VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS The trees and the blues In the first shot of Oráculo, a metal bridge is framed by waving palm trees in the foreground, shaken by the same wind that allegedly fascinated Georges Méliès when he first watched a Lumière film. The contrast between foreground and background carves a gestalt between the idyll […]
Archives for January 2021
Açucena (2021), Isaac Donato
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS The fear of cinema The Tiradentes film festival is happening online this year until January 30th, and a good number of the films are screening worldwide with English subs. In the past decade or so, Tiradentes has established itself as one of the main sources of new talent in Brazilian cinema. With […]
Two webinars
Both Film Quarterly and Zapruder World – two journals where I have just published new essays – will be holding webinars within the next few days to celebrate the release of their new issues and discuss the texts. I’m looking forward to joining my fellow authors to talk about “The Monstrification of Underdevelopment in Contemporary Brazilian […]
More on the monstrification of underdevelopment
Filmmaker Joshua Troxler has shared with me some thoughts that add interesting points and correlations to my article recently published at Film Quarterly, “The Monstrification of Underdevelopment in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema: Ava Yvy Vera and Seven Years in May.”: “For whatever reason it made me think of James Whale’s films – mainly the Frankenstein series […]
New article at Zapruder World
I have an article in the new issue of the peer-review journal Zapruder World – An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict, a special issue on cinema and social conflict edited by André Keiji Kunigami, Daniel Fairfax, and Luca Peretti. The article is titled “Brazil in Social (Un)Rest: Cinema in a Provisional State,” […]