VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética in November 2016. The politics of attention At an interview included in the book Dissenting Words, the philosopher Jacques Rancière tells a story of working-class emancipation published at a militant newspaper during the French Revolution: “He is in a bourgeois home, laying the wood floors; he is […]
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Terror! (2007), Ben Rivers
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética in February 2014. Terrorism and reification Between the cinema and the visual arts, Ben Rivers has created a body of work that overlaps documentary, fiction, installation, and photography, with special attention to the materiality of photochemical film, and a predilection for characters whose lives are intimately connected […]
Naked Childhood (L’Enfance Nue, 1968), Maurice Pialat
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Orginally published at Cinética in March 2014. Redefining impressions “Film people, film the world as if cinema was just getting born. Be suspicious of the cinema-institution, the machine that reproduces appearances. Reject technical découpage and all of cinema’s know-how; act as if there was no ‘film language’ already in place. Rediscover the […]