CON LOS OJOS ABIERTOS

ENTREVISTA CON SANTIAGO MITRE / EL ESTUDIANTE, ARGENTINA, 2011 Por Roger Koza Santiago Mitre tiene 31 años. Hasta ahora se lo conocía por el film colectivoEl amor (primera parte) y por su trabajo como guionista en las dos últimas películas de Pablo Trapero, Leonera y Carancho. Pero nada será lo mismo para este talentoso director, admirador de Michael Mann […]

Por Roger Koza LOW DEFINITION CONTROL / MICHAEL PALM / AUSTRIA, 2011 Deleuze and Foucault readers will quickly recognize some of their theses illustrated with great precision in this lucid film essay by Michael Palm. Indeed, “societies of control” and “bio-politics” are no longer ideas conceived by brilliant minds of the past century but a […]

YATASTO, HERMES PARALLUELO, ARGENTINA, 2011 The opening shot of Yatasto shows the beginning of a world. Darkness prevails for a few seconds until the fire —slowly beginning to heat the morning’s yerba mate— takes over. Ricardito and his pals rose early. A day as many others begins and instead of putting on school uniforms the […]

By Roger Koza LOS ÚLTIMOS CRISTEROS, MATÍAS MEYER, MÉXICO, 2011 At the beginning there is only darkness: a voice over, the distinct sonority of a man who has certainly lived for a long time; a survivor of the Cristero War fought at the end of the second decade of the 20th century. The voice sums […]

By Roger Koza TERRI, AZAZEL JACOBS, EE.UU., 2011 This new film by Azazel Jacobs, son of the brilliant Ken Jacobs, shows that not everything is lost for renowned American indie cinema though it might sometimes seem to drift from its mumblecore variety to a complete absorption into a representational system hard to differentiate from mainstream […]

TWO YEARS AT SEA, BEN RIVERS, REINO UNIDO, 2011 Jake Williams es el único y cautivante personaje de Two Years at Sea. Se dirá que el film de Rivers es fácil de abrazar (y de odiar). Planos largos sofisticados, un trabajo ostensible sobre la textura de la imagen, una fotografía en blanco y negro notable, […]

By Roger Koza PAPIROSEN, GASTÓN SOLNICKI, ARGENTINA, 2011 After his extraordinary debut with Süden, a precise portrait of musician Mauricio Kagel, Gastón Solnicki proves that his talent is independent from that elegant and dominant character who is both the object and subject of his first film. This time, after a ten-year register period, Solnicki orchestrates […]

By Roger Koza At least until the 20th century philosophy was written —and so were many other areas of endeavor of our species—exclusively by males. After only 115 years from its creation, filmmaking is still living its childhood, not even its youth. And cinema has also been a predominantly male praxis. This patriarchal evolution of […]

UN AMOUR DE JEUNESSE / MIA HANSEN-LØVE / FRANCIA, 2011 El mundo adolescente no es precisamente “el mejor de los mundos”, concepto que remite a la teodicea de Leibniz y al que se alude en una clase de filosofía del secundario al que asiste Camille, a quien poco le importa en ese momento la metafísica […]