VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética in October 2016. The symbolic is dead, long live the symbolic 1. Cristi Puiu’s Sieranevada starts with an awkwardly composed shot of an SUV carelessly parked in the middle of the street. Lary (Mimi Brănescu) gets off and goes inside a building, leaving his idling vehicle for […]
Archives for February 2021
De Portugal para o Mundo
I had a great time chatting with Hernani Heffner and Luis Mendonça about contemporary Portuguese cinema last night. The panel was part of the program “De Portugal para o Mundo,” a selection of 28 films programmed by Pedro Henrique Ferreira at CCBB Rio. The program will also have iterations in São Paulo and Brasília. The […]
Rotterdam, Film Quarterly, Zapruder World
. The International Film Festival Rotterdam is taking place online this year, and the festival has created a collection of critical texts titled Appreciation to go along with this year’s competition. I wrote about Madiano Marcheti’s feature debut, Madalena, and the article is available for free; . The Film Quarterly webinar is available to stream […]
Nũhũ yãg mũ yõg hãm: Essa Terra é Nossa! (2020), Isael Maxakali; Sueli Maxakali; Carolina Canguçu; Roberto Romero
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS Anti-cabotage When the Portuguese colonized Brazil, cabotage became one of the more efficient practices to map and occupy that “new” territory. Generally used to describe systems of transport by foreign companies within the confines of one country, the practice of “cabotagem” consisted of short trips around the Brazilian coast, kickstarting the country’s […]