Author Silvia Spitta & Gerd Gemünden

Silvia Spitta & Gerd Gemünden

Silvia Spitta is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College and Robert E. Maxwell 1923 Professor of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America and the award winning Misplaced Objects: Collections and Recollections in Europe and America. Gerd Gemünden, author and editor of 11 books, is the Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. His most current projects are a short monograph on Kleber Mendonça Filhos’ Neighboring Sounds and a longer study on realism and the supernatural in contemporary Latin American cinema.

“I Did Not Want to Make a Film About Victims”: An Interview with Lola Arias

Silvia Spitta & Gerd Gemünden

May 2024

Interviews

“Yo no quería hacer una pelicula sobre víctimas” – with these words director Lola Arias described to us her approach to making a film about a dozen former inmates of various Buenos Aires women prisons. Reas, wh...

“I Needed to See Light”: An Interview with Tatiana Huezo

Silvia Spitta & Gerd Gemünden

May 2023

Interviews

“Quería ver luz” – these are the words director Tatiana Huezo used to describe to us the impetus behind El Eco (The Echo), her latest documentary, which premiered in February at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival. T...