Category: film
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Anti-cinema
Woman, Ukrainian, Jewish, Esfir Shub was an absolute pioneer in filmmaking created from documentary film archives. She was thus a forerunner of Soviet cinéma vérité (Kino-Pravda, Dziga Vertov, and others), analytical documentary cinema, and the so-called essay film. Faithful to the avant-garde logic of Soviet agitprop at the dawn of a revolution that took Russia…
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Invisibles and the Parliament of Others
Invisible Others As I define who the main constituencies of the Parliament of Others would be, the sea can only be a major one. I placed it in a section called ‘Hyperobjects.’ Allan Sekula and Noel Burch wrote the following texts for their essay film, The Forgotten Space. Both deserve to be in the Parliament…
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A Princesa do Cinema Português
Flashback Quando vi fotografias da Manuela Serra dos anos oitenta do século passado, reconheci imediatamente aqueles olhos que riem, as suas mãos andarilhas e o eterno cigarro que arde à sua volta. Lentamente veio o resto: Rui Simões, captações de imagem e som na Serra de Sintra, numa casa do Penedo… e os olhos que…
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War and Peace
Breaking the Connection By Andrei Loshak The war came not only to Ukraine. She also came to Russian families. Society split into two camps: opponents and supporters of the “military operation”. There is no more neutrality. Treating “with understanding” is also no longer possible. Every Russian has relatives and close people with whom, after February…
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