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Lourdes Portillo is a filmmaker of undoubted importance for Latin American nonfiction cinema. Her lucid filmography oscillates between documentary, experimental film and video art. Astutely inscribing herself to the genealogy of Third Cinema, she…

La película Qati qati [...] se sirve tanto del género del terror como de los recursos del relato oral. En el filme, una campesina aimara, Valentina, cuenta a su esposo Fulo la historia del qati qati, una cabeza humana voladora que se desprende del…

Historia de la venganza de un campesino indio, cuya mujer ha sido violada y asesinada por un mestizo. Su anécdota posee un alcance parabólico: el indio encarna a la clase más explotada y oprimida y el mestizo es el último eslabón en la cadena de…

Like the elderly couple in Ozu’s wonderful Tokyo Story (1953), the main characters of Wiñaypacha carry upon their bent backs the sadness of being forgotten by their son. Nonetheless, they do not invest in anger nor build up blame. They spend their…

Like the elderly couple in Ozu’s wonderful Tokyo Story (1953), the main characters of Wiñaypacha carry upon their bent backs the sadness of being forgotten by their son. Nonetheless, they do not invest in anger nor build up blame. They spend their…

Like the elderly couple in Ozu’s wonderful Tokyo Story (1953), the main characters of Wiñaypacha carry upon their bent backs the sadness of being forgotten by their son. Nonetheless, they do not invest in anger nor build up blame. They spend their…
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