Writing, says Lispector, is not knowing what’s coming next. To find out, we throw another word out, as bait: which words will take the bait, if indeed any? Or will nothing follow but a void? Carlos Skliar* If it’s true that the world started with a yes, wrote […]
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Ventura Pons and Ignasi M: “Films are what directors are”
The Catalonian director took a gamble on a documentary about the true-life story and difficulties of the life of a famous gay HIV-positive museum curator. Virginia Moreno Molina The idea of the documentary “Ignasi M” emerged by chance while Ventura Pons was trying to picture a “silly” North […]
Art and aftermath of war in Colombia
“There is an aesthetic precariousness, poverty, and neglect in the open desolation where the dead have neither surnames nor temples.” Reina Magdariaga Lardue The Colombian artists Bibiana Vélez and Cristo Hoyos express in their art a reflection of the consequences of the armed conflict in their country. Starting […]
Urban dance and surfing Angola to Brazil: M. Patrocinio
Countries once forced together by colonialism and the slave trade, now find connections in cultural entrepreneurship and the Portuguese language. Small independent film-makers have a role in promoting African and Brazilian culture for their contemporary value, not as tourist clichés. Graham Douglas Mario Patrocinio and his brother Pedro’s […]
Owen Gower: Still the enemy within
The Scottish producer talks about his latest film. His first documentary film as a director is on the miners’ strikes that ravaged the country 30 years ago. Fernando Marín Gascón “We knew people who had lived through the strikes themselves, with experiences that had to be told” is […]















