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Portrait of Messi as a Young Man (excerpt)

Nov 11, 2016 Comments Off on Portrait of Messi as a Young Man (excerpt) by

Excerpt from Mexican writer Juan Villoro’s God is Round, translated by Thomas Bunstead (Restless Books, 2016) CHILDHOOD PREFIGURATIONS Not long before taking part in his first final in youth competitions, Lionel Messi got locked in a bathroom. The child whom no defender was able to stop found himself up against a broken lock. The match was about […]

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Featured poet: Alejandra Lerma (Colombia)

Nov 08, 2016 Comments Off on Featured poet: Alejandra Lerma (Colombia)

Born in Cali in 1991, Lerma studied social communication and journalism at the Universidad del Valle. Her poems have been published in the individual collections El lenguaje de mi alma (2008) and Oscuridad en luz alta (2015), and she has also participated in collective works like Antología poética amores urbanos (2011) and Trébol de cuatro hojas (2014). Currently […]

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Sin muertos no hay carnaval, la cinta ecuatoriana de Sebastián Cordero que busca llegar a los Premios Oscar

Oct 31, 2016 Comments Off on Sin muertos no hay carnaval, la cinta ecuatoriana de Sebastián Cordero que busca llegar a los Premios Oscar

Por Carla Loaiza (Periodista y corresponsal en Ecuador) Un retrato de los contrastes de la ciudad portuaria de Guayaquil y la disputa por la propiedad de las tierras son parte de la línea argumental de la nueva cinta Sin muertos no hay carnaval, dirigida por el afamado cineasta ecuatoriano Sebastián Cordero, quien lleva a sus […]

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Echoes of echoes

Oct 22, 2016 Comments Off on Echoes of echoes

Dialogues with Myself and My Others Isaac Goldemberg, translated from the Spanish by Jonathan Tittler Cardboard House Press, 2016 The “My Others” in the title isn’t a typo. Every poem in this book begins with a quote from some other person. Isaac Goldemberg’s poems respond to these epigraphs, either by extending their ideas, arguing against them, turning […]

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Featured artist: Visual poet Ismael Velázquez Juárez (Mexico)

Sep 23, 2016 Comments Off on Featured artist: Visual poet Ismael Velázquez Juárez (Mexico)

This week’s featured artist is the poet Ismael Velázquez Juárez (Mexico City, 1960), whose delicate compositions play with empty space, 18th century imagery and geometric abstraction. Velázquez Juárez’s poems and collages have appeared in magazines in Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Germany, the United States and Spain. His published work includes Billiard Dust (poetry), The Art of Drinking (aphorisms); Places and Non-places […]

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Review: Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Julieta’

Aug 25, 2016 Comments Off on Review: Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Julieta’

Almodóvar’s twentieth feature opens with the screen filled by red, rhythmically breathing fabric, a mysterious, sensuous image full of intensity that sets the tone for the whole film. The mood breaks as the camera moves to a woman, Julieta (Emma Suarez), who is busily preparing to leave Madrid for Portugal to start a new life […]

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El Juego de Ripper de Isabel Allende

Aug 17, 2016 Comments Off on El Juego de Ripper de Isabel Allende

Por Beckie Irons. Me  considero  un  amante  completa  de  las  novelas  de  Isabel  Allende, gracias a ellas nació  mi  amor  por  la  cultura  de  América  Latina. Retrato  en  Sepia fue  el  primer  libro que  leí  en  español,  y La  Casa  de  los  Espíritus el  primero que leí escrito por  un  autor latinoamericano. Dos grandes clásicos […]

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Prints, politics and protest in Chile

Jul 24, 2016 Comments Off on Prints, politics and protest in Chile

This week VL English looks at the political art of Pedro Alberto Fuentealba Campos, a visual artist trained at the School of Arts of the University of Concepción, Chile, where he specialized in printmaking. Fuentealba Campos has participated in projects related to the performing arts, film, video, urban intervention, performance, and graphic simulation, and is interested in a wide […]

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Featured artist: Genoveva Pérez Volpe

Jul 05, 2016 Comments Off on Featured artist: Genoveva Pérez Volpe

Uruguayan artist Genoveva Pérez Volpe (Montevideo, 1974) uses inks and watercolours to illustrate books for children. She works as a graphic designer, but has always been drawn to illustration. 
She lived in Barcelona for 12 years, where she started the Janistudio project (2007), a small visual communications studio, before moving back to Montevideo. Ventana Latina is pleased to present […]

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YORO de Marina Perezagua

May 30, 2016 Comments Off on YORO de Marina Perezagua

“En una mañana clara y sin nubes la muerte cayó del cielo y el mundo cambió”. Con estas palabras atravesadas por la imagen poética del horror, el presidente Obama rindió homenaje a los 140.000 muertos que dejó la primera bomba atómica el 6 de agosto de 1945 en la ciudad de Hiroshima. Es el primer […]

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Reseña: ‘Severina’, por Rodrigo Rey Rosa, 2011

Apr 11, 2016 Comments Off on Reseña: ‘Severina’, por Rodrigo Rey Rosa, 2011

  ‘Severina’,  por Rodrigo Rey Rosa, 2011. Alfaguara: México. ISBN: 978-607-11-1135-7 Por Beckie Irons  Severina es sin duda una novela encantadora que entrelaza una infatuación con la palabra escrita con la de una mujer. Para mí, siendo un amante de todas las librerías, pero en particular con los que vendan ediciones viejos y polvorientos este […]

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El Club, reseña sobre la última película de Pablo Larraín que será nominada a los premios Oscar

Mar 14, 2016 Comments Off on El Club, reseña sobre la última película de Pablo Larraín que será nominada a los premios Oscar

Por Laura Plancarte   El Club, película del chileno Pablo Larraín se llevó el premio del jurado en el festival de Berlín 2015 y causó conmoción en los festivales de Toronto y San Sebastián, al mostrar la realidad de la pedofilia desde un lente más humano. Al inicio Larraín nos hace creer que vamos a […]

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Fluid logic

Mar 11, 2016 Comments Off on Fluid logic

El botón de nácar (The Pearl Button) Director: Patricio Guzmán Distributor: New Wave Films   A camera pans over the cordillera with dips and swoops, cuts to water dripping on a zinc roof. Water runs down leaves and stalks of plants, splashes in rivers. We are shown comets, galaxies, rivulets, oceans; water is the connection, the intermediary force […]

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