Embrace of the Serpent / El Abrazo de la Serpiente
The latest film of Ciro Guerra, El Abrazo de la Serpiente/Embrace of the Serpent, is a wonderful piece of cinematic art, full of mystery, beauty, and intimate c...
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The Expressiveness of Human-Computer Rotoscoping Technique
Although the rotoscoping technique was invented by the Fleischer brothers back in 1910s when animating Koko the clown for their Out of the Inkwell animated seri...
The Agency of Objects in the Work of Jan Å vankmajer
One of my favorite media arts is animation. Although in recent years I have stopped producing content in this format, the medium, its aesthetics, and its langua...
Colombian Audiovisual Memory in YouTube
Among all the metaphors that can be used to understand YouTube, I choose the one of an archive because it allows me to explore the relation between media and me...
Latin American Cities and Film Travelogues From the 20th Century
Since the 19th century travelogues have been a popular media format. First as illustrated lectures accompanied with glass-lantern slides and moving images proje...
Cinematic Language and Aural Imaginaries
Since the end of the 1980s, exploring the aural dimension of cinematic language has opened a new field of film scholarship. One of the leading figures in this a...
Melodrama, Cinema, and the Mechanization of Emotions
In order to understand the conventions of film music, either from the silent or the sound era (including the silent-to-sound transitional period of 1926-1936), ...