Happy for them. Carrie Ann Inaba sent love to ex Artem Chigvintsev after his wedding to Nikki Bella.
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Presented at Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente competition, the first feature film of Brazilian filmmaker and curator Ana Vaz portrays the battle between the urban expansion of Brasília and the misplacement of its local fauna.It reprises some of the artist’s obsessions as well as questioning the urban identity of Brazil’s capital, denouncing both its institutional role and the artificiality of its architecture. The production has been possible thanks to an Italian, French and Brazilian collaboration carried out by Fondazione In Between Art Film and Spectre Films.This dark 16 mm avant-garde documentary begins with a series of long fixed shots and pans that ses us in the twilight that haunts Brasilia, whose frenetic distinctiveness drowns us into the deep shadows of an urban setting.
Vaz refers to her feature debut as “a film that comes off the dark, a piece that thinks and trembles with the dark”. “It is Night in America” images travel through twilight, dawns and shadows, but never full sunlight.
To be more precise, Vaz explains that she employed a day-by-night shoot technique – well known in the early days of filmmaking and that reached its peak during the heyday of the Western, “Day By Night”. This technique part contributed to the film’s particular blue tones.For Vaz, this “political fable” is a kind of encounter with the Western itself, a genre that inspires her films from their very concept given Western’s frequent focus on settlement.
“Western is the genre of what happens during the process of settlement,” says Vaz. “There is also this imaginary conversation with the history of cinema, through the very materiality of the images you’ve seen,” she adds.In the film’s main plot, the parallel montage of 16 mm shots is the
.Happy for them. Carrie Ann Inaba sent love to ex Artem Chigvintsev after his wedding to Nikki Bella.
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