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,” […]
Brazilian Cinema
Film Quarterly 74.2 – New Brazilian Cinema
I’m in great company in the new issue of Film Quarterly, which has a dossier on Brazilian cinema edited by B. Ruby Rich and João Luiz Vieira, available for subscribers and scholars with institutional access. My article is titled “The Monstrification of Underdevelopment in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema: Ava Yvy Vera and Seven Years in May,” […]
Three Brazilian short films 2010-2020
The excellent Cine Festivais invited a large group of critics to submit lists of three short/medium length Brazilian films made between 2010 and 2020 which have had a deep impact on each writer. I have translated the short accompanying text that I wrote about my choices, and you may watch one of the films – […]
Three events
I am looking forward to joining Dana Khromov and Robert Cargni on Monday, November 9, for a virtual discussion of Marília Rocha’s Aboio (Cattle Callers, 2005). The film will have a virtual screening as part of a series programmed by Robert Cargni for the Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Watch the […]
A conversation with Caetano Gotardo, Paula Gaitán, Pedro Diógenes, and Rodrigo Ribeiro
Luz nos Trópicos, A Morte Branca do Feiticeiro Negro, Pajeú, and Todos os Mortos
I will be hosting a conversation with the directors of four recent Brazilian films tomorrow: Paula Gaitán, of Luz nos Trópicos (Berlinale); Rodrigo Ribeiro, of The White Death of the Black Wizard (DocLisboa); Pedro Diógenes, of Pajeú (FIDMarseille); and Caetano Gotardo, of All the Dead Ones (Berlinale), co-directed with Marco Dutra. The conversation will be in Portuguese, […]
Pajeú (2020), Pedro Diógenes
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * The film is featured at Olhar de Cinema – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Curitiba, Brazil. The dammed In a landmark essay originally published in 1976, Canadian critic Robin Wood suggested that horror cinema was the arena where American society exercised what Freud called “the return of the repressed.” For […]
New short film streaming at Festival Ecrã
My new short film, In Another Eye (8′), has premiered at the great experimental film festival Festival ECRÃ. The festival is taking place online and you can watch the film with English and Portuguese subtitles from anywhere in the world between Aug 20-30. It is my first film since Two Birds (2016).
Republic (2020), Grace Passô
The journal of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) published a new dossier or their online platform (SCMS+) called “Short Attention Span Criticism.” Edited by Cara Dickason, Rebecca M. Gordon, and Pamela Robertson Wojcik, “Short Attention Span Criticism” is a collection of experimental short-form writings on film and media reflecting on film and […]
Le Quattro Volte (2010), Michelangelo Frammartino
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética in April 2013. Meta-existence Le Quattro Volte, by Michelangelo Frammartino, starts out like a typical observational film. After a few seemingly gratuitous shots of an artisanal charcoal clamp, we start following the steps of a nameless elder (Giuseppe Fuda) who works as a goat herder in a […]