesco
Produccin
Cine Difusin SEP
Office National du Film du Canada
Distribucin Etnocidio:
Instituto Mexicano de
Cinematografa IMCINE notas sobre el Mezquital
Office National du Film du Canada
Festivales y premios
Filmografa selecta
Mxico
1975-1978 Festivales y premios
Produccin
Alejandra Islas
Jos Luis Gonzlez Ramrez
Jorge Prior
Colonos del Campamento 2 de
Octubre
Centro Universitario de Estudios
Cinematogrficos CUEC
Distribucin
Filmoteca UNAM
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Jornaleros agrcolas
Direccin Resplandores del alba (1990), Xochimilco (1985), Laguna de dos tiempos
Guin (1982), Jornaleros agrcolas (1977),Atencingo, cacicazgo y corrupcin
Edicin (1973),Sociedad colectiva quechehueca (1971), Santo Domingo de los Re-
Eduardo Maldonado yes (1971), Reflexiones (1971), Testimonio de un grupo (1970).
Fotografa
Alain Dostie
Henner Hoffman
Sonido
Ral Zaragoza
Narrador
Gerardo de la Torre
Produccin
Cine Difusin SEP
Office National du Film du Canada
Centro de Produccin de
Cortometraje de Churubusco
Distribucin
Instituto Mexicano de
Cinematografa IMCINE
Office National du Film du Canada
260
Mxico
1986-1987
75
16 mm
color
Produccin
Manuel Gonzlez Casanova
Coordinacin de Difusin Cultural
de la UNAM
Filmoteca UNAM
Distribucin
Filmoteca UNAM
Testimonios zapatistas:
Historia, leyenda
y mito de una utopa agrarista
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Filmografa selecta
*Permission for the public performance license of Khesht va Ayeneh has been granted by rights
holder Ebrahim Golestan expressly and only for one screening.
CLSICOS
RESTAURADOS
RESTORED CLASSICS
Die Bchse der Pandora
is an extraordinary film. Who
could have imagined a moment
of absolute sweetness in the
soul of Jack the Ripper? G.W.
Pabsts adaptation of two thea-
tre plays by Frank Wedekind
has little to do with the famous
Londoner murderer (who makes
an appearance in the last ten
minutes) or with a direct repre-
sentation of the famous Greek
myth. After one of the many pre-
tenders of young Lulu dies, the
judge, who will pass severe judgment, compares her to the mythshe may be kind, but her seductive
presence kindles all the evils of the world. Lulu is desired by any man that happens to be around her (and
even women); her beauty is captivating, her libido a physical evidence. The old, the young, a father and
a son, and even Egyptian pimps and the serial killer from the 19th century cant help but fly off the handle
in front of such an erotic and demonic creature, sublime and innocent as she is. The legendary Henri
Langlois said about Louise Brooks, the American actress who interprets Lulu: Not Garbo, nor Dietrich,
there is only Louise Brooks. To see her moving on the screen, to spy upon her cleavage, to recognize
her gestures of seduction and tenderness are the special effects in this film. And Pabst, a filmmaker of
detail and rhythm, was very conscious he had a living gemhe films her as if he was courting her for
everybodys sake.
Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2014 Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena 2010 BFI. Festival de Cine de Londres 1983
Y PREMIOS Berlinale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Berln.
FILMOGRAFA Durch die Wlder,durch die Auen (Through the Forests and Through the Trees) (1956), Rosen
SELECTA fr Bettina (Ballerina) (1956), Es geschah am 20.Juli(It Happened on July 20th) (1955), Der
letzte Akt (The Last Ten Days) (1955), Das Bekenntnis der Ina Kahr (The Confession of Ina
264 Kahr) (1954), Cose da pazzi(Crazy Affairs) (1954), La voce del silenzio (Voice of Silence),
Geheimnisvolle Tiefe(Mysterious Shadows) (1949), Der Proze (The Trial) (1948), Der Fall
Molander (The Molander Case), Paracelsus (1943), Komdianten (The Comedians) (1941),
Jeunes filles en dtresse(Girls in Distress) (1939), Le Drame de Shangha(The Shanghai Drama)
(1938), Mademoiselle Docteur (Street of Shadows) (1937), A Modern Hero (1934), Du haut en
bas (High and Low)(1933), Don Quichotte (Don Quixote) (1933), Die Herrin von Atlantis (The
Mistress of Atlantis) (1932), Kameradschaft (Comradeship) (1931), Lopra de quatsous (The
Four-Nickel Opera) (1931), Die3 Groschen-Oper (The Threepenny Opera)(1931), Skandal um
Eva (Scandalous Eva) (1930), Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie (Westfront 1918) (1930),
Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl) (1929), Die Bchse der Pandora (Pandoras Box)
(1929), Abwege (The Devious Path)(1928), Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney(The Love OfJeanne Ney)
(1927), Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe (One Does Not Play with Love) (1926), Geheimnisse einer
Seele (Secrets of a Soul) (1926), Die freudlose Gasse(The Joyless Street) (1925), Grfin Donelli
(CountessDonelli) (1924), Der Schatz (The Treasure) (1923).
