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Berlinale 2006
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

56th BERLINALE 2006 With 160,000 tickets sold and an overall audience of circa 400,000, the 56th Berlinale (9-19 February 2006), the fifth under the aegis of Dieter Kosslick, will go down as the biggest, if not the best, in its festival history. Add to this the super success of the European Film Market (EFM) in the spacious Martin-Gropius-Bau - where 5,162 accredited participants representing 250 companies from 51 countries promoted over 650 films with 1100 screenings - and you have perhaps the largest turnout ever recorded at a film market. Of course, the rescheduling of the American Film Market (AFM) from spring to autumn had something to do with the big numbers at the EFM in Berlin. The only bumps in the festival road are still the unpredictable winter weather (not too uncomfortable this year, however) and the five-minute walk (with your winter coat on) from the Berlinale headquarters...
Eisenstein and Tarkovsky
Authors: Levitina Marina L.
Published: August 2019

EISENSTEIN AND TARKOVSKY: AN UNEXPECTED CONNECTION For the majority of film scholars, the names of Tarkovsky and Eisenstein represent an opposition between two radically different approaches to the art of cinema. This opposition has been established by Tarkovsky himself, when he wrote: I am radically opposed to the way Eisenstein used the frame to codify intellectual formulae. My own method of conveying experience to the audience is quite different. Of course it has to be said that Eisenstein wasn't trying to convey his own experience to anyone, he wanted to put across ideas, purely and simply; but for me that sort of cinema is utterly inimical. Moreover, Eisenstein's montage dictum, as I see it, contradicts the very basis of the unique process whereby a film affects the audience.(1) Here, Tarkovsky was referring to Eisenstein's earlier films such as Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, all made in...
Orson Welles and Rouben Mamoulian: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Authors: Thanouli Eleftheria
Published: August 2019

ORSON WELLES AND ROUBEN MAMOULIAN: Dr. JEKYLL AND Mr. HYDE? At first glance the mention of these two directors in the title might sound preposterous or even blasphemous. Orson Welles has been enshrined in cinematic history as the child prodigy, as the genius who both epitomized and revolutionized the American cinema in the 40s. On the other hand, Rouben Mamoulian has been acknowledged as an innovator who, sadly enough, suffered the tragedy of running out of innovations eventually (Sarris 160). The verdict of the film historians as regards the importance and the status of these two filmmakers is so far remarkably clear and incontestable. My goal in this article is to begin to challenge some of the widely held assumptions regarding their work and bring to the surface an aspect of Mamoulian's contribution to cinema that remains to this date entirely overlooked. For Welles' Citizen Kane made in 1941...
Canadian Shorts at Toronto 1997
Authors: Thompson Patricia
Published: August 2019

THIRTY-ONE CANADIAN SHORT FILMS WERE SCREENED AT THE 1997 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Here's a taste of the variety found in one screening during the Perspective Canada programme. Across Colour and B&W, 4 min. Incantation B&W, 5 min. Director: Cara Morton Two from the same director -- who is fond of quick-snap cutting. Across gives glimpses of a young woman swimming -- where? Apparently through memories of her life so far, to a place of survival, and all overlaid with a peaceful watery sounding track. Incantation uses the camera to record a protest march, the fast images softened by quiet interludes of a boy climbing a tree, a small girl whirling and dancing and people, talking and observing. Slight, ethereal, but too soft and wispy. Museum Director: Chris Walsh B&W, 8 min. The narrator is a documentary filmmaker who tells of her...
River
Authors: Toh Hai Leong
Published: August 2019

He Liu (The River 1997). Tsai Ming-liang. Cast: Lee Kang-sheng, Lu Hsiao-ling, Miao Tien, Yang Kuei-mei, Ann Hui.Loosely strung together as the last part of a trilogy (the first two being Rebels of the Neon God and Vive l'amour) about dysfunctional families, urban anomie and loveless sex, The River by Malaysian-born, Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang is about three protagonists or rather antagonists who do not really relate to one another. All three starred his favourite muse -- Lee Kang-sheng Xiao Kang (played by Lee Kang-sheng who also starred in the first two features) is a young man who, while wandering aimlessly in central Taipei, gets tricked by into appearing as a corpse in a movie floating in the highly polluted Tansui river. Xiao Kang's father (Miao Tien) is a morose-looking retiree who frequents the city's gay saunas. In one of the film's ironies, he accidentally picks up his own son....
Hana-bi
Authors: Toh Hai Leong
Published: August 2019

