Film is now not only an intimate part of the spectacle, but intimate to us; the forms of subjectivity it rolls in front of our eyes quickly unspool behind them, inside us, becoming part of our own subjectivity.
Data - the android aboard the Starship Enterprise - already was dealing with the same problems that generative AI such as ChatGPT and other AI systems are facing nowadays. This piece connects the wider debate in information technology with the moral dilemma faced by Data in one of the episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
"They don't wear a black-tie" (Eles não usam black-tie) was directed by Leon Hirszman. This film won awards at several international film festivals, most notably at the Venice Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury Prize. In November 2015, the film was featured on the Brazilian Association of Film Critics' list as one of the 100 best Brazilian films of all time.
I’m old enough to remember lots of people and mainstream media outlets confidently predicting the imminent mass extinction of movie theaters. This was not so long after the VHS format had decisively triumphed over its rival Beta format in the great VCR war that occurred way back when in another century. But this did not come to pass, as movie theaters were still rather resilient...
Poetry and cinema, it would seem, don’t really have anything to do with each other. Poetry, after all, consists of language while cinema lives off of images...
In a cooperation project (GG19) from 2007, various directors produced a series of films corresponding to the first 19 articles of the German Constitution. Unsurprisingly, Savaş Ceviz dedicated his short film to Article 2: Freedom.