Die Bchse der
Pandora
Pandoras Box
La caja de Pandora
Alemania
1929
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pudo imaginar un momento de dulzura absoluta en el alma de
Jack El Destripador? La adaptacin de G.W. Pabst de dos obras
teatrales de Frank Wedekind poco tiene que ver con el famoso
asesino londinense (que aparece en los ltimos diez minutos) o
con una representacin directa del famoso mito griego. Despus
de que muera uno de los tantos candidatos de la joven Lulu, el
Direccin juez, que dictar una severa sentencia, la compara con el mito:
Georg Wilhelm Pabst podr ser amable, pero su presencia seductora enciende todos los
Guin males del mundo. Lulu es deseada por cuanto hombre est dando
Ladislaus Vajda vueltas a su alrededor (e incluso mujeres); su belleza es cautivante,
Fotografa su libido una evidencia fsica. Viejos, jvenes, un padre y su hijo,
Gnther Krampf hasta proxenetas egipcios y el asesino serial decimonnico no
Edicin pueden evitar perder los estribos frente a esa criatura tan ertica y
Joseph R. Fieseler demonaca como sublime e inocente. El legendario Henri Langlois
Reparto dijo sobre Louise Brooks, la actriz estadounidense que interpreta
Louise Brooks a Lulu: Ni Garbo. Ni Dietrich. Tan solo existe Louise Brooks. Verla
Fritz Kortner moverse en pantalla, espiar su escote, reconocer sus gestos de
Francis Lederer seduccin y ternura son los efectos especiales del film. Y Pabst,
Alice Roberts un cineasta del detalle y el ritmo, era muy consciente de contar
Carl Goetz con una gema viviente: la filma como si estuviera cortejndola en
Krafft-Raschig nombre de todos.
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Extraordinary from end to end.
No superfluous shots, precise
formal decisions, a private and
public drama, an epoch. The
debut feature by writer and film-
maker Golestan is a seminal
film of what became known as
the Iranian New Wave. The ech-
oes in later films by Kiarostami,
Makhmalbaf, Panahi, and other
filmmakers are undeniable, al-
though historical time denotes
an essential differencein the
decade of the 1960s, Iran
looked more modern and secular, as can be seen in various street shots and the masterful scene, pletho-
ric with eroticism, in the small room of the protagonist.
The beginning is magnificent. A woman (interpreted by poetess and iconoclastic filmmaker Forough
Farrokhzad) abandons her baby in the taxi shes traveling in. The taxi driver will immediately realize it and
will go looking for the mysterious woman. The place is gloomy in itself. There live those who have already
been dragged to the limits of whats acceptable. The work on the space in that sequence, and the play
of light and shadow show a scenic confidence rarely seen in a debutant. The following scene is no less
mind-bending: the taxi driver visits a bar with the baby in arms and his acquaintances give their points
of view on his situation. The whole mentality of a time is there to be seen, as are its social and economic
coordinates. But, what will the taxi driver do with the baby?
The film adds a second dramatic route when the mistress of the protagonist intervenes. She wants to be
with him and wont even reject the possibility of providing a home to the orphan. The tension between
them reaches its climax in a discussion they will have in broad daylight while walking through the alleys
of Teheran. Golestan crafts a form of recording in which the conflict materializes; a tracking shot of the
lovers moving in the same direction, but what is actually seen is a sort of shot-counter-shot sequence in
which both of them move (symbolically) in opposite directions.
Each scene introduces an institutional dimension and a situation of social unrest preannouncing the
revolution of the following decade. The final scenes are heartrendingalmost all of the future Iranian
266 citizens will be foundlings.
Roger Koza
FESTIVALES 2016 BAFICI. Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente; Festival Internacional de
Y PREMIOS Cine de Rterdam; Festival Internacional de Cine Entrevues Belfort 2014 FIFF. Festival Internacional
de Cine de Friburgo; Festival Internacional de Cine de Edimburgo.
FILMOGRAFA Asrar-e Ganj-e Darre-ye Jenni (The Ghost Valleys Treasure Mysteries)(1974), Javaherat-e saltanati
SELECTA (The Crown Jewels) (1965), Khesht va Ayeneh (The Brick and the Mirror) (1965), Tappehha-ye
Marlik (The Hills of Marlik) (1963), Mowj, marjan, va khara (Wave, Coral and Rock) (1961), Yek
atash (A Fire) (1961).
Khesht va Ayeneh
The Brick and the Mirror
El ladrillo y el espejo
Irn
1965
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formales precisas, interpretaciones justas, un drama privado y p-
blico, una poca. La pera prima del escritor y cineasta Golestan
es una pelcula seminal de lo que se conoci como la Nueva Ola
Iran. Los ecos en pelculas posteriores de Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf,
Panahi y otros cineastas son innegables, aunque el tiempo histrico
denota una diferencia esencial. En la dcada de 1960, Irn luca
Direccin
Guin ms moderna y secular, como puede verse en varias escenas calle-
Edicin jeras y en la magistral escena, pletrica de erotismo, en el pequeo
Ebrahim Golestan cuarto del protagonista.
Fotografa
Amir Karari El comienzo es magnfico. Una mujer (interpretada por la poetisa y
Soleiman Minasian cineasta iconoclasta Forough Farrokhzad) abandona a su beb en
Sonido
el taxi en el que viaja. El taxista se dar cuenta de inmediato e ir en
Mahmood Hangval
Reparto bsqueda de esa misteriosa mujer. El lugar es de por s tenebroso.
Taji Ahmadi Ah viven los que ya han sido arrastrados al lmite de lo aceptable.
Zackaria Hashemi El trabajo sobre el espacio en esa secuencia y el juego de luces y
Parviz Fanizadeh sombras muestran una seguridad escnica poco frecuente para un
Forough Farrokhzad debutante. La escena que sigue es no menos alucinante: el taxista
visita un bar con el beb en brazos y sus conocidos opinan so-
Produccin
bre su situacin. Toda una mentalidad de poca resulta ostensible,
Studio Golestan
Distribucin tambin las coordenadas sociales y econmicas. Pero qu har el
Film Studies Center of the taxista con la criatura?
University of Chicago
El film suma una segunda va dramtica cuando interviene la aman-
te del protagonista. Ella quiere estar con l e incluso no rechazar
la posibilidad de darle un hogar al hurfano. La tensin entre ellos
alcanza su mxima expresin en una discusin que tendrn a plena
luz del da caminando por los callejones de Tehern. Golestan idea 267
una forma de registro en la que el conflicto se materializa: se trata
de un travelling de los amantes yendo en la misma direccin, pero
lo que se ve es una especie de plano-contraplano en el que ambos
van (simblicamente) en direcciones opuestas.