HANA-BI (Fireworks, 1997). Japan. Dir: Takeshi Kitano. Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi, Susumu Terajima, Tetsu Watanabe, Hakuryu Minato-ku. After winning the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival, the elegiac and violent yakuza-cop film Hana-Bi (Fireworks) by Japanese director (Beat) Takeshi Kitano drew a full crowd at its preview at the Academy Theatre on a frosty morning in Pusan last October. The full house testified to the power of a Kitano film which now commands a loyal following verging on the fanatical. In fact, his films attract far more viewers than the cult films of Quentin Tarantino such as Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Kitano's films are characterised by his uncanny ability to create, like in the eye of a storm, a quiet beginning which is suddenly whipped into a ferocious chain of events. However, they have none of the sadness of Hou Hsiao-hsien's landmark gangster film,...
Pusan 1997
Authors: Toh Hai Leong
Published: August 2019

SOME OBSERVATIONS OF ASIAN FILMS IN THE 2nd PUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The 1997 Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) witnessed a deluge of films -- new and old Korean films, Asian and international films, independent films, documentaries, and animations. Equally impressive was the response from the home crowd which appeared to have an insatiable appetite for internationally acclaimed films and young, famous Korean directors. (According to official records, the first PIFF attracted 200,000 people, this year, it seemed to be even more.) The 1997 festival opened with Wayne Wang's Chinese Box and closed with Ann Hui's Eighteen Springs at the 4,200-seats Pusan Yachting Centre Outdoor Theatre which also happens to be Asia's largest outdoor screen equipped with a digital sound system. Situated in Haeundae, Pusan's well-known beach resort, it was also where popular Hollywood fare such as G.l. Jane, One Night Stand, Bean, and crowd-pleasing Asian films like Opium...
Cannes 1999
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

THE 52nd CANNES FESTIVAL (12-23 May 1999) will go down in the books as the one in which a pair of unheralded films emerged as surprise winners: Luc and Jean Pierre Dardenne's Rosetta (Belgium-France) was awarded the Golden Palm, while Bruno Dumont's L'Humanité (Humanity) (France) received the follow-up Grand Prize of the Jury. In addition, Emmanuel Schotté was named Best Actor for his performance in L'Humanité, while Émilie Dequenne as Rosetta shared the Best Actress award with Sévérine Caneele in L'Humanité - remarkable, to say the least, for all are nonprofessionals. For that matter, the directors share a common fortune: these were the second feature films for both, they had previously appeared several documentaries) with feature films in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes, and their production bases in Liège (Belgium) and Lille (France) are only a short drive away from each other. Programmed at the 1996 Directors Fortnight, Luc...
Tokyo 1999 and Beyond
Authors: Toh Hai Leong
Published: August 2019

VIGOROUS JAPAN: TOKYO 1999 AND BEYOND This year, several new films by young and energetic Japanese directors stood out at the Tokyo Festival (30 October - 7 November 1999), an 11-day event attended by almost 120,000 festival-goers. In his opening address (graced by Luc Besson's Joan of Arc) the Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara told the audience that "for the past few years, Japanese cinema has lost its vitality, but I hope this situation will be reversed from this film festival." Ishihara caused a stir when he veered from his prepared speech to suggest a change of festival location from outside the "hectic and crowded" Shibuya commercial district "to somewhere nicer, where there is more greenery and better facilities available." True enough but the reality is that most major film festivals, whether in Hong Kong, Pusan, Singapore, New York, or elsewhere, are held in large urban centres with the necessary...
The Vitascope in Canada
Authors: Gutteridge Robert W.
Published: August 2019

THE VITACOPE COMES TO TORONTO The following is an excerpt from Chapter III of Magic Moments: First 20 Years of Moving Pictures in Toronto (1894-1914). The machinery for the Vitascope [Fig. 1] arrived by express today, the first exhibition in Canada of this latest marvel [but not the first exhibition of projected moving pictures in Canada (1)] of Edison's will be given at [Ottawa's] West End Park on Monday night." (2) The sole right for exhibiting the Vitascope in Canada was secured by the Holland brothers (3) [Fig. 2], of Ottawa, as agents for Raff and Gammon, the American Vitascope promoters. The scheme devised for marketing called for the selling of franchises of Thomas Armat's Vitascope (not Edison's, since Armat had allowed Raff and Gammon to use the Edison label strictly for commercial expediency). For an initial advance payment, an agent [read here, the...
Russian Cinema in the Free-Market Realm
Authors: Stojanova Christina
Published: August 2019

