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SHORT REVIEWS (03): VIDA EN SOMBRAS / LIFE IN SHADOWS
Life in Shadows / Vida en sombras, Lorenzo Llobet- Gràcia, Spain, 1948 By Roger Koza Though festivals have the obligation to program new pictures, sometimes they also include secret movies,...
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SHORT REVIEWS (04): NICHNASTI PA’ AM LAGAM / ONCE I ENTERED A GARDEN / UNA...
Nichinasti Pa’ Am Lagam / Once I Entered a Garden. Avi Mograbi, Israel, 2012 Por Roger Koza In a glorious passage, Ali El Azhari, a Palestine professor of Arab, tells Philippe, Avi Mograbi’s —the...
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SHORT REVIEWS (05): SAN ZIMEI / THREE SISTERS / TRES HERMANAS
San Zimei / Three Sisters, Wang Bing, China, 2012 By Roger Koza Wang Bing’s work is of capital importance. The most relevant documentary-filmmaker of the Sixth Genera tion, he’s been working in some...
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SHORT REVIEWS (06): EL RUIDO DE LAS ESTRELLAS ME ATURDE | THE SOUND OF THE...
El ruido de las estrellas me aturde / The Sound of the Stars Dazes me, Eduardo Williams, Argentina, 2012 Por Roger Koza A hypothesis: young Argentinean director Teddy Williams —who on May, last year,...
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SHORT REVIEWS (07): CALLE LÓPEZ / LÓPEZ STREET
Calle López / López Street, Lisa Tillinger and Gerardo Barroso, México 2013 Por Roger Koza In the eyes of a foreigner practically any street of Mexico City’s Centro Histórico holds potential for a...
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SHORT REVIEWS (08): DIE ZEIT VERGEHT WIE EIN BRÜLLENDER LÖWE / TIME GOES BY...
Die Zeit Vergeht Wie Ein Brüllender Löwe / Times Goes by Like a Roaring Lion, Philipp Hartmann, Germany, 2013 By Roger Koza A filmic philosophical essay often poses a challenge: how to film an idea?...
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SHORT REVIEWS (09): SUEÑO Y SILENCIO / THE DREAM AND THE SILENCE
Sueño y silencio / The Dream and the Silence, Jaime Rosales, Spain, 2012 By Roger Koza The invisible emotional work of mourning is not often filmed with precision; inevitable as its very causes,...
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SHORT REVIEWS (10): DOSSIER SCOLAIRE / SCHOOL FILES
Dossier scolaire Dossier Scolaire / School Files, Andreas Bolm and Noëlle Pujol, France-Germany, 2012 By Roger Koza Who is the main character? The answer is clear: three youngsters who lurk in the...
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SHORT REVIEWS(11): ESCUELA NORMAL / NORMAL SCHOOL
Escuela normal / Normal School, Celina Murga, Argentina, 2013 By Roger Koza This superb documentary features Argentina’s first Escuela Normal (Normal School) as scenery, a paradigmatic institution...
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SHORT REVIEWS (12): P3ND3JO5 / MES FICUNAM 2014 (06): MATERIAL VIRGINS
P3nd3jo5, Raúl Perrone, Argentina, 2013 By Raúl Perrone What is a cumbiópera? (1) It is a heterodox fusion of two musical genres with just one thing in common —the twelve notes of the musical scale....
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SHORT REVIEWS (13) / MES FICUNAM 2014 (08): PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPE
Costa da Morte, Lois Patiño, España, 2013 In everyday life, our optical behavior rarely imitates the panoramic of cinema. Maybe that’s the reason we don’t see many panoramic shots as central shots in...
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SHORT REVIEWS (13) / MES FICUNAM 2014 (12): KNOWLEDGE AND READING FOR ALL
The Joycean Society, Dora García, Belgium, 2013 By Roger Koza ‘Sculpting in time,” that was Tarkovsky’s way for describ- ing cinema. Without the meta- physical density of this Russian filmmaker, Dora...
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SHORT REVIEWS (14) / MES FICUNAM 2014 (14): THE MATERIAL EVIDENCE OF ABSTRACTION
Three Interpretation Excercises / Trois Excercises d’ Intérpretation, Francia-Rumania, 2013 Por Roger Koza Cinema and philosophy –this thesis is not mine– create concepts. A concept gives some order to...
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SHORT REVIEWS (15) / MES FICUNAM 2014 (16): BIGGER THAN LIFE
E Agora? Lembra-me / What Now? Remind me, Joaquim Pinto, Portugal, 2013 A survivor’s confession trans- posed into cinema, a dialectic and loving treaty on theology and biology (or how Darwin, Saint...
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SHORT REVIEWS (16) / MES FICUNAM 2014 (19): THE EVIDENT AND SECRET LIFE OF...
At Berkeley, Frederick Wiseman, EE.UU., 2013 How do institutions think? The anthropologist Mary Douglas would have loved the magnificent four-hour film At Berkeley, the 38th made by a genius,...
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SHORT REVIEWS (17) / MES FICUNAM (20): AFTER BOYHOOD
El lugar del hijo / The Militant, Manolo Nieto, Uruguay-Argenina, 2013 Por Roger Koza At the beginning of the film, an open shot shows a deep knowledge of the (filmic) space and time occupied by the...
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LAPSES OF LIFE (A SHORT FILM PROGRAM FOR 16 FESTCURTAS BH)
El asombro By Roger Koza The title of this section is a distorted loan from a great film by Alexander Balaguara, whose title is “Lapses of life of an object in the frame”. The Ukranian director’s film...
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FILMFEST HAMBURG 2014 (01): REINVENTING CINEMA
Favula By Roger Koza Favula is one of the most beautiful and singular film in the last years. Who could have filmed something like this not having studied cinema nor in the Moon or in Jupiter?...
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VIENNALE 2014: DISTANT VOICES FROM A CENTURY GONE
On Nepal Forever and The Incomplete Nepal Forever By Roger Koza One of the most mysterious films in the last years, it is ideologically unstable, lovable at all times, and secretly defiant. What is...
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SHORT REVIEWS (18): ANCIENT SECRETS
O Velho do Restelo / The Old Man of Belem, Manoel De Oliveira, Portugal 2014 By Roger Koza In his last public appearance, Serge Daney said: “Without a doubt, the greatest filmmaker in the present is...
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