VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS Two feature films I’m involved with are having their world premieres this week. If you’re going to one of the three festivals, please consider watching them. While you’re at it, make sure to take a look at the other many Brazilian titles playing in each of them in this especially rich year. […]
Brazilian Cinema
Permanent contradiction: a conversation with Adirley Queirós
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética on August 2015. Interview by Fábio Andrade, Filipe Furtado, Raul Arthuso, Victor Guimarães, and Juliano Gomes. In 2014, we got together with Adirley Queirós during the Olhar de Cinema festival in Curitiba for a conversation that lasted two and a half hours. From a journalistic point of […]
Two films by Adirley Queirós at the Museum of the Moving Image
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 […]
Nothing (Nada, 2017), Gabriel Martins
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS A one and a one The short films directed by Gabriel Martins show a multi-faceted pattern of confrontation and negotiation between the director’s gaze and the conventions of different genres and modes of practice: the essay film (the wonderful Amazing World Remix, 2014), the multiplot gangster film (The Inside, 2010, co-directed with […]
The Two Irenes (As Duas Irenes, 2017), Fabio Meira
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS Tonight there will be a screening of the excellent The Two Irenes, by Fabio Meira, at the Anthology Film Archives. The film screens at 7:15pm, as part of a series put together by Cinema Tropical, titled If You Can Screen it There: Premiering Contemporary Latin American Cinema. After the screening, I will be taking with director […]
Holy Tremor (Terremoto Santo, 2018), Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS | The artificial divine | One of the most striking set compositions in Holy Tremor – a short video by the Brazilian-German duo Barbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca recently featured in the program LGBTQ Brazil, curated by Ela Bittencourt for the Museum of the Moving Image – shows a landscape of […]
Last Conversations (Últimas Conversas, 2015), Eduardo Coutinho
* Originally published at Cinética in August 2015. VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS Fade out A simple yet quietly revealing statement serves as the film’s introduction: Last Conversations is the title Eduardo Coutinho could not have chosen for this film, for it only makes sense after his passing. It is also a title that’s faithful to his descriptive […]
New article at Aniki
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS The Portuguese journal Aniki – Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento has a new issue out with a special selection of articles about Brazilian cinema in the neoliberal age. Edited by Lúcia Nagib, Ramayana Lira de Sousa, and Alessandra Soares Brandão, Brazilian cinema in the neoliberal age covers specific topics concerning the […]
Moscow (Moscou, 2009), Eduardo Coutinho
* Originally published at Cinética in April 2009. VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS | In the dark | In the opening shot of Moscow (Moscou, 2009), an actor wearing a t-shirt of the theater group Galpão holds a photograph of a park and tells the camera about the first time he spent his vacation in Moscow. His most […]
Displacing Identity I
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS The crossroad between the cinema and the gallery space is one of complementarity and dissent. At the same time that moving image works made for the museum are in many ways a refusal of cinema – sometimes, a refusal of the very apparatus: the dark room, the hidden projector, the rows of […]