RUSSIAN CINEMA IN THE FREE-MARKET REALM: STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL For a motto of this article I would like to paraphrase the title of Werner Herzog's 1974 film Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle(1) (Every Man for Himself and God Against All) to read: Every Director for Himself and the Free Market Against All. The Hungarian-born social economist and philosopher Karl Polanyi provides a useful theoretical framework for the current situation in post-Communist national cinemas. In his ground-breaking work The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (1944) he critiques the inherent tendency of an all powerful market to subordinate and manipulate society. His famous dictum "laissez-faire was planned, central planning was not" rings more true today on the basis of post Communist experience, than at the time he wrote his book between the wars.(2) Polanyi has consistently warned against the dangers of separation...
Budapest 1998
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

29th HUNGARIAN FILM WEEK IN BUDAPEST Hungarian cinema, once the shining star in the socialist film firmament, is facing a production crisis. Only nine films programmed at the 29th Hungarian Film Week in Budapest (6-10 February 1998) were shot in 35mm, in contrast to the usual twenty of a decade ago. One sympathizes especially with the talented filmmakers of the past whose productions were eagerly viewed at all the international film festivals. Today, with only $2.5 million available for projects at the Motion Picture Foundation of Hungary, co-production partners are the rule rather than the exception. Nevertheless, as proven by sold-out performances for circa 100 festival entries-- features, shorts, documentaries, animation and experimental films, half of which produced on Beta SP video -- at the Corvin Multiplex in the commercial center of the city, a thirst for national film fare is clearly evident. Furthermore, the national share of the...
Sofia 1998
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

THIRD SOFIA FESTIVAL OF EUROPEAN COPRODUCTIONS Without the Sofia Festival of European Coproductions -- in itself, a rather unique film event on the festival calendar -- there might not have been a revival of Bulgarian cinema at all. The festival, launched in 1996 as "Days of European Cinema" closely on the heels of Cannes, included among a diverse array of European films a half-dozen productions that had either been produced at the local Boyana Studios or could be listed by virtue of services-rendered as legitimate Bulgarian coproductions. That initial festival spotlighted no less than nine Bulgarian co-productions, among these the film that was to compete a few weeks later at Moscow and then was selected to open the Mannheim-Heidelberg festival: Georgi Dyulgerov's Black Swallow (Bulgaria-France). Story elements as Orthodox belief, Moslem presence, traditional gypsy rituals, and post-communist hangovers. This remarkably honest and spiritually profound film about the fate of...
Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata
Authors: Walker Elsie
Published: August 2019

AN 'INCORRIGIBLE MUSIC': INGMAR BERGMAN'S AUTUMN SONATA Despite the wide critical acclaim and discussion of many films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Autumn Sonata (1977) has still not received much detailed critical attention. We shall attempt to redress the balance by discussing different kinds of aesthetic construction, particularly musical forms, presented in Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata. A discussion of the different kinds of music featured in the film will be opened out to examine tensions between different kinds of aesthetic expression within the film generally. Sometimes it is eccentric to discuss the details of one medium (that of film) using templates of another medium (music). However, the very title Autumn Sonata invites analogies between music and film forms, music is of central importance in this film, and Bergman often describes his films in musical terms.(1) First, I shall consider two different modes of expression in music (generally...
Cannes International Film Festival 2000
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

REVOLUTION ON THE CROISETTE Scandinavia was a clear winner at Cannes 2000. But the revolution on the Croisette took place elsewhere. After Lars von Trier's remarkable run of five previous entries (four times competing) in the Official Program -- to wit: Element of Crime (1984), Epidemic (1987) (selected for the Certain Regard), Europa (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996) (runner-up Grand Jury Prize), and Idiots (1998) -- the Danish director finally received the Golden Palm he so well deserved for Dancer in the Dark. Arguably he should have won it back in 1996 for Breaking the Waves and certainly he was the talk of the 1998 festival for proclaiming the merits of "Dogma Manifesto" to all and sundry who would listen to this magnificent ploy. No matter, this time Dancer in the Dark was the clear favourite from the very moment the film packed the Salle Lumière for the 8:30...
Berlinale 2000 Report
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

BERLINALE 2000 AT FIFTY FOR the first time in the history of the festival, the 50th Berlinale (9-20 February 2000) was opened by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Johannes Rau. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder joined Berlin Mayor Eberhard Diepgen at the grand inauguration of the new festival location cum headquarters on the Potsdamer Platz. Cultural Minister Michael Naumann presented Jeanne Moreau with an honorary Golden Bear and chatted with her about co-founding a new German-French Film Academy. L'Oréal sponsored the VIP lounge. The party for Danny "Trainspotting" Boyle's screen adaptation of Alex Garland's The Beach (UK-USA), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was voted the festival's most lavish and exotic. Kenneth Branagh enlivened the press conference for his Love Labour's Lost (UK) with a droll quote: "Shakespeare has been an excellent meal ticket!" MPAA's Marc Spiegel reminisced how the Berlinale became a major international festival event a half-century ago....
Sochi 99
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

