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Ghostlight 2024
I don't have enough for a review, but I did wanted to post a couple of my thoughts:
-It's interesting how men can only express themselves and be vulnerable in spaces where masculinities and heterosexuality are more flexible.
-I often search in film, literature and music for meaning and explanations about my own life, it's a way to understand and put into words and more concrete feelings my own experiences. This film is about that, and I appreciate that, so…Translated from by -
This Closeness 2023
I really enjoyed the uncomfortableness of this. The small apartment with thin walls and the long scenes, filled with awkwardness and often so much conflict that conversations hit a wall between the characters, makes the film a claustrophobic nightmare. Throughout, you just want to get out of that apartment, but when you finally do, when Tessa does, an incomprehensible magnet pulls you right back in.
Very obviously, it quickly made me think of the houseguest figure in Amparo Dávila’s short…
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Patrol 2023
Hace falta mencionar que uno de los principales drivers de la deforestación en Centroamérica son las organizaciones de narcotráfico que utilizan la actividad ganadera para legitimar capitales y que, aprovechándose de que son territorios indígenas y zonas protegidas, utilizan a los locales para llevar a cabo sus actividades ilegales.
Además, esta narco-degradación es solo otra consecuencia de la criminalización de las drogas y de las fallidas estrategias para tratar de combatir al narcotráfico:
...because US led interdiction efforts influence the…
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Crimes of the Future 2022
For her, the body was not empty of meaning.
There is definitively something more elaborate to be said about this film, but my immediate thoughts go to Maggie Nelson’s “The Argonauts” (in which she is citing Roland Barthes):
Just as the Argo’s parts may be replaced over time but the boat is still called the Argo, whenever the lover utters the phrase “I love you”, its meaning must be renewed by each use, as “the very task of love and…
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