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Ela Bittencourt

Ela Bittencourt is a critic and cultural journalist, currently based in São Paulo. She writes on art, film and literature, often in the context of social issues and politics.

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Hannah Wilke’s and Eva Hesse’s Irreverent Experiments in Abstraction

by Ela Bittencourt June 1, 2021June 4, 2021

Erotic Abstraction revels in the subversive absurdity shared by both artists.

Posted inFilm

The Cinematic Gems of the Czechoslovak New Wave

by Ela Bittencourt May 10, 2021September 7, 2022

These classics were produced during Czechoslovakia’s brief political thaw in the 1960s.

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The Salacious and Scholarly Poems of Yusef Komunyakaa

by Ela Bittencourt April 17, 2021April 16, 2021

The poet suggests his art’s highest calling isn’t truth-telling but stirring our empathic imagination.

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A Mesmerizing Yet Frustrating Portrayal of Film Industry Exploitation

by Ela Bittencourt April 1, 2021April 1, 2021

In its desire to avoid cliches, Nina Wu skips over some of the more complex fallout of sexual trauma.

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Lush Yet Crisp: Beatriz Milhazes’s Lively Abstractions

by Ela Bittencourt January 29, 2021February 8, 2021

Avenida Paulista, Milhazes’s largest survey to date, offers an engrossing overview of how the artist cross-pollinates painting and printmaking.

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A Virtual Sundance Brings Movies About Isolation and Mediated Realities

by Ela Bittencourt January 22, 2021October 25, 2021

The 2021 edition of the important film festival is open to viewers around the country.

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The Nostalgia of a Movie Theater’s Final Days

by Ela Bittencourt December 16, 2020December 15, 2020

Tsai Ming-liang’s newly restored film Goodbye, Dragon Inn flips the notion of moviegoing as a sanctified experience.

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Winds of Change at the São Paulo Biennial’s Introductory Show

by Ela Bittencourt December 10, 2020December 10, 2020

Emphasizing obscured histories, Vento inspires hope that the biennial programs to come will be potent enough to raise some dust in Niemeyer’s drafty halls.

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At New Directors/New Films, Stories About People Struggling to Heal

by Ela Bittencourt December 9, 2020December 10, 2020

This year’s online edition of the venerable festival features movies about mourning rituals, reenactments of family history, cult survivors, and more.

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A Film Unravels a Cover-up in the Aftermath of a Bucharest Nightclub Fire

by Ela Bittencourt November 20, 2020December 10, 2020

Director Alexander Nanau tells Hyperallergic how he got such incredible access to journalists and government officials for Collective.

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Lucia Nogueira’s Sensuous, Smoky Visions of Hell

by Ela Bittencourt November 17, 2020November 19, 2020

Featuring a stunning series of watercolors based on Dante’s Inferno, Nogueira’s latest exhibition sheds new light on her gift for haunting evocations of the female body.

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What Not to Miss at the 2020 New York Film Festival

by Ela Bittencourt September 21, 2020November 5, 2020

Get your popcorn ready. This year’s program includes highlights like Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films, ruminative queer romances, and incisive documentaries about US politics and Helen Keller’s activism.

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