Just as the title of the film indicates (Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words); in it,
German director Thorsten Schtte (experienced in musical documentaries) offers a portrait that privileges
a lesser known aspect of Zappahis media discourse, a subversive one that placed him as a critic of the
political, educational, and religious system; a defender of freedom who had to fight incessantly against
censorship.
Made exclusively from archive images, mainly from television, Schtte builds an aesthetic thats anything
but TV-like, he rejects the off-screen voice (device par excellence of standardized TV reportages) and
articulatesthrough a subtle montage (an aesthetics of collage)a journey into the mind of a North
American genius of the 20th century.
The musical aspect, however, is not minor, and we see several fragments of live performances where on-
stage appearances by Zappa and his musicians get closer to performance art, alternating sophisticated
compositions and improvisations with lyrics of corroding humor which are, at the same time, absurd,
sarcastic, nihilist, and rebellious.
This filmic object serves as an excellent introduction for Zappas novices, or as a source of amazement
for specialists, with some unpublished images of unquestionable worth. Eat That Question: Frank
270 Zappa in His Own Words establishes a successful profile of Zappas unfathomable universe; and,
much more than the typical biography of a musician, its about the words of a contemporary thinker and
cultural agitator, and one of the most lucid at that.
Sbastien Blayac
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival de Cine de Sundance; Festival Internacional de Cine de Atenas, Premio Golden
Y PREMIOS Athena Music & Film; Festival Internacional de Cine de Melbourne; Festival Internacional de Cine
de Sarajevo; Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastin, Premio Zabaltegi-Tabakalera;
FestivalInternacionalde Cine de Helsinki; Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena.
FILMOGRAFA Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (Eat That Question: Frank Zappa en sus
SELECTA propias palabras) (2016), Dwaal Net Rond (The Forgotten) (2015), Land Matters (2009), Namibia
Generation X (2005).
LAS ISLAS
CIUDAD
Eat That Question:
UNIVERSITARIA
Frank Zappa in His
Own Words
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa
francia - Alemania
2016 en sus propias palabras
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color, byn
FUNCIONES ESPECIALES
(1940-1993) es en s mismo una tarea ardua, por no decir irreali-
zable. En efecto, msico, guitarrista, cantante, ingeniero de soni-
do, productor, autor y compositor de una discografa interminable
(ms de sesenta discos en vida y casi cuarenta lbumes pstumos),
influenciado tanto por la msica clsica y avant-garde de Edgard
Varse e gor Stravinski, como del rock, jazz, doo-wop o la msica
Direccin concreta, adems de ser satirista, activista poltico y ocasionalmen-
Guin te cineasta, Frank Zappa es una figura fundamental y prolfica de la
Thorsten Schtte contracultura de Estados Unidos.
Edicin
Willibald Wonneberger Tal como lo indica el ttulo del film, Eat That Question: Frank
Sonido Zappa in His Own Words, el director alemn Thorsten Schtte
Armelle Mah (experimentado en documentales musicales) hace un retrato que
Marc Fragstein privilegia un aspecto menos conocido de Zappa: su discurso
Reparto en los medios, y uno subversivo que lo impuso como crtico del
Frank Zappa sistema poltico, educativo y religioso; un defensor de la libertad
Arlene Francis de expresin que tuvo que luchar incesantemente en contra de la
Steve Allen censura.
Theodore Bikel
Paul Carman Hecho exclusivamente a partir de imgenes de archivo,
Angel principalmente televisuales, Schtte construye una esttica todo
Katie Couric menos televisual, rechaza la voz en off (dispositivo por excelencia
Vaclav Havel del estandarizado reportaje de TV), y articula a travs de un sutil
Keith Moon montaje una esttica del collage un viaje en la mente de un genio
Ringo Starr norteamericano del siglo XX.
Mark Volman
Peter Wolf El aspecto musical, sin embargo, no es menor, con varios fragmen-
tos de conciertos donde las apariciones de Zappa y sus msicos en 271
Produccin el escenario se acercan ms al perfomance, alternando composicio-
Les Films du Poisson nes sofisticadas e improvisaciones con letras de humor corrosivo, a
UFA Fiction la vez absurdas, burlonas, nihilistas y contestatarias.
Teamworx Produktion
Distribucin Objeto flmico que funciona como excelente introduccin para los
Park Circus Group novicios de Zappa o como asombro para los especialistas, con unas
imgenes inditas de un valor incuestionable, Eat That Question:
Frank Zappa in His Own Words establece un perfil logrado del
inabarcable universo de Zappa, y mucho ms que la clsica biografa
de un msico, se trata de las palabras de un pensador y agitador
cultural contemporneo, y de uno de los ms lcidos.
Sbastien Blayac
There are two temporal and
spatial dimensions that magical-
ly adjoin in the cinematic space
and are attracted like opposites
in tension. One is enacted by
the Sheikh, who takes the road
to be buried in Sijilmasa along-
side his ancestors; the other by
Shakib Ben Omar, a cab driver
who claims to be a preacher.
The same actor who in Todos
vos sdes capitns (ficunam,
2011) replaced Oliver Laxe as
the film director.
Religious suggestions are aroused in the film, since its structured in three chapters which mirror the
positions of Salahlean, stand, prostrate; three moments of the prayer. However, religion is not the
ultimate motive. Laxe seems more interested in questioning tradition and the demystification of the world
due to a dominating skepticism.
