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 !
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France),
25 February 2010
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"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.
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece),
24 February 2010
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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 (…)
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece),
18 February 2010
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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, (…)
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece),
16 February 2010
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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. (…)
By Adrien Lenoir (France),
15 February 2010
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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 (…)
By Mary Carmen Molina (Bolivia),
15 February 2010
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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 (…)
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France),
14 February 2010
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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 (…)
By Juan Daniel (Peru),
11 February 2010
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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 (…)
By Adrien Lenoir (France),
2 February 2010
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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, (…)
By Sebastiano Pucciarelli (Italy),
2 February 2010
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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 (…)
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