CARTOON Movie audiences show their enthusiasm for 3D technologies
♦ Introduction
This blog is a place for all contributors of Nisimazine to continue to write, photograph, make video and discuss cinema together after the workshops. An extension of the magazine, this is a free space to keep sharing new insights and experiences through reviews, essays, quotes, interviews and festival reports. You can join any conversation by posting comments. So…, let’s go!
Wednesday 10 March 2010The 3D revolution, version 3.0?
By Jude Lister (UK), 10 March | Free section |Translations: [en]
Monday 8 March 2010Ari Folman, Sylvain Chomet and Patrice Leconte present new animated projects at CARTOON Movie 2010
By Jude Lister (UK), 8 March | Free section |Translations: [en]
Thursday 25 February 2010this to me is sophistication
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 25 February | Free section |Translations: [en]
"You ought to keep you awake"
"People have seen everything" is a quote from Nicolas Provost that sticks out of all the notes I took during our hour-long interview at the Haunch of Venison gallery in Berlin, where selected works of the Belgian video artist where shown while his latest short film Long live the new flesh competed in the Berlinale; especially because it is the antipode of what I felt during my first encounter with one of his films, and I warmly invite you to meet the work of an alchemist that knows how to kidnap your senses by aiming straight to the heart.
Wednesday 24 February 2010Interview: Lizette Gram Mygind on Danish cinephilia
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 24 February | Free section |Translations: [en]
Danish films always had a strong presence in the festival circuit, but this year the Danes cannot be more proud of their seven entries, that were selected in various strands at the Berlinale. But where have all those Dogma rules gone? How long will the television dictatorship rule? Why have the domestic box office suffered, and in which ways have they managed to nurture emerging talent?
Festival Manager of the Danish Film Institute, Lizette Gram Mygind is a woman with a genuine positive (…)
Festival Manager of the Danish Film Institute, Lizette Gram Mygind is a woman with a genuine positive (…)
Thursday 18 February 2010Sight and Sound editor-in-chief, Nick James
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 18 February | Free section |Translations: [en]
Sight and Sound editor-in-chief, Nick James, participating in a Talent Campus panel on film criticism.
Nicolas Provost
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 18 February | Free section |Translations: [en]
Being Nicolas Provost
All good with Berlinale, but...
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 18 February | Mas y Mas |Translations: [en]
All good with the Berlinale, but someone has to take care of that snow…
Talent Campus #8: Notes on Claire Denis
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 18 February | Free section |Translations: [en]
Whenever I’ve been to a Claire Denis talk, something mysterious happens: it is absolutely impossible not to pay attention. Her scattered words remind me of laundry hung out to dry on a line. As seen in the military milieu of Beau Travail, each piece of clothing is completely autonomous, with its own gravity, and enfolding its own full-blown meaning. Loosely hanging from the rope of language, her words are almost interchangeable. As though you could move the ‘pieces’ of the puzzle around, (…)
Tuesday 16 February 2010Interview w/ Ruben Östlund
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 16 February | Free section |Translations: [en]
The Sky (or Heaven) over Berlinale
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 16 February | Free section |Translations: [en]
Berlin’s coldest month never was an obstacle for the hundreds of people embracing what has become the coolest international festival in Europe. Coolest in temperature but also in character, this city transforms into a playground for film lovers that congregate around Potsdamer Platz like bees in honey. And there is a certain charm, or should I call it euphoria, to be around like-minded people who fly from all over the world to celebrate its 60th birthday. Or at least that is a good excuse. (…)
Monday 15 February 2010Interview; Anna Gudkova
By Adrien Lenoir (France), 15 February | Mas y Mas |Translations: [en]
Talent campuses do not only exist in Berlin or Sarajevo. The phenomenon is strong enough to inspire new projects, new platforms for future filmmakers and film lovers. The role these platforms can take is all the more important in places like Russia where expressing yourself in total independence and freedom may not be as easy as in the rest of Europe. This urge and this desire are beautifully expressed by Anna Gudkova, who is the program director of the Russian International education (…)
From Buenos Aires to Guadalajara: Two Latin American Talent Campus experiences
By Mary Carmen Molina (Bolivia), 15 February | Mas y Mas |Translations: [en]
When Denisse Arancibia (photo) applied for this year Belinale Talent Campus, she thought it could be her first opportunity to express her point of view outside Bolivia. The day Denisse knew her short film project Pis have been selected for the first round of the Berlinale Today Award 2011 competition, she knew the opportunity had become a reality.
The question: Do Latin American young filmmakers always have to take a transatlantic flight to jump into a Talent Campus? The answer was a strong (…)
The question: Do Latin American young filmmakers always have to take a transatlantic flight to jump into a Talent Campus? The answer was a strong (…)
Sunday 14 February 2010it feels like running.
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 14 February | Free section |Translations: [en]
It’s my third breakfast (the Holiday Inn serves it until 12, definitely to our advantage) in Berlin and it feels it’s been a week already.
