Raquel Schefer

The concept of the Third-World served from the 1960s onwards – beyond the euphemistic and conservative boundaries of contemporary geography – to establish a unity of a libertarian and idealist nature. The processes of decolonization, social awareness and political struggle unleashed across the globe throughout this period are not exhausted in themselves: they are part […]

Deep Sleep (2014) by Basma Alsharif (Courtesy of the artist and of Imane Farès Gallery) Residing at a crossroads between political and experimental film, Basma Alsharif’s work allows to examine the historico-ideological separation of those categories. Through a multiplicity of approaches, which include storytelling, self-fiction and visual archeology, Alsharif explores the history of Palestine, stories […]

Un sentir es el del sintiente, pero otro es el del sentidor. João Guimarães Rosa, Grande Sertão: Veredas1 Cincelado a lo largo de una docena de cortos y mediometrajes, el cine de Ana Vaz combina la experimentación formal —un lenguaje singular, esculpido al margen del canon y en diálogo constante con las formas visuales de los modernismos— con una reflexión acerca de […]