Mimosas is a film without territories, timeless, anachronistic, and fantastic. The marvelous cinematography,
showing the desert landscape (filmed by Mauro Herce), follows a journey through the Atlas Mountains, in
Morocco. The narrative structure is a wink to the tradition of the Western, enriched by a certain sarcastic
irony (in the idiocy of the characters). There is no pretension of mystic or hermeneutic revelationthe
magic of cinema is built on the mysteries of tradition, and in the unbelievable confrontation between man
and the sternness of nature. The intention is to find beauty and share it. Laxe confirms to us that cinema
is not to be explained, it is made in the process and it is made of the processLaxe conceives cinema as
an instrument of knowledge. And notwithstanding, it appeals to another level of perceptionthe intuitive
one, the sensitive one.
Eva Sangiorgi
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival de Cannes, Gran Premio Semana de la Crtica; Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla,
272 Y PREMIOS Premio Especial del Jurado, Mencin Especial Mejor Sonido y Montaje; Festival Internacional de
Cine de Toronto; Festival Internacional de Cine de Busan.
FILMOGRAFA Mimosas (2016), Todos vs sodes capitns (You All Are Captains) (2010).
SELECTA
MIMOSAS
Espaa
2016
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35 mm
color
FUNCIONES ESPECIALES
colindan en el espacio cinematogrfico atradas como opuestos
en tensin. Una est protagonizada por el Sheik, que emprende
camino para ser sepultado en Sijilmasa junto a sus ancestros; la
otra por Shakib Ben Omar, que es un taxista que se revindica como
predicador. El mismo actor en Todos vos sdes capitns (ficunam
2011), remplazaba a Oliver Laxe como director de la pelcula.
Direccin
Oliver Laxe
Guin En el film aparecen sugestiones religiosas, ya que est estructurada
Santiago Fillol en tres captulos que retoman las posiciones del zal: inclinarse,
Oliver Laxe pararse, postrarse, tres momentos de la oracin. Sin embargo,
Fotografa no es la religin el motivo de fondo. Laxe parece interesarse ms
Mauro Herce en cuestionar la tradicin y la desacralizacin del mundo por el
Edicin
escepticismo que lo domina.
Cristbal Fernndez
Sonido
Emilio Garca Rivas Mimosas es una pelcula sin territorios, sin tiempo, anacrnica y
Reparto fantstica. La maravillosa fotografa del paisaje desrtico (filmada
Ahmed Hammoud en pelcula por Mauro Herce), sigue el viaje a travs de las
Shakib Ben Omar montaas Atlas en Marruecos. La estructura narrativa hace guios
Said Aagli a la tradicin western, enriquecida por cierta irona burlona (en la
Ikram Anzouli
idiotez de los personajes). No hay pretensin de revelacin mstica
Ahmed El Othemani
Hamid Fardjad o hermenutica: la magia del cine se construye sobre los misterios
Margarita Albores de la tradicin, y en la increble confrontacin entre el hombre
Hwidar y la firmeza de la naturaleza. La intencin es encontrar belleza y
compartirla. Laxe nos confirma que el cine no se explica, se hace
Produccin en el proceso y est hecho del proceso: Laxe concibe el cine como
Zeitun Films instrumento de conocimiento. Y sin embargo, apela a otro nivel de
Distribucin
percepcin: la intuitiva, sensible.
Luxbox
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Eva Sangiorgi
Valentina Pelayo shares a con-
versation with Mexican art-
ist Felipe Ehrenberg, through
a delicate film meant to be a
homage to his continuous ex-
pressive quest and fascinating
personality, and whose critical
reflection was a reference for
the filmmaker during her forma-
tive years. The archive images
go over Ehrenbergs tireless tra-
jectory up to his current work,
equally restless and very active,
conveying an idea of the eclec-
ticism of his art, streaked by a profound sense of humor. With a definite pro Latin-American vocation,
Ehrenberg is, however, an artist of international influence who has contributed to connecting the Mexican
social and artistic scene with international circles. His work is nonetheless profoundly committed with
the situation in Mexico and it is a reflection of his idiosyncrasy, despite the obstacles that have appeared
along his path.
Quoting Jorge Luis Borges and Valeria Luiselli, the director creates a reflectionin the form of an essay
on the interview that guides the structure of the film, pacing the time in chapters that close in a circular
way, insisting on the idea that reunions offer new possibilities. This is, indeed, what the meeting with
Felipe Ehrenberg has represented for Valentina Pelayothe beginning of a new path, inspired by an artist
of extraordinary generosity and communicative power.
Eva Sangiorgi
FESTIVALES 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia; Festival Positivus, Riga; Roma Cinema DOC;
Y PREMIOS Festival Internacional Filmmaker of World Cinema, Berln.
Mxico - Estados
Unidos
2016
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Valentina Pelayo nos comparte una conversacin con el artista
FUNCIONES ESPECIALES
mexicano Felipe Ehrenberg a travs de un delicada pelcula que
quiere ser un homenaje a su continua bsqueda expresiva y fas-
cinante personalidad, cuya reflexin crtica ha sido una referencia
para la cineasta en sus aos de formacin. Las imgenes de archi-
vo recorren la trayectoria incansable de Ehrenberg hasta su obra
actual, igualmente inquieta y muy activa, dando la idea del eclec-
Direccin ticismo de su arte, atravesada por un profundo sentido del humor.
Guin Con una marcada vocacin latinoamericanista, Ehrenberg es, sin
Edicin embargo, un artista de eco internacional que ha contribuido a enla-
Valentina Pelayo zar la escena artstica y social nacional con el exterior. No obstante,
Fotografa su trabajo est profundamente comprometido con la situacin en
Carol Quintanilha Mxico y es reflejo de su idiosincrasia, pese a los obstculos que
Rodrigo Trejo han ido apareciendo en su camino.