A yellow accreditation gets you quite far, and we’re enjoying it to the fullest: spontaneous film screenings, cuts in line, chats with Variety, forgetting to ask for who this interview is, our jury debates, our jury at night, NOT getting tickets for friends… What the OFAJ-DFJW, our organisers, have put up for us here is simply amazing.
To be in a (…)
A yellow accreditation gets you quite far, and we’re enjoying it to the fullest: spontaneous film screenings, cuts in line, chats with Variety, forgetting to ask for who this interview is, our jury debates, our jury at night, NOT getting tickets for friends… What the OFAJ-DFJW, our organisers, have put up for us here is simply amazing.
To be in a (…)
Saturday 13 February 2010Transmitting live from poor but sexy.
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 13 February | Free section |Translations: [en]
Thursday 11 February 2010Elephant in the Middle of the Room: Orphan Cinema in Peru
By Juan Daniel (Peru), 11 February | Free section |Translations: [en]
I’m not going to talk about La teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow) nor a Peruvian film industry, which by the way doesn’t exist. There’s money involved, as filmmakers and, of course, films, but none of these belong to or are part of us. We don’t have an identity as we don’t have a home nor fathers. The only thing that unites some of us is being film industry rejects that haven’t given up the biological need of making films.
After Claudia Llosa’s over valuated 2009 Berlinale victory, many (…)
After Claudia Llosa’s over valuated 2009 Berlinale victory, many (…)
Tuesday 9 February 2010Harmony Korine and Trash Humpers
By Juan Daniel (Peru), 9 February | Free section |Translations: [en]
Interview by Juan Daniel with Harmony Korine during the 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam, where his film ’Trash Humpers’ was shown.
Tuesday 2 February 2010Interview João Cândido Zacharias: Peça Piloto
By Adrien Lenoir (France), 2 February | Mas y Mas |Translations: [en]
João Cândido Zacharias is one of the directors of the Brazilian TV series Peça Piloto, along with Alice Gomes, Patrícia Fróes, Gustavo Scofano and Bruna Benvegnu. The episodes they made show us young Brazilian fashion designers in their everyday lives and creating processes. The series has style and shows how thin the frontier can be between a TV documentary and a most captivating piece of short film.
Can you tell us how Peça Piloto was created? We all knew each other before. Gustavo, Patricia, (…)
Can you tell us how Peça Piloto was created? We all knew each other before. Gustavo, Patricia, (…)
Writing the future: How American tv series re-shape reality
By Sebastiano Pucciarelli (Italy), 2 February | Mas y Mas |Translations: [en]
Evidence no.1 A young, non-white and unknown presidential candidate talking of “hope and unity” and winning the election: Obama’s campaign in 2008? No, The West Wing, 2005, NBC.
Evidence no.2 A wife publicly standing by her famous husband after he admits he’s involved in a sex scandal, trying to save her family and life from gossip and humiliation: Hillary Clinton after Bill confessed his “improper physical relationship" with Monica Lewinsky? New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s wife after he (…)
Evidence no.2 A wife publicly standing by her famous husband after he admits he’s involved in a sex scandal, trying to save her family and life from gossip and humiliation: Hillary Clinton after Bill confessed his “improper physical relationship" with Monica Lewinsky? New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s wife after he (…)
Friday 29 January 2010Juan Daniel at IFFR
By Juan Daniel (Peru), 29 January | Free section |Translations: [en]
Juan Daniel, videoblogger of the Nisimazine Lima 2009 workshop, is continuing his adventures at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, not only with more vlogs, but also to present his work in progress, a feature film, at the CineMart. This is his first vlog in Rotterdam. More to follow..
IFFR 2010: Day 1 from Hard//Hoofd on Vimeo.
Thursday 8 October 2009Editorial Nisimazine Rio #7
By Sabrina Fidalgo (Brazil), 8 October 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en] [pt]
The 2009 Festival do Rio was not just a film festival in the strict sense of the word. In addition to the crowded screenings, the competitive and the non-competitive, the frenzy around a particular film, and interviews with directors, producers, actors and sales agents who came from around the world, the festival reached its 11th edition by leaving another somewhat atypical trademark, but one of great importance: the celebration of life.
So it was, for example, every night at the door of (…)
So it was, for example, every night at the door of (…)
Tuesday 6 October 2009Editorial Nisimazine Rio #6
By Zsuzsanna Kiràly (Austria), 6 October 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en] [pt]
Networking in film festivals takes place at the pavilion of the film market, at the premieres, at parties and in the queue for buying a snack. As every festival-goer has a special purpose for attending, the conversations are not only but mostly concentrated on exchanging ideas and information. During this exchange, new ideas are generated, deals made, friendships formed and cultivated. People will also be talking about the latest films seen and give an opinion on them, being reminded every (…)
Sunday 4 October 2009Editorial Nisimazine Rio #5
By Dominika Uhrikova (Slovakia), 4 October 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en] [pt]
I spent more than three quarters of an hour in the cab. While I was getting to Botafogo, trying to decipher what the driver was saying in Portuguese about his eleven-year-old filhinha Beatris and shutting my eyes whenever he drove through red lights at 50 mph, I kept asking myself why on earth I had decided, on my first stay in Rio, to see Soul at Peace (Pokoj v duši), a feature made by my compatriot and premiered earlier this year, instead of some Brazilian flick that might never be shown (…)
Friday 2 October 2009Editorial Nisimazine Rio #4
By Mary Carmen Molina (Bolivia), 2 October 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en] [pt]
When it comes to dealing with issues of sexual identity, cinema seems to be one of the spaces in which these identities are constructed with more intensity. Among the sections of the Festival do Rio, I found Gay World, an eclectic gathering of 12 feature films and documentaries from all around the globe.
