Here’s a piece I’ve written on the Israeli documentarist for Sight & Sound: Variety calls him a “gadfly documaker” and Cineaste quotes his own self-evaluation: “If some [filmmakers] see themselves as a fly on the wall, I see myself as a fly … Continue reading
Here’s my obituary for Eduardo Coutinho, (from the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies) Chanan on Countinho
In the world of film studies, Germany is a country not much associated with the investigation of Latin American cinema, but here we were, gathering in the small university town of Tübingen for a Spanish-speaking symposium on ‘Encuadrando La Dictadura … Continue reading
Poetic injustice. The terrible irony of it. On the same day, the news that the US actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has died from a heroine overdose, and the veteran Brazilian filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho, has been stabbed to death by his … Continue reading
The proper title of Havana’s annual film festival, founded in 1979, is the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema – Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. The words mark the Festival’s identification with a movement that was born in the 1960s, in … Continue reading
A forgotten documentary about Lockerbie On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing, Channel 4 News has broadcast a very interesting report claiming that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi wasn’t the Lockerbie bomber, and Libya wasn’t the country responsible, but … Continue reading
News of upcoming screenings and other information can be found here. View it online here: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/76406932#[/vimeo]
Saturday 23rd November, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (advance registration required). http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/events/chile-on-film Includes the first screening of my new video, ‘Chile: Divided Generations’ – a study of the politics of memory in Chile, extracted from a longer … Continue reading
Here’s a teaser for Interrupted Memory : [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/74300839#[/vimeo]
Interrupted Memory is the title of the film I’ve been shooting over the last three months in Argentina and Chile, a documentary about memory and politics which follows the course of people in the act of remembering in front of the … Continue reading