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Roving reporter Manuel Bláuab gives BFJ a look at the programme for Buenos Aires InternationalIndependent Film Festival and picks his highlights.

he name is kind of long, not unlike the selection of almost four hundred lms for this year’s edition, though from now on let’s

call it BAFICI like most people do. We are talking about one of the biggest  and most important independent lm festivals

around, so there’s why we see so many people from abroad participating in the eleven days of lm festivities. This 16

edition brings a variety of lms so different from each other that they can only be together in a festival like this one where

liberty is a key criteria of the programmers.

The Wild Wide South

One of the local prides, Necrophobia in 3D, the very rst National 3D Terror movie by Daniel de la Vega, (winner of the Argentinean

Competition in Mar del Plata 2012), is one of the attractions for this genre lovers and the festival in general. We nd in the Avant

Garde and Genre Competition, the section for the new challenges and ideas for cinema also featuring Living Stars by the duet Cohn

and Duprat, which basically is about regular people, such as your dentist, dancing in his of ce to Rocky Horror’s ‘Sweet

Transvestite’ (Not exactly what happens in the lm, though that would be great).

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We all have seen Grease and danced and sung along with ‘You’re the One that I Want’ with Danny and Sandy. But, how about a new

perspective on the lm? I mean, what if someone were to re-edit the original motion picture? Well, Antoni Pinent merges Grease into

four horizontal and simultaneous segments different parts for a reduction of 20 minutes lm. I know, I know, it’s hard to imagine at

rst. Here is a sneak a peek of G/R/E/A/S/E:

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Suppose that you are having a pleasant evening at the local pub in Addis Adeba, Ethiopia and just like that, Hitler’s clone appears.

How bizarre can night get with the short- lm Chigger Ale, by Fanta Ananas? I’m looking forward to nding out in this 11 minute

Ethiopian production which will be screened in a set with the documentary The Joycean Society by the Spanish director Dora García

about a group of enthusiasts who dedicate their lives to decode the pages of Finnegan’s Wake.

 

I remember being a teenager and watching a good deal of lms per week but also TV shows, among them The Critic with Jay

Sherman, who thought that every single commercial lm stank. And maybe he had a point, the poor misunderstood guy. I also recall

the promotion of the show which said that ‘every lm critic was in deep a frustrated lmmaker‘. This might be partially true though;

this year’s BAFICI will feature a lm by the previous festival director, Herr Sergio Wolf, with The Colour Out of Space. Rejected and

unloved lmmakers: Now it’s your turn to judge!

Wait a minute. I know that one!

The festival is an all independent and beautiful thing, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the regional premiere of another TV show

turned movie loved by a whole generation– Veronica Mars. (OK, I might overreacted with the ‘loved by a whole generation‘

statement. That would explain why the three screenings haven’t sold many tickets yet.)

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What do Greenaway, Godard and Edgar Pêra have in common? 3X3D, a lm divided in three episodes in 3D directed by these

youngsters, just like New York Stories. It’s hard to comment on this one in particularly because I haven’t seen it yet there’s more to

see on the screen than to predict with words.

There are no good festivals without an interesting Restored Classics offer. BAFICI’s 2014 menu has Nosferatu, (Murnau) Big (Penny

Marshall) Shivers (David Cronenberg) and The Last Emperor in 3D (Bernardo Bertolucci).

Phew! Enough for now. The wide genre and aesthetic selection of lms in a festival is what identi es this Festival among others,

inviting a larger and eclectic public. And isn’t that the purpose of cinema?

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S H A R E O N : F A C E B O O K ( H T T P : / / W W W . F A C E B O O K . C O M / S H A R E R . P H P ?

U = H T T P : / / B E R L I N F I L M J O U R N A L . C O M / 2 0 1 4 / 0 3 / T H E -

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I N D E P E N D E N T F I L M

F E S T I V A L )

T W I T T E R ( H T T P S : / / T W I T T E R . C O M / I N T E N T / T W E E T ?

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W I L D - W I D E - R A N G E -

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C O N T E N T / U P L O A D S / 2 0 1 4 / 0 3 / T H E -

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