The Cinema of Now - Signs of Life: A Letter from Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2020.172883

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Cinema, Covid-19, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Abstract

A kind of diary of quarantine that transforms itself into a science fiction, in which the future of cinema after the Covid-19 pandemic is imagined by the movie director Apichatpong Weerasethakul in a fabular, fantastic way in this somewhat time travel to early cinema.

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  • Alexandre Wahrhaftig, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil

    Alexandre Wahrhaftig é doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Meios e Processos Audiovisuais, na Universidade de São Paulo (PPGMPA-USP). Atualmente, pesquisa o cinema brasileiro dos anos da ditadura civil-militar. Formou-se em Audiovisual pela USP, em 2011, com monografia sobre Apichatpong Weerasethaku e concluiu mestrado no PPGMPA-USP, em 2015, com dissertação sobre Cópia fiel, de Abbas Kiarostami. Diretor, fotógrafo e montador, codirigiu os curtas-metragens Salomão (2013), E (2014) e O Castelo (2015), e montou o documentário Diz a ela que me viu chorar (de Maíra Bühler, 2019).

  • Eduardo Chatagnier, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil

    Eduardo Chatagnier é mestrando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Meios e Processos Audiovisuais, na Universidade de São Paulo (PPGMPA-USP). Atualmente, pesquisa o cinema de Apichatpong Weerasethaku e sua relação com as estruturas narrativas orais e implicações temporais. Formou-se em Audiovisual pela USP, em 2011, com monografia sobre os processos criativos de Mike Leigh e John Cassavetes. Montador, diretor, roteirista e produtor, montou diversos longas-metragens, entre eles Joaquim (Marcelo Gomes, 2017) e Casa (Letícia Simões, 2019); dirigiu os curtas-metragens Copan (2007) e Café (2010), e codirigiu a série Cidade no Brasil (2018).

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Published

2020-12-31

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Vol. 18 No. 40 (2020)

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Copyright (c) 2020 Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Alexandre Wahrhaftig, Eduardo Chatagnier

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Weerasethakul, A. (2020). The Cinema of Now - Signs of Life: A Letter from Apichatpong Weerasethakul (A. Wahrhaftig & E. Chatagnier , Trans.). ARS, 18(40), 585-594. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2020.172883

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