Author Mauricio Rivera

Mauricio Rivera

Mauricio Rivera is a writer, journalist, scholar and visual artist born in Bogota, Colombia. He studied journalism in Colombia and later undertook postgraduate studies in Melbourne (where he is currently based), including a Masters degree in professional communication and a PhD in journalism and media studies.

Healing through curation: a conversation between three indigenous image curators in the Abya Yala movement

Amalia Córdova, David Hernández Palmar, Francisco Huichaqueo and Mauricio Rivera

December 2018

Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox

Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. A conversation between Amalia Córdova (writing from Piscataway territory), David Hernández Palmar (Wayuu territory) and Francisco Huichaqueo (Wallmapu territory...

The Embrace of the Serpent and the dark legacy of the rubber holocaust

Mauricio Rivera

June 2018

Feature Articles

Like Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), The Embrace of the Serpent, directed by Colombian director Ciro Guerra (2015), may at first sight be interpreted as a cinematographic adaptation of Joseph Conr...

Crossing the Pont de Varsòvia: The Critical Resilience of Pere Portabella’s Warsaw Bridge

Criminals Against Decoration: Modernism as a Heist

The New-Ark: trying to disavow anti-blackness

Claustrophobia and Intimacy in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Her Smell

What’s in a Cone? Barbara Loden’s Wanda Between Weakness and Resilience

Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea

Thresholds of Work and Non-Work in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s People on Sunday

New Dates, New British Films: The 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival

The 34th Cinema Ritrovato Has Full Resuscitation under COVID

Women at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

Lest We Forget: the 31st FID Marseille

A Vitalising Cinema in an Agitated Age: The 58th New York Film Festival

Locarno 2020: The Open Doors Experience

Your Daughters Come Back to You: The 28th Pan African Film and Arts Festival

Timeless or Timely – The Perils of Editing a Queer Film Classics Series: Word is Out by Greg Youmans; Montreal Main by Thomas Waugh and Jason Garrison; Zero Patience by Susan Knabe and Wendy Gay Pearson

Trade Follows the Film: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System by Lee Grieveson

War, Community, and the Cinema: Front Lines of Community: Hollywood Between War and Democracy by Hermann Kappelhof and Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris

The Perfect Conditional: Philippe Garrel by Michael Leonard

Creating the Appearance of Being: The Art of American Screen Acting 1960 to Today, by Dan Callahan

The Restless Spectator: Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies, by Sarah Keller

Engaged Vision: Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave, by Steven Ungar

So This is Paris

Stairways to Paradise: Youssef Chahine and Alexandria…Why?

At Home Among Strangers (Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, Nikita Mikhalkov, 1974)

German Yearnings, East and West: The Sons of Great Bear (Josef Mach, 1966)

Waiting for Rain: Oppression and Resistance in Youssef Chahine’s The Land (1970)

Of East and West and High and Low: Lemonade Joe (1964)

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov, Alla Surikova, 1987)

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Healing through curation: a conversation between three indigenous image curators in the Abya Yala movement

The Embrace of the Serpent and the dark legacy of the rubber holocaust