Kênia Freitas holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her current research focuses on critical Afrofuturism and Afrofabulation in contemporary Black Brazilian cinema. She is part of the critics’ circle Elviras - Women Film Critics Collective. She is a programmer for an jury on film festivals and writes film criticism for the website Multiplot.
Conjurações audiovisuais nos filmes de Castiel Vitorino brasileiro
Em Uma noite sem lua (Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, 2020) uma voz nos pergunta: “e se eu abandonasse todas vocês?”.
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In 1974, Sérgio Ricardo’s A Noite do Espantalho, shot entirely in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, was shown at the New York Film Festival. It was not until forty five years later, when Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Bacurau came to the New York Film Festival in 2019, that Ricardo returned to New York City, this time through song.
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This past September, the staff of Limite had the opportunity to conduct an interview with the Workers of the Cinemateca Brasileira (Trabalhadores da Cinemateca Brasileira) , the collective representing the archivists and staff of Brazil’s largest film archive, who have been fighting for nearly an entire year for the survival of this vital institution.
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The following interview took place with archivist Hernani Heffner on July 4th, 2020. Heffner has been working at Rio de Janeiro’s historic Cinemateca do MAM since 1996 and is one of Brazil’s most important film archivists.
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