articles by Janaina Navarro
The Critic: maybe a flâneur, but not a dilettante
Berlinale Talent Press, February 11, 2012
The Critic: maybe a flâneur, but not a dilettante I see the critic as a upside down prism, that absorbs different stimuli from the world and gathers them in a unique beam put in words. As a young Visual Arts student, and in my work as a critic I try to articulate realms of knowledge seen ...
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Staring at the Road
Berlinale Talent Press, February 11, 2012
Staring at the Road Conflicts arise on and off a bus, resulting in a journey of bonding and discovery: a review of HIGHWAY from Berlinale Panorama. A road can have different meanings. For some, the road is a trip, for others, the road is part of the quotidian. What can be an obstacle on ...
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Fucking Alone
Berlinale Talent Press, February 12, 2012
Fucking Alone Malgoska Szumowska takes part in the Berlinale Panorama with ELLES, asking questions about the true nature of sexual encounters. ELLES begins with a fragment of Gaspar Noé's controversial and explicit short WE FUCK ALONE. ELLES is equally unsettling. The main protagonists o ...
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Odysseus with Woman-shaped-Tiresias in his arms
Berlinale Talent Press, February 13, 2012
Odysseus with Woman-shaped-Tiresias in his arms An abundance of classical-literature references doesn't redeem KEYHOLE's gimmicky experimentalism. Guy Maddin‘s new movie KEYHOLE is a gangster odyssey. Ulysses, the chief of the gang, is awaited by his band in an old creepy house, which is ...
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You Have to Know the Heart of Man
Berlinale Talent Press, February 14, 2012
You Have to Know the Heart of Man Werner Herzog presents his four-part TV project on death-row inmates as part of the Berlinale Special. Not only a strong commentary on capital punishment, Werner Herzog‘s Berlinale Special entry DEATH ROW is also a lesson on how to face other human being ...
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A Visa for Filmmaking
Berlinale Talent Press, February 15, 2012
A Visa for Filmmaking An interview with Lebanese filmmaker Mahmoud Hojeij, part of the Berlinale Shorts with his IMPOSSIBLE EXCHANGE. Lebanese filmmaker Mahmoud Hojeij partakes in the Berlinale Shorts programme with the film IMPOSSIBLE EXCHANGE, made from footage of an uncomfortable scen ...
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