DIAGONALE: FESTIVAL OF AUSTRIAN FILM

By Claudia Siefen ZABBADOING! This year’s “Diagonale“, Festival of Austrian Film, located in the city of Graz, provided a few heartfelt pulsing productions of austrian filmproduction. You have been simply on the safe side not going with the flow, to find yourself in the end on the right side. And then you have been not … Continue reading

PANORAMA: VERS MADRID (SYLVAIN GEORGE) ENG

After following illegal immigrants for three years in Calais, Sylvain George’s work came to an initial praise among film critics: In fact,his diptych Qu’ils Reposent En Révolte (Des Figures De Guerre) and Les Éclats (Ma Gueule, Ma Révolte, Mon Nom), two films best understood as a single, individual work, were essential as pure depictions of the human factor that these wondering undocumented citizens represented, the whole issue of immigration put under a magnifying glass.

PANORAMA: A BLUE BIRD, DE SEBASTIAN WESMAN (SPA)

A Blue Bird (Estonia, 2012) está hecha para la contemplación, no solo de cada ángulo o rincón de esta iglesia, única testigo o acompañante de este músico, quien también va hurgando en las posibilidades de la ubicación, desde dónde el sonido pareciera hermanarse con lo que vemos, paredes, pinturas, vitrales, ventanales.