The Museum of the Moving Image will be showing the two latest features by Adirley Queirós this Saturday, as part of Reverse Shot’s series on 15 rising auteurs. It’s hard to overstate the importance of Adirley Queirós in recent Brazilian cinema, and how generative his work can be for international audiences while keeping an unshakeable […]
Archives for December 2018
Fengming (He Fengming, 2007), Wang Bing
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética on March 2008. Three hours of life Watching Fengming is an unrepeatable experience – and this has little to do with how hard it can be to find the film. It is unrepeatable because of its monumentality. First of all, the film is monumental for a structural […]
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2OO3), Wang Bing
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética in May 2008. |Time traveler| Shenyang is being dismantled. Once an industrial center which produced armaments for the Japanese army, the city was repurposed around a steel industry with the Cultural Revolution. Home to more than 2 million Chinese, Shenyang is observed by Wang Bing between […]