Cinemancia 2022
On The Eve of the Future, Alonso Aguilar Candanedo, Arta Barzanji, Abraham Villa Figueroa, 2024
Eduardo Williams on The Human Surge 3 (2023)
The Argentine filmmaker Eduardo Williams’s works have continuously pushed the film-grammar envelope. From Could See a Puma (2011) to A Very Long Gif (2022), his exploratory spirit constantly searches for innovative ways in which the digital texture, the cinematic artifact, and the moving image apparatus themselves can be investigated and tinkered with. The aim? Taking the plunge into the uncertain future of cinema through new sensory experiences...
The Argentine filmmaker Eduardo Williams’s works have continuously pushed the film-grammar envelope. From Could See a Puma (2011) to A Very Long Gif (2022), his exploratory spirit constantly searches for innovative ways in which the digital texture, the cinematic artifact, and the moving image apparatus themselves can be investigated and tinkered with. The aim? Taking the plunge into the uncertain future of cinema through new sensory experiences...
Watch | The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do
Colombia is a land of ghosts. Two siblings roam these mystical landscapes searching for their dead father's spirit. Their journey takes them from the city of Bogotá to the Colombian jungle, through realms of thought and deep into their haunted dreams. Here they will find some answers and attract unexpected company. Latin American cities have always existed as liminal spaces, unnatural assortments of edifices where timelines collide, and spirits roam aimlessly for all eternity. Their surroundings...
Embodying Resistance
A swooshing soundscape is borne out of scorching flames, motor engines, and industrial machinery. Dogs barking and a nearby siren collide in the background as smoke and fire constitute the visual layer of an oppressive ambiance. Intertitles soon announce the setting as Sol Nascente, Ceilanda, a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Brazil’s capital city of Brasilia, where dirt roads and hard labour suffuse the picture of daily life. This is the world of Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós’ Dry Ground...
Reframings: Latin American Highlights From the 2023 Berlinale — Cinema Tropical
In Rubén Gámez’s The Secret Formula / La fórmula secreta (1965), the iconographies of Mexican identity are seen to be in flux. Once vignettes of daily life and symbols of a collective, national state of being, their representation starts eroding by the advent of Western referents and the commodities of a globalized way of life, one of so-called development and prosperity. Obtuse and distorted in their marginalized refractions, these previous bastions of Mexican-ness start drifting away from the...
The Film Verdict: Rotterdam Festival Day 9
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Foundations of Resistance in Bolivian Cinema — Cinema Tropical
By Alonso Aguilar Whenever a nation’s filmography is seen as an almost unipersonal endeavor, it soon becomes clear that something has been lost to the outside viewer. No matter how relatively small the cinematic output may seem, the intricacies behind a country’s filmography simply can’t be all summarized in a single creative vision. For many years, most cinephiles’ approximation to Bolivian cinema began and ended with the figure of Jorge Sanjinés. It’s true that Sanjinés’ role in the developmen...
Latin American Cinema at NYFF 60 — Cinema Tropical
By Alonso AguilarAs a showcase of the most celebrated works of the year’s European and North American festival circuits, the New York Film Festival (NYFF) tends to be one of the quintessential barometers for the ongoing trends around the “arthouse world.” On its 2022 edition, the main slate programming boasts auteur highlights from Cannes, Berlin and Venice as the core of its roster, with a dedicated space for more eclectic works being featured in the Currents section, where all kinds of lengths...
Growing in the Spotlight: How Costa Rica’s Current Film Awakening Relates to Its Erratic History — Cinema Tropical
By Alonso AguilarAs Costa Rican films have become a surprisingly steady fixture in some of the world’s most important film festivals in the last couple years, attention to this small Central American nation’s cinematic output has increased exponentially. Even going back in time less than a decade ago, the mere idea of being able to talk about aesthetic trends and a diversity of artistic voices within the tico context seemed like a distant pipe dream. Despite many young and enthusiastic filmmaker...
