A new online journal from Colombia, Corónica, has posted a short interview with me on video, made by Juan Soto, called ‘9 Notes on Digital Cinema’. (In Spanish and English, with subtitles.)
[vimeo 48867239]
It accompanies my film on the students protests in Chile, ‘Three Short Films about Chile’.
http://cine.revistacoronica.com/2012/09/tres-cortos-sobre-chile-por-michael.html
which Javier Toloza writes about here (in Spanish):
‘Three Short Films About Chile‘ by Michael Chanan
BRISTOL
Friday, 24 February
St. Matthias Campus, UWE, Room A123, 5pm.
OXFORD
Saturday 10 March,
Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College, High Street, 3.30pm
as part of ‘Latin American “Third” Cinema and Its Legacies’
Arriving in Atlántida, the location for Uruguay’s documentary festival Atlantidoc, gave me a very strange sensation. A sleepy coastal town near Montevideo, I had the feeling that I’d been here before, or somewhere very much like it. Searched my memory for other seaside towns in Latin America visited over the years, but none quite fitted the bill. Later I realised. It wasn’t a place but a film I was thinking of: a Argentine documentary from a few years ago by Mariano Llinás appropriately entitled Balnearios (‘Bathing Resorts’). For the next few days I feel like Kafka’s butterfly dreaming he was a man who couldn’t decide if he was really a man dreaming he was a butterfly. Read more