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Thematization of violence
People always die. Especially on screen. The cinema-deceased transform
according to genre; their death is business and as undetached from patriarchy
as life. So the advice from writer Langston Hughes comes at just the right
time: “Birthing is hard, and dying is mean – so get yourself a little loving in
between.” - For everyone, who loves grand and small cinema. (Theresa
George)
“The duel as an archetypal cinematic arrangement: shot, countershot, extended time, confrontation, violence, men. Everything is different in PISTOLERAS. Precisely placed symbols - a score that sounds like a spaghetti Western, a costume of jeans and a cowboy hat - evoke an entire cinematic tradition by using minimal means, only to immediately toss it all overboard.” (Elena Meilicke)
… >>>Out of 300 episodes of the German TV-series “Ein Fall für zwei (A Case for two)“, the short film BEAUTIFUL DEAD WOMAN re-arranges female death stagings. The result is a short found footage montage about the obsession with and fetishization of female murder victims, about the staging of female passivity and about a culture of romanticized femicide.
… >>>This film is a tour of the funeral home in a small Cuban town led by Maurilio and Fidela, driver and assistant on duty, who have been preparing the corpses for 17 years in the same space where they live.
… >>>Between birth and death is the power to love and live. Political rules, religious orders, social norms and cultural taboos control who we love and how we love. The right to love is controlled and regulated by how we live. But the erotic has the power to emancipate. With spoken word and archive sources, love is unboxed from categories in queer expression and a celebration of eros as the power to change our attitudes to life and to allow others to live their lives without judgment or prejudice.
… >>>Gil works in construction, goes to his mother’s bar and has love dates with Kátia. On a day like so many others, Gil is disappearing.
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