Valentina Pelayo
Sonido Citando a Jorge Luis Borges y a Valeria Luiselli, la autora crea una
Anuar Yenya reflexin en forma de ensayo a la entrevista que gua la estruc-
Msica tura de la pelcula, marcando el tiempo en captulos que cierran
Jernimo Rajchenberg de manera circular, insistiendo en la idea de que los reencuentros
Estrella Arias deparan nuevas posibilidades. Esto es, en efecto, lo que ha repre-
Reparto sentado para Valentina Pelayo el encuentro con Felipe Ehrenberg:
Felipe Ehrenberg el comienzo de un nuevo camino, inspirado por un artista de ex-
traordinaria generosidad y poder comunicativo.
Produccin
CalArts Film Eva Sangiorgi
Provost Funds
Arati Films
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An extraordinary homage to a
multi-faceted artist who has in-
fluenced the worlds artistic and
musical scene for five decades,
and who passed away last year.
Tyler Hubby is able to portray
Tony Conrad in all of his com-
plexity and generosityas a mu-
sician, composer, researcher,
mathematician, professor, and
above all, as a curious, produc-
tive, warm, and cheerful human
being interconnected with the
whole field of artistic produc-
tion throughout the years. His work includes music, but also cinema and visual and performance arts, as
well as collaborations with different artists. Conrad, among other things, was one of the founders of The
Theatre of Eternal Music, with La Monte Young, and of The Velvet Underground, with Lou Reed, introduc-
ing a minimalist sensibility in different musical expressions.
The documentary is extraordinarily rich in original recordings in which Conrad remembers his artistic
context and explains his creative processes, and Hubby creates a dialogue with a series of testimonies
including great masters such as John Cale and Jim O'Rourke, who highlight the authority of this master.
Hubby collects archive material in video and photographs of the artistic relations in his inexhaustible
history, on which Conrad reflects from the present, pondering the meaning of art and of each artistic
action, with an avant-garde spirit always ready to reinvent the expressive form and the ways to share it.
An amusing, irreverent, and committed genius faithful to a philosophy that permeated every aspect of his
life and his activities, and one who is still absolutely contemporary and inspiring.
Eva Sangiorgi
FESTIVALES 2017 Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam 2016 Festival Internacional de Cine de Bfalo,
Y PREMIOS Mejor Documental; FILAF. Festival Internacional del Libro de Arte y el Cine, Prix DArgent; Festival
276 de Cine Underground de Chicago; Festival Internacional de Cine Revelation Perth; Viennale.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena; DOC NYC. Festival de Documentales de Nueva York;
Festival Internacional de Cine de Leeds.
FILMOGRAFA Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (Tony Conrad: Completamente en el presente) (2016).
SELECTA
Tony Conrad:
Completely in the
Present
Tony Conrad: Completamente
Estados Unidos
2016 en el presente
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FUNCIONES ESPECIALES
influenciado la escena musical y artstica durante cinco dcadas,
y que nos dej el ao pasado. Tyler Hubby es capaz de retratar a
Tony Conrad en toda su complejidad y generosidad: como msico,
compositor, investigador, matemtico, profesor, y sobre todo, como
el ser humano curioso, productivo, clido y alegre, interconectado
con todo territorio de la produccin artstica a lo largo de los
Direccin aos. Sus trabajos incluyen la msica, pero tambin el cine y
Guin las artes visuales y performticas, y colaboraciones con artistas
Edicin diferentes. Conrad, entre otras cosas, fue parte de los fundadores
Tyler Hubby de The Theatre of Ethernal Music con La Monte Young, y de The
Fotografa Velvet Underground con Lou Reed, introduciendo en diferentes
Fortunato Procopio expresiones musicales una sensibilidad minimalista.
Damian Calvo
Msica El documental es extraordinariamente rico en grabaciones
Tony Conrad originales en las que Conrad recuerda el contexto artstico y
Reparto explica sus procesos creativos, y Hubby crea un dilogo con una
Tony Conrad serie de testimonios que incluyen grandes maestros como John
John Cale Cale y Jim O'Rourke, que recalca la autoridad del maestro. Hubby
David Grubbs recolecta material de archivo en video y fotografa las relaciones
Moby artsticas de su inagotable historia, que Conrad reflexiona desde el
Lou Reed presente interrogndose acerca del significado del arte y de cada
Jim O'Rourke accin artstica, con un espritu de vanguardia siempre dispuesto a
reinventar la forma expresiva y las maneras de compartirla.
Produccin
Distribucin Un genio divertido, irreverente y comprometido, fiel a una filosofa
Sixty Cycle Hum que perme cada aspecto de su vida y sus actividades, que sigue
Burning Bridges siendo absolutamente contemporneo e inspirador.
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Matin Infantil
CHILDRENS MATINE, 2017
This joint effort has the goal of offering free access to culture,
showing Mexican productions made in various different years, and
bringing the Festivals experience to our youngest. We want to
welcome all children to FICUNAM! Our seventh edition celebrates
you and expects your attendance!
2016 2016
4 18 7
Direccin Direccin
Jaime Antonio Aparicio Csar Gabriel Cepeda
MATIN INFANTIL
Guerrero
Jacinta La mquina
2008 2015
10 4
Direccin Direccin
Karla Castaeda Ren David Reyes Garca
2016 2009
5 7
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Marco Antonio Jurez Lpez Tonatiuh Moreno
CLASIFICACIN A
CLAUSURA
CLOSING
Tizza Covi and Reiner Frimmel
interweave their stories drawing
from real characters, portrayed
in their daily environment,
who confer consistency and
spontaneity to the narration.
This is their fourth film devoted
to the circus, a product of
almost two decades of the
directors closeness to that
world, a marginalized and
dwindling place that seems to
speak to us from another time,
with the washed-out colors of the big tops and those dresses crammed with beads and pendants.
