The hypothesis of the hidden painting by Humphreys, Derek

“…On the other hand, Raul Ruiz seems to make rebuffs from the phantasmal images of Klossowsky, revealing the missing element in the set of empty and suspended icons we find in the “hypothesis of the stolen painting”. Lure or necessity, the construction of an image-movement as the basis of a narrative allows to integrate the experience, including that of trauma, deploying also instances of social recognition, an individual novel, collective myths, of a culture and a history. …”
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The Danish Girl by Ordoñez, Pilar

“…This essay is about a character that had its counterpart in the history of painting, Einar Wegener Morgens. As well as in the history of human rights that protects sexual diversity. …”
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Cinema as a passer of the real by Laso, Eduardo, Michel Fariña, Juan Jorge

“…This articleintroduces this thesis through examples from painting, performance and cinema.…”
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A country to eat. Identity and gastronomy in Bigas Luna’s cinema by Pavés, Gonzalo

“…Over nearly four decades of intense creative work where he combined his passion for painting with various film projects, the filmmaker built a cinematic universe where it was possible to distinguish some recurring themes. …”
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Frida Kalho: the look of cinema by Scotto Di Vettimo, Delphine

“…It recounts the tumultuous life of the artist since his young student life,his accident and his passionate relationship with the muralist Diego Rivera.Numerous references to Frida Kahlo’s paintings are included in the scenography and recall the richness and complexity of her work: more than onehundred and forty paintings, of which fifty are self-portraits, which come in different themes: politics, Mexicanism, love, nature, suffering, femininity or even death.It is from the analysis of a particular scene [which galvanizes the radicality of the abortion test and offers a framework for the expression of the temporality specific to this event, which I qualify as traumatic] that this article, which stands at the crossroads of cinema and psychoanalysis, explains adecisive stage in the creative process in Frida Kahlo.Here, the examination of the dialectic between creative process and trauma, allows us to grasp, in the nascent state, the implementation of modes ofpictorial creation which sign a new temporality in his pictorial art.Beyond that, the challenge of the biopic is to succeed on the one hand in weaving, modeling, staging and images the life of this extraordinary artist;and on the other hand to allow the spectator to discover the entanglement between the creative subjectivity of the artist and his work.…”
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The Keñewe or Yamjatrráwich by Harrington, Tomás

“…The puma and the almost extinct huemul have ceased to be victims of the aboriginal's needs, and the same happens with the hare (Dolichotis patagónica), whose skins, once turned into quillangos, were painted with exclusive designs. The other hare, called "European" in Patagonia to distinguish it from the native one, invaded those lands very recently. …”
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