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 […]
Cinema
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,” […]
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 […]
Los Conductos (2020), Camilo Restrepo
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * The film is featured at Olhar de Cinema – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Curitiba, Brazil. Closed circuit Right around the thirty-minute mark of the feature film debut of France-based Colombian filmmaker Camilo Restrepo, Los Conductos, there is a scene at a department store where the film’s protagonist, Pinky (Luis […]