The main character is Tairo Caroli, whom we already met years back in La Pivellina, trained in the trade of
lion tamer. The connection with another character, his friend Wendy, is the engine of the story that will lead
Tairo to visit family members after the footprints of Mr. Universe, the only one who, with his extraordinary
strength, will be able to restore their good luck to them. Both of them are the new generation of itinerant
big-top entertainers in a moment in which that entertainment is becoming obsolete. This quest for good
luck allows for the character to regress in time, to his infancy, to the time which all the people Tairo
questions belong, as do his fantastic memories of the marvels of the circus.
These filmmakers are masters at building empathy with the characters by entering the daily intimacy
of their relationships and surroundings. The camera manages to capture the innocence of a world that
imagines itself to be malicious, and seduces us with the veracity of one who inhabits it with a simple and
unexpected humor. Therefore, they chose to film in celluloid, sharing the delight of the grainy image; and,
at the same time, grabbing the opportunity to remind us of another endangered tradecinema.
Eva Sangiorgi
FESTIVALES 2017 Festival Internacional de Cine de Rterdam; Festival Internacional de Gotemburgo 2016
Y PREMIOS Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno, Mencin Especial Competencia Internacional, Premio
282 FIPRESCI; Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto; Festival Internacional de Cine de Reikiavik;
Festival de Nuevo Cine Montreal, Mencin Especial; Festival Internacional de Cine de Ro de
Janeiro; Viennale. Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena, Mejor Pelcula Premio ExtraValue;
Festival Internacional de Cine de Leeds; Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla; AFI. American Film
Institute; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata; Festival de Cine Montauroux; Festival
Internacional de Cine de Marrakech, Premio del Jurado; Festival de Cine de Trieste.
Austria - Italia
2016
90
16 mm, 35 mm
color
CLAUSURA
de personajes reales retratados en su entorno cotidiano, que
confieren consistencia y espontaneidad a la narracin. Se trata de
la cuarta pelcula dedicada al circo, fruto de casi dos dcadas de
su cercana a ese mundo. Es un lugar marginado y en desaparicin
que parece hablarnos de otra poca con los colores desteidos
de las carpas y los vestidos cargados de chaquiras y pendientes.
Direccin
Tizza Covi El personaje principal es Tairo Caroli, a quien ya habamos conocido
Rainer Frimmel aos atrs en La Pivellina, entrenado en el oficio de domador de
Guin leones. La conexin con otro personaje, su amiga Wendy, es el
Tizza Covi motor de la historia que llevar a Tairo a visitar a familiares tras las
Fotografa huellas de Mr. Universo, el nico que con su fuerza extraordinaria
Rainer Frimmel podr regresarles la buena suerte. Ellos dos son la nueva
Edicin generacin de animadores de carpas rodantes en un momento en
Sonido el que ese entretenimiento se hace obsoleto. La bsqueda de la
Tizza Covi suerte da cabida a una regresin del personaje en el tiempo, el de
Reparto la infancia, al que pertenecen tanto las personas que Tairo interroga
Tairo Caroli como sus recuerdos fantsticos de las maravillas del espectculo
Wendy Weber circense.
Arthur Robin
Los realizadores son maestros en construir empata con los
Produccin personajes al entrar en la intimidad cotidiana de sus relaciones y
Vento Film Productions entorno. La cmara logra captar la inocencia de un mundo que se
Distribucin imagina malicioso, y nos seduce con la veracidad de quien lo habita
Be For Films con un humor sencillo e inesperado. Por lo tanto, escogen filmar en
Austrian Films pelcula, compartiendo el deleite de la imagen granulosa, al tiempo
que aprovechan recordarnos de otro oficio en peligro, el del cine.
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CTEDRA
INGMAR BERGMAN EN
CINE Y TEATRO
INGMAR BERGMAN CHAIR ON FILM & THEATER
XX Sesin:
Cine, crtica e historia
287
20th Session:
FILM, CRITICISM,
AND HISTORY
The rise of film criticism implied a mixture of curi- in society by swimming against the current. Their
osity and hope which prompted these individuals work is found in a young fragment of that universe
to approach the dark theater and peer onto the which exploded in the early 20th century with the
blank canvas, which would momentarily paint it- establishment of film institutes and film-produc-
self completely, and learn from all those feasts for tion companies.
the eyes, to later share them with others through
288 their memory and the style of their pens, stepping Critique has value, not only as part of the pro-
behind the magic embodied by the photograms motional arsenal that includes press releases,
and by their own recollections. The journey of film billboards, and placement in newspaper bulletin
language, following the paths of realism, anima- boards, but also because of the importance of
tion, and fantasy, has in turn created the presence the columns, which gradually earned their slot
of critical reflection, and over time this has been and their worthiness of inclusion in the cultural
converted into essential fragments of film history. supplements that gave voice to great authors and
Dazzling films have been even more so, because later inspired specialized journals, or specialized
behind the fleeting encounter on the screen, the sections, when their discovery and recognition
written and printed word has played its part in of new cinemas promoted sales in certain buyer
the communication and conservation of the cin- sectors with their shining collaborations on inserts
ematographic ideas that inhabit cinephilia. His- and their stunning photographs, to attract curious
torians have been hardened by their journalistic onlookers who stared at those bodies trapped by
labor, and they have always earned their place the camera lens.
