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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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Familiar Yet Strange: Shorts From This Year’s Projections Showcase at the NY Film Fest

by Ela Bittencourt October 4, 2019October 4, 2019

Devoted to experimental film and video work, the annual sidebar presents a range of shorts that explore the negotiation of identity in manners both playful and stark.

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How Surrealism’s Playful Aesthetic Was Deeply Political

by Ela Bittencourt September 16, 2019December 21, 2022

The Surrealists’ insistence on irrationality was not a sport, but an attempt to engage in the political debates of their time.

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A 14-Hour Documentary on Female Filmmakers Illuminates and Frustrates

by Ela Bittencourt September 10, 2019November 4, 2019

Seeking to upend the male-dominated canon but directed by a man, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema defies some hierarchies while reinforcing others.

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The Best Experimental Shorts at the Toronto International Film Festival

by Ela Bittencourt September 5, 2019November 4, 2019

The festival’s vaunted Wavelengths section features films about different concepts of performance.

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A Stylish Crime Drama’s Moral Ambivalence

by Ela Bittencourt July 23, 2019July 23, 2019

Neither a political thriller nor entirely a noir, Benjamin Naishtat’s Rojo is an eerie film in which the stakes feel painfully high.

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Barbara Hammer: Superdyke Surveys Her Iconic Role in Queer Experimental Film

by Ela Bittencourt July 19, 2019July 19, 2019

Originally presented at UCLA’s Film & Television Archive, a film series brings rare 16mm prints by the legendary filmmaker to the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.

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Youssef Chahine, the “Last Arab Optimist”

by Ela Bittencourt July 17, 2019November 4, 2019

Hailed for his exuberance and fluid style, the Egyptian filmmaker graces big screens again at Il Cinema Ritrovato.

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Lis Rhodes’s Films Are an Active Outcry Against Exploitation

by Ela Bittencourt July 11, 2019July 10, 2019

Rhodes’s diverse collection of feminist films show an obsessive concentration on language as a system of signs that reveals but also reinforces the oppressive structures faced by the world’s most vulnerable populations.

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When Classic Hollywood Attempted to Deal with Sexual Violence

by Ela Bittencourt April 11, 2019

In a Lonely Place isn’t so much a straightforward thriller as it is a poignant psychological study of a person and a milieu, veiled as an atmospheric noir.

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A B-Movie that Inspired Generations of Filmmakers, Including the French New Wave

by Ela Bittencourt April 11, 2019April 10, 2019

A precursor and inspiration for filmmakers from the French New Wave to Arthur Penn, Gun Crazy plays in New York on April 14 and 19.

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An Uncompromising Look at Photography and Gender

by Ela Bittencourt March 29, 2019March 28, 2019

In Photography after Photography Abigail Solomon-Godeau’s overarching goal is to offer a feminist critique of the art world.

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A New Biography Paints a Colorful Portrait of Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius

by Ela Bittencourt March 19, 2019April 2, 2019

In Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus, author Fiona MacCarthy attempts to debunk the myth that the German pioneer of modernist architecture is somehow an unsexy subject for biographical study.

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