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      Maria Giovanna Vagenas
      May 2008
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      Arindam Sen
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      Maria Giovanna Vagenas
      January 2023
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Author Maria Giovanna Vagenas

Maria Giovanna Vagenas

Maria Giovanna Vagenas is a curator and film critic based in Paris.

Afterwater: A Conversation with Dane Komljen

Maria Giovanna Vagenas
March 2023
Interviews
Afterwater, conceived, directed and edited by Dane Komljen, is both as limpid as the water of the lakes that appear in it, and as complex as their, often, unfathomable depths. With an inventive, sensitive appro...

Piaffe: Interview with Ann Oren

Maria Giovanna Vagenas
January 2023
Interviews
Piaffe, Ann Oren's astonishing first feature film presented in competition at Locarno Film Festival 2022, bestows us with that same enchantment that early cinema viewers must have experienced going to the movie...

Love Dog: Conversation with Bianca Lucas

Maria Giovanna Vagenas
October 2022
Interviews
Intimate, sensitive and poetic, Love Dog, Bianca Lucas' surprising first feature film, shot in Natchez, Mississippi, portrays John, a young man mourning the sudden loss of his partner; a personal grief meaningf...

The Plains: Conversation with David Easteal

Maria Giovanna Vagenas
July 2022
Interviews
In The Plains, David Easteal’s astonishing feature debut, we are invited to virtually take a place in the back seat of the car of the protagonist, a middle-aged lawyer named Andrew Rakowski, a real-life person,...

Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Rewriting the Rules of the Game

Maria Giovanna Vagenas
February 2022
Festival Reports
Inventive and sassy – one of the best in a long time – 2021's TIFF poster featuring Mrs. Tependris in her pink overall, kicking off the event with a clapperboard, perfectly evoked the spirit of this 62nd editio...

Towards New Horizons: The 74th Locarno Film Festival

Maria Giovanna Vagenas
October 2021
Festival Reports
This summer the Locarno Film Festival and its Piazza Grande finally got their colours back. The giant screen in the piazza lit up again and the public flocked enthusiastically to its legendary screenings under ...

Rediscovering the Forgotten Gems of a Decade: Austrian Auteurs of the 1970s at the Viennale

Maria Giovanna Vagenas
May 2021
Festival Reports
The 2020 Viennale was an extraordinary and memorable event. Carried by the courage, conviction and tenacity of its director Eva Sangiorgi and her team, the festival was held in cinemas throughout the city of Vi...

Locarno 2020: The Open Doors Experience

Maria Giovanna Vagenas
October 2020
Festival Reports
Because of COVID-19, the structure of the 74th Locarno Film Festival was rethought. Under the motto “For the future of films” and opting for a hybrid form, Lily Hinstin and her team proposed a limited number of...

Back to Basics: The New Spirit of Cinéma du Réel

Maria Giovanna Vagenas
July 2019
Festival Reports
In Paris, during the grey and wintry month of March, dazzling colours and geometric patterns on the famous glass and steel façade of the Centre Pompidou announced the Vasarely exhibition on the building’s top f...

The Frame as a Border: Defining Cinema’s Political Territories at the 56th Viennale

Maria Giovanna Vagenas
December 2018
Festival Reports
In mid-October, slender, elegant pink flamingos appeared on the walls of buildings in the monumental and austere centre of the Austrian capital, announcing the imminent opening of one of the city's most importa...

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