Explaining the secret of emotions in the dark, playing with ones own and others ex-
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CTEDRA INGMAR BERGMAN EN CINE Y TEATRO
-
Ignacio Agero
Great filmmakers are travelers, and Agero is
one of them. The journeys undertaken by this
director are extraordinary. They can begin at the Las preguntas del navegante:
door of his own house in Santiago, in a search el cine ldico de Ignacio Agero
to know more about the life of the others; or he
can jump into a boat to appropriate himself, in a The Questions of the Navigator:
playful way, that which drove Melville mad and Ignacio Ageros Ludic Cinema
which he codified into a monstrous white whale;
orinnocentlystick his nose as a stowaway in
other filmmakers films in order to inquire into the
nature of cinema. Some directors preach and
assert; others, inquire and explore. In Ageros Los grandes cineastas son viajeros; Agero es
expeditions, each shot poses a question in order uno de ellos. Los periplos del director son ins-
for another to express an experience, and then litos. Pueden empezar en la puerta de su casa
the world itself can restructure its enigmaticor, para ir a recorrer la ciudad de Santiago en busca
rather. poeticnature. de saber algo ms de la vida de los otros; tam-
bin puede subirse a un barco
para apropiarse ldicamente
de aquello que enloqueci a
Melville y que este cifr como
292 Conversa con
una monstruosa ballena blan-
A conversation with
ca; o puede inmiscuirse ino-
centemente como un polizn
Roger Koza
en las pelculas de otros para
indagar sobre la naturaleza de
lo cinematogrfico. Hay direc-
tores que predican y afirman;
hay otros que preguntan y exploran. En las expedi-
ciones de Agero cada plano lanza una inquietud
para que otro exprese una experiencia y el mundo
en s reconstituya su carcter enigmtico o, ms
bien, potico.
Yuri Ancarani
Entre lo ordinario y la experimentacin.
Las perspectivas mltiples del cine de
Yuri Ancarani
CLASES MAGISTRALES
Between Commonplace & Experimentation.
The Multiple Perspectives of Yuri
Ancaranis Films
Narrative Anomaly:
The Non-Conformist Films of Luiz
Rosemberg Filho
An Indeterminate World:
Angela Schanelecs Speculative Cinema
CLASES MAGISTRALES
Regular lives of regular people may be of little sig-
nificance for cinema; however, they can also prove
to be a demanding subject. That symbolic order
is the one chosen by this extraordinary German La vida ordinaria de la gente puede resultar poco
Filmmakeran order marked by the lack of com- significativa para el cine, pero tambin puede ser
municative skills and the indecipherable emotion- una materia exigente. Ese es el orden simblico
al landscape of the characters which people the elegido por la extraordinaria cineasta alemana, or-
universe of her films. Schanelecs filmic intensity den signado por la impericia de la comunicacin
lies on knowing how to film a y el indescifrable paisaje emo-
feeling without providing a psy- cional de los personajes que
chology to codify it, on knowing pueblan el mundo de sus pe-
how to work with actions and Conversa con lculas. La intensidad del cine
relations without presenting a A conversation with de Schanelec reside en saber
tale in which everything is fore- cmo filmar un sentimiento sin
shadowed in terms of destiny Roger Koza ofrecer una psicologa que lo
and the events that are shown. codifique y en cmo trabajar
This demands a rigorous aes- las acciones y los vnculos sin
thetic system in which existen- postular un relato en el que
tial experience is captured through the duration of todo est ya prefigurado, tanto el destino como el
shots, the distance in their register, the percep- sentido de todo lo que sucede. Esto requiere de
tion of the human shape and its disposition within un sistema esttico riguroso en el que se domine
space, as well as the overall relation of all shots. la duracin de un plano, la distancia del registro, 295
la percepcin de la figura humana y su disposi-
cin en el espacio, y la relacin del conjunto de
los planos en pos de capturar una experiencia de
existencia.
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Also, since the moving image has been digitalized in all of its orders (composition,
distribution, exhibition) there is a transformation in terms of an easier accessibility to
it. The paradox is that this new accessibility opens a new problem: the feeble nature
of digital archives. The relation between the past and the future of cinema is also
changing.
1. La prepotencia
del presente y
la presencia del pasado
O formas de problematizacin sobre las
condiciones de la escritura en el ejercicio
de la crtica cinematogrfica
1. The Arrogance
of the Present & the Presence
of the Past
Ways to problematize the conditions for
writing within the practice of film critique
299
Professional film critics usually write about premieres and this phenomenon is
marked by a clear exponential production of contemporary cinema which leads us to
increasingly focus on cinemas present and not in its past. What challenges does this
new equation poses? To which point can we write about contemporary cinema without
establishing a relation between it and its past? How do critics incorporate the relation
with the past in their writing?
Film history is always written from the present. What are the relations
that are established between the prejudices and certainties of the
present and the evidence of the past and its canon? How do the
ways we access to the film past have an influence in the way we
make film history?
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Jorge Ayala Blanco
Mxico Mexico
A critic for over 52 years, he is also a professor at the UNAM Film School (CUEC) and
has published over 30 books in three different series: Mexican cinema, international
cinema, and research. He has published in the most relevant cultural supplements in
Mexican journals; since 1989, he collaborates in the printed-edition cultural section
of El Financiero and, since a year ago, he has also collaborated for its web page.
From 2015 onwards, he also collaborates on the web site La Digna Metfora. He has
received, among other recognitions, the Salvador Toscano Medal to Filmic Merit and
the Jos C. Valads Award to a Career in Historical Research.
Ela Bittencourt
Polonia Poland
Is a film critic, curator and writer, currently based in So Paulo. Her essays and
interviews have appeared in various film and art publications, such as Artforum,
Cineaste, Film Comment, Frieze, and Sight & Sound, among others. As curator,
Bittencourt has organized retrospectives at the True/False Film Festival, the So Paulo
International Film Festival, and at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil. She has taught
film and has been on the selection committee for the Tudo Verdade/Its All True
International Documentary Film Festival since 2015. She holds an M.F.A degree in
Creative Writing from Columbia University, New York.
Roger Koza
Argentina
Michael Pattison
Reino Unido United Kingdom
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Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa
Irn Iran
Fernanda Solrzano
Mxico Mexico
A film critic, essay writer, and editor, she has been published by the
most relevant Mexican journals, as well as in the Spanish magazine
Cuadernos Caimn and in the British magazine Sight & Sound. She
has hosted the TV shows Confabulario, El foco, Encuadre, and
Plano abierto. She is a member of FIPRESCI and has served as a jury
member for numerous film festivals both in Mexico and abroad. She
is currently responsible for the film section of the Mexican magazine
Letras Libres and is a member of the Programming Committee of the
Morelia International Film Festival (FICM).
