Aaron Cutler
The Art of Conversation
Aaron Cutler at the 15th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival
May 2013
“THIS FILM WAS MADE for very little money, with very few people,” the great Brazilian filmmaker Júlio Bressane told his mainly Argentine audience. He paused. “And it was never released. Nobody saw it. There would be three people at … READ ON
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This American Life
Aaron Cutler on the La Di Da film festival at 92Y Tribeca
September 2012
JOSH AND BENNIE SAFDIE’S short film The Black Balloon (2011), inspired by Albert Lamorisse’s immortal children’s work The Red Balloon (1963), begins as a harried balloon man accidentally releases an array of brightly-hued delights into… READ ON
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Dreams of Life
Aaron Cutler on “Premiere Brazil!” at MoMA
July 2012
A PROBLEM WITH NATION-THEMED PROGRAMMING is that it presumes a national character. In the case of Brazil, whose multiethnic population of two hundred million lives across a wide and diverse array of terrains, any summary of that character … READ ON
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Present Past Present
Aaron Cutler on Brazil’s 17th It’s All True documentary festival
May 2012
“THE XINGU WILL NEVER BE BOUGHT.” In recent months the Amazon’s Xingu River has been encroached upon by government development, but Megaron Txucarramãe, an important spokesperson for the Kayapó Indians, vowed his people wouldn’t … READ ON
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Now and Then
Aaron Cutler at the 35th São Paulo International Film Festival
December 2011
THE DIALECTIC OF OLD AND NEW ruled this year’s São Paulo International Film Festival, the first without founder and director Leon Cakoff, who died of melanoma complications the week before its opening. One sensed the present addressing … READ ON