I still haven’t gotten around to writing about Neon Bull for Cinética, but I didn’t want to overlook the beginning of Gabriel Mascaro’s first US retrospective, starting today at Lincoln Center. I’ve been writing about Mascaro’s work since 2009, when High Rise (Um Lugar ao Sol – literal translation: a place in the sun) premiered […]
Archives for April 2016
Housemaids (Doméstica), by Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil, 2012)
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published in Portuguese at Cinética in May 2013 and in English in February 2014, later republished in revised form in Victor Guimarães (ed.), Housemaids (Recife: Desvia, 2014) 22-27. Imponderable dramaturgy When I wrote about Gabriel Mascaro’s 2010 short The Adventures of Paulo Bruscky, one of the notes left out of the final […]
Frederick Wiseman
Notes from last year’s masterclass with Frederick Wiseman, at the Museum of the Moving Image (his words, filtered and probably reimagined by me), that came back to mind after yesterday’s (first and much belated) viewing of Titicut Follies (1967) on a stunning new 35mm print playing at Metrograph: “The institution thing is a bit of a gimmick. […]