Malena Souto
Argentina
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TALLER
WORKSHOP
Taller de realizacin
cinematogrfica
Filmic Creation Workshop
Making the most of the seventh edition of FICUNAM, the Ingmar Bergman Chair on Film
& Theater, the UNAM Film School (Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematogrficos),
the Goethe-Institut Mexico, and the UNAM International Film Festival join efforts to
offer this workshop aiming to create a space for filmic exchange and creation between
German and Mexican students.
Angela Schanelec
Aalen, Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany 1962
A German film director, professor, actress, and writer, she is one of the founders of
the Berlin School, which represents the new trend of German contemporary cinema.
She studied Acting at the Frankfurt School of Music & Performance Arts. In 1990, she
began studying Film Direction at the German Film & TV Academy, in Berlin. Since then,
she has been working as an independent filmmaker. Her feature Das Glck meiner
Schwester (My Sisters Good Fortune) won the German Critics Award; and, in 1998,
Pltze in Stdten (Places in Cities) was selected for the Cannes Festival in its section
308 A Certain Regard. Since 2012, she teaches Scriptwriting at the Hamburg University
of Fine Arts. Her most recent film, Der traumhafte Weg (The Dreamed Path), was
presented in the 69th edition of the Locarno Film Festival.
Helena Wittmann
Neuss, Germany, 1982
Originally studying Spanish and Media Studies in Erlangen and Hamburg, she went
on to attend the Hochschule fr bildende Knste Hamburg (HFBK) between 2007
2014, institution where she currently holds a chair. In her films, and within her artistic
practice in general, rooms constitute much more than just bare venues of a storyline.
She questions and contextualizes the boundaries of these roomsin them, with them,
on them, and along them. Since 2015, she works as artistic research assistant at
the Hochschule fr bildende Knste. Her work has been shown internationally in
exhibitions and film festivals.
Angela Schanelec y Helena Wittmann
Academia de Bellas Artes de Hamburgo HFBK
TALLER
a generar un espacio de intercambio y creacin flmica entre
estudiantes alemanes y estudiantes mexicanos.
Angela Schanelec
Aalen, Baden-Wrttemberg, Alemania 1962
Es directora de cine, profesora, actriz y escritora alemana. Fundadora
de la llamada Escuela de Berln, que representa la nueva tendencia
del cine alemn contemporneo. Estudi actuacin en la Academia
de Msica y Artes Escnicas en Frncfort. En 1990 empez
estudios como directora de cine en la Academia Alemana de Cine
y Televisin en Berln. Desde entonces, ha trabajado como cineasta
independiente. Su largometraje Das Glck meiner Schwester
(La suerte de mi hermana) gan el premio de la Crtica Alemana
y Pltze in Stdten (Lugares en las ciudades) fue seleccionada
para la seccin Una Cierta Mirada del Festival de Cannes en 1998.
Desde 2012 es profesora de Guin en la Academia de Bellas
Artes de Hamburgo. Su ms reciente pelcula, Der traumhafte Weg
(Camino de ensueo), se present en la edicin 69 del Festival de
Cine de Locarno. 309
Helena Wittmann
Neuss, Alemania, 1982
Estudi Espaol y Medios en Erlangen y Hamburgo. Asisti a
la Academia de Bellas Artes de Hamburgo entre 2007 y 2014,
donde actualmente tiene una ctedra. En sus pelculas y dentro
de su prctica artstica, las habitaciones constituyen mucho
ms que lugares desnudos para un argumento. Ella cuestiona y
contextualiza los lmites de estas habitaciones: en ellas, con ellas,
dentro de ellas y a lo largo de ellas. Desde el ao 2015 trabaja
como asistente de investigacin artstica en la Academia de Bellas
Artes de Hamburgo. Su trabajo se ha mostrado internacionalmente
en exposiciones y festivales de cine.
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CONCURSO
ALFONSO REYES
FSFORO
SEVENTH CONTEST
SEVENTH
ALFONSO CONTEST
REYES FSFORO
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FSFORO
Concurso de Crtica
Cinematogrfica
Alfonso Reyes Fsforo
Seventh Contest, Alfonso Reyes Fsforo
the UNAM Department of
Political & Social Sciences
reaffirms its commitment to immerse our
community of professors and students
For the last seven years, the Depart- in the world of cinema
ment of Political & Social Sciences ~
has successfully organized the Film
Critique Contest, Alfonso Reyes Fsforo. This is a contest where
film analysis and critique converge around three films specially se-
lected for it by the UNAM International Film Festival.
Con este concurso se busca promover el acerca- Ante ello, la Facultad de Ciencias Polticas y
miento de los estudiantes al arte y la cultura, su Sociales reafirma su conviccin de sumergir a su
participacin directa y la necesidad de construir comunidad acadmica y estudiantil en el mundo
nuevos discursos acadmicos. Estamos con- del celuloide a travs de los caminos del anlisis
vencidos de que el cine, entendido ste como el y la crtica.
lenguaje de las imgenes en movimiento, es sin
duda un medio a travs del cual la comunidad de Este concurso es de nuestra facultad para la
nuestra facultad investiga realidades distintas y se Universidad, sean todos bienvenidos a participar.
empapa en un mundo de creatividad que le permi-
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La mquina 279 Le parc 149
The Park
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Marseilles People Power Bombshell: The 57
Diary of Vietnam Rose
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Orly 215
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O Ornitlogo 55 Staying Vertical
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El otro da 239 King
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Ruinas tu reino 81 utopa agrarista
Ruins your Realm
La tierra an se mueve 83
Still the Earth Moves
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San Siro 165 the Present
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The Saint and the Vedette
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