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PREMIOS DEL JURADO DE LA COMPETENCIA DEL FICUNAM COMENTARIO GENERAL Encontrar una gama tan amplia de formas cinematográficas, que van desde la ficción hasta el documental, del ensayo al collage, de la animación al found footage, ha sido una experiencia fascinante y beneficiosa. La selección realizada por los programadores para la Competencia Internacional del FICUNAM […]

AQUEL CUYO ROSTRO NO IRRADIE LUZ, ANDRES BUSSMANN, MÉXICO-CANÁDA, 2011 By  Roger Koza Jean-Luc Godard once said that if the two members of a couple didn’t enjoy the same films, it was likely their love tie wouldn’t last in the long term. Bussmann is the wife of Nicolás Pereda, also a filmmaker, and by watching […]

Fotos: Los Buñuelos y Jorge Ríos (fotógrafo oficial del blog)

YATASTO, HERMES PARALLUELO, ARGENTINA, 2011 El plano inicial de Yatasto es la aparición de un mundo. La oscuridad prevalece por unos segundos hasta que paulatinamente el fuego que calienta el mate matutino va imponiéndose. Ricardito y sus compadres han madrugado. Empieza un día entre otros, y los protagonistas, más que ponerse los guardapolvos para ir a estudiar, […]

By Roger Koza TERRITOIRE PERDU, PIERRE-IVES VANDEWEERD, FRANCIA-BÉLGICA, 2011 Written History began with Herodotus and ever since those times most of its narratives are related to war. Likely, most of us now next to nothing about the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and its 1976 independence; unless we are professionally following on the steps of the […]

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 […]