Images and Scarecrows
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another
Weiwei
21.10.2025
Becoming an image. Becoming a facade standing at the center of a landscape. Although it might be nothing at all, the ambiguous situation and shape allow them to briefly become other, sufficiently concrete things.
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Rivette: Sketches of WoundsSpace Rabbit10.10.2025It is for failure that we begin to work. It is for the dead that we begin to write, that we begin to film. Failure shatters appearance, and from that point on everything splits into multiplicity. -
Magalhães Notes: Echoes of the PhilippinesCurrent8918.6.2025These places sketched by Diaz are here, without exception, to confirm and survey a form of time that has been conceived there: no matter how minute the movement, there is always a dynamic within it. -
Memories of a Spy ThrillerKleber Mendonça Filho’s O Agente SecretoTWY9.6.2025The first tactic of Mendonça Filho: to let unknown bodies run wild, proliferate. -
A Door That Opens from the InsideLaura Citarella on El Pampero CineThe Dissidents Editors26.4.2025It’s very clear for me that producing is part of directing, and directing is part of producing: I’m working with ideas; I already know the places where I’m going to shoot; I know already the people that I’m going to work with. -
Towards the Ruins of OrderBringing Up Baby as Saboteur of RepresentationsSharon13.10.2024It concerns not just destroying order, but how to outline the problem with the premise of "destroying order" every time. -
The Same and the DifferentJonás Trueba’s VolveréisTWY20.7.2024Here, a second theory surfaces, a fission reaction to the heroine’s concern: can real life exist in a film?
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