Bressonian Resistance: On Valérie Massadian’s Nana Ela Bittencourt March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care Valérie Massadian’s first feature Nana (2011) revolves around three instances of death. In the first a pig is circled by a farmer, shot, then laid out and bled. “Pig,” says one small child, watching the scene. ...
“One day, the swan sang this with its wings”: An Interview with Teresa Villaverde Ela Bittencourt December 2012 Feature Articles Teresa Villaverde is one of the most important contemporary directors to have emerged from the school of new Portuguese cinema, which includes filmmakers such as João Pedro Rodrigues and Miguel Gomes. Her force...
To Accept the Unacceptable: Reflections on Three Films by Teresa Villaverde Ela Bittencourt December 2012 Feature Articles “What is poetry?” “All that exists in this world. (…) Good and bad. - from Teresa Villaverde’s Transe ”There is beauty in the force of the weak, just as there is obscenity in the force of the powerful.” - T...