What do these 12 productions really have in common? At first glance, the answer seems natural: they have gay themes. However, today the question is tricky and a natural response is, (…)
What do these 12 productions really have in common? At first glance, the answer seems natural: they have gay themes. However, today the question is tricky and a natural response is, (…)
Wednesday 30 September 2009Editorial Nisimazine Rio #3
By Pierre–Anthony Canovas (France), 30 September 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en] [pt]
Headed by a true Francophile, Ilda Santiago, the festival has always been keen on French cinema. This year is no exception; a very special programme has been put together as part of the so-called “French Year in Brazil”, a cultural season which is celebrating French arts throughout the country. Two of the most emblematic women of French cinema are present in Rio. I would like to dedicate this editorial to them - as much as a film buff as a journalist.
Obviously I am referring to the director (…)
Obviously I am referring to the director (…)
Monday 28 September 2009Editorial Nisimazine Rio #2
By Jorge Robinet (Peru), 28 September 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en] [pt]
With more than 300 movies shown from around the world, the guest list of the Rio Film Festival is pretty international. You can have breakfast with a young director from Japan, and in the night party with an Argentinean actor. One of the ideas of this festival and of film festivals in general is to allow people to meet and discover other cultures, on many levels. But is this really happening here in Rio?
During the opening party last Thursday the different delegations pretty much stuck (…)
During the opening party last Thursday the different delegations pretty much stuck (…)
Saturday 26 September 2009Editorial Nisimazine Rio #1
By Laslo Rojas (Peru), 26 September 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Welcome to the 2009 Rio Film Festival, and the very first Nisimazine to be published in Brazil. Our team, as part of NISI MASA, the European Network of Young Cinema, has diversity of origin as a trademark, with journalists coming all the way from Europe and also from nearby Latin America countries, like myself. Our magazine - distributed for free every other day to festival audiences and available here on www.nisimazine.eu - will focus mainly on work from young and talented new filmmakers. (…)
Tuesday 11 August 2009Editorial Nisimazine Lima #1
By Donal Foreman (Ireland), 11 August 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Writing about a film festival that has only just begun takes some imagination. A festival programme is a very different entity from the festival itself, and sometimes what sounds like an exciting line-up on paper can fail to live up to its promise in reality. On the other hand, sometimes a festival that doesn’t grab you on the page becomes an unforgettable experience as it unfolds, due to the presentation of unexpected gems and, also, the warmth, atmosphere and dialogue created by the (…)
Thursday 21 May 2009Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2009 #8
By Bruno Carmelo (Brazil), 21 May 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Why do people make films?
The press conference for Lars von Trier’s Antichrist started with a surprising question from a journalist of The Daily Mail: “Could you justify doing this film?” After some stuttering from the director, the journalist insisted that he had to justify his work, since being selected in a renowned festival implied such a responsibility.
The tone of the question was pretty shocking (it was clear that the journalist had not liked the film at all), but the most interesting (…)
The press conference for Lars von Trier’s Antichrist started with a surprising question from a journalist of The Daily Mail: “Could you justify doing this film?” After some stuttering from the director, the journalist insisted that he had to justify his work, since being selected in a renowned festival implied such a responsibility.
The tone of the question was pretty shocking (it was clear that the journalist had not liked the film at all), but the most interesting (…)
Wednesday 20 May 2009Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2009 #7
By Andrea Franco (Spain), 20 May 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Bazin used to say that the film frame is an open window onto the world. The Cannes Film Festival chose for this year’s poster a still from Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura, which is actually a good example of that Bazinian bon mot. Here, we find that window within the frame symbolizing the gate to the cinema.
And what we ask ourselves when we see this image on every corner is: What is there beyond that window? What is she going towards? What mysteries lie behind that light? I can’t stop (…)
And what we ask ourselves when we see this image on every corner is: What is there beyond that window? What is she going towards? What mysteries lie behind that light? I can’t stop (…)
Tuesday 19 May 2009Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2009 #6
By Bruno Carmelo (Brazil), 19 May 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Jane Campion’s film? It’s “The Piano without sex”. The violence in Mendoza’s Kinatay? “Good luck for those who intend to have barbecue later”. As for the Asian films on vampires, they are “total freak products, but with style”. And the great amount of political content makes Cannes the “UN of cinema”.
In our office, we get new newspapers and magazines every day. As the profession demands, we sometimes have to give up screenings to focus on writing; and the only opinions we have for many titles are (…)
In our office, we get new newspapers and magazines every day. As the profession demands, we sometimes have to give up screenings to focus on writing; and the only opinions we have for many titles are (…)
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