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).
Gallery/Museum
Museum Hours (2012), Jem Cohen
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética in November 2016. The politics of attention At an interview included in the book Dissenting Words, the philosopher Jacques Rancière tells a story of working-class emancipation published at a militant newspaper during the French Revolution: “He is in a bourgeois home, laying the wood floors; he is […]
Terror! (2007), Ben Rivers
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética in February 2014. Terrorism and reification Between the cinema and the visual arts, Ben Rivers has created a body of work that overlaps documentary, fiction, installation, and photography, with special attention to the materiality of photochemical film, and a predilection for characters whose lives are intimately connected […]
Naked Childhood (L’Enfance Nue, 1968), Maurice Pialat
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Orginally published at Cinética in March 2014. Redefining impressions “Film people, film the world as if cinema was just getting born. Be suspicious of the cinema-institution, the machine that reproduces appearances. Reject technical découpage and all of cinema’s know-how; act as if there was no ‘film language’ already in place. Rediscover the […]
The Day Was a Scorcher (2009, Ken Jacobs)
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS Photographic trip Ken Jacobs has been offering a huge number of his films on his Vimeo channel. It’s a terrific opportunity to catch up with one of the most inventive and prolific filmmakers of the past sixty years. There are currently 250 videos (and counting), only a few of which are excerpts […]
Carlos Adriano’s “cinepoemas”
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS Since 2014, the filmmaker Carlos Adriano has released a singular series titled Apontamentos para uma Autocinebiografia (em Regresso) – Sketch Notes for a Self Biopic (in Regress). Originally released as standalone films at both local and international film festivals, the entire series is now presented alongside Festejo Muito Pessoal (A Very Personal […]
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 […]
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 […]
News from Home
. The winners of the 8th Cinema Tropical awards will screen at the Museum of the Moving Image this coming weekend, February 2-4. I was part of the fiction film jury last year and, if the criteria haven’t changed, the awards are for Latin American films with a festival premiere between May 2016 and April […]
The erotic humor of Sergei Eisenstein
Alexander Gray Associates has a show on called Sergei Eisenstein drawings 1931-1948 (closes February 11). The objective title conceals a revelation: the collection of drawings – many of them, in America for the first time – consists almost entirely of humoristic sketches of (literally) graphic sexual nature. The downplaying of this sensational fait divers masks […]