THE 10th SOCHI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ASK ANY devotee of the Sochi International Film Festival, and you will hear that this innovative and visionary festival on the Black Sea, founded by Mark Rudinstein under the nickname "Kinotavr" with actor Oleg Yankovsky as festival president, far outstrips all other Russian film events when it comes to programming the best national feature films and debut productions made in the course of a year. Lately, under programming directors Sergei Lavrentiev and Andrei Plakhov, the festival has shifted into high gear until, for its 10th anniversary celebration (3-14 June 1999), it expanded its horizon to include an international competition devoted to "Young Directors" and secure the support of the nation-wide Russian TV Channel to cover the event. Indeed, this "Black Sea Riviera" with its subtropical climate, palm trees, first-class hotels, beach restaurants, and bevy of prominent guests needs only an international...
The emergence of Canadian Feature Film Policy
Authors: Kern Johanna
Published: August 2019

DURING the 1920s and early 1930s American films regularly accounted for as much as eighty-five to ninety-five percent of the national Canadian box office. There were quite a few attempts, already in those early decades of cinema, to boost the fortune of the national film industry and to establish production companies and studios. These, however, with a few exceptions, did not last long enough to change the picture of the American-dominated Canadian film industry. Canadians tried to fight back and win the battle for their home market. However, their efforts were doomed. When an attempt was made to prosecute the local subsidiary of the American Adolph Zukor's Famous Players... the case was thrown out by the judge for "anti-competitive behaviour"! Many Canadian scholars tried to explain the mechanisms behind the repetitive failures of Canadian producers and filmmakers in their ongoing struggle to maintain their own film industry. They...
Cannes 2001 Report
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2001 Two events devotee of made the 54th Festival International du Film (9-20 May 2001) particularly memorable. The first was the news that, after 22 years as délégué général, Gilles Jacob stepped up to become Président while handing down the reins to Thierry Frémaux, the latter now divides his time between Cannes and duties as head of the Institute Lumière in Lyons. The other was the presence on the Croisette of seven previous Palme d'Or directors: Francis Ford Coppola (The Conversation, 1974, and Apocalypse Now, 1979), Ermanno Olmi (The Tree of Wooden Clogs, 1978), Shohei Imamura (The Ballad of Narayama, 1983, and The Eel, 1997), David Lynch (Wild at Heart, 1990), Joel and Ethan Coen (Barton Fink, 1991), and Abbas Kiarostami (The Taste of Cherries, 1997). One might add, too, that over the past quarter century each of their eight award-winning films helped considerably to...
Scopic Drive, Time Travel, and Film Spectatorship
Authors: Rascaroli Laura
Published: August 2019

SCOPIC DRIVE, TIME TRAVEL AND FILM SPECTATORSHIP IN GILLIAM'S TWELVE MONKEYS AND BIGELOW'S STRANGE DAYS How can the dream, the bearer of the subject's desire, produce that which makes the trauma emerge repeatedly - if not its very face, at least the screen that shows us that it is still there behind?          Jacques Lacan Sometime around 1895 Albert Einstein, a 16 year-old schoolboy from Ulm, in Germany, began to think about what it would be like to ride on the crest of a light wave -- or, as one could say, to surf it. Ten years later he published 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies', a paper that dramatically changed our way of perceiving space, time, and their relationship. Given that cinema was officially born in that same year 1895, one could wonder if the new invention, with its ray of light clearly visible against the darkness of...
Between Monsoon Wedding and Behind Enemy Lines
Authors: Stoneman Rod
Published: August 2019

ALL GENERALISATIONS ARE FALSE: BETWEEN MONSOON WEDDING AND BEHIND ENEMY LINES To start at the end of Monsoon Wedding: hidden amongst the end credits, as a roller caption goes by, cutting to fast flashbacks of shots from the exhilarating musical finale, there is concealed amongst the lists of production personnel a three line note: "We are like that.40 locations 30 days.exactly and approximately." There are always the perverse pleasures of discovering a hidden code -- there at the edge of the text. (I remember the most radical aspect of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, aside from the explicit sexual cruelty, was the bibliography he supplied in the end credits: Barthes, De Sade, Sollers). It is only cinephiles who stay in the emptying cinema for the credits and then amongst them only a tiny minority who would understand an obscure reference to the shoot schedule. "We are...
Taiwanese Filmmakers Wang Shaudi and Huang Liming
Authors: Uhde Jan
Published: August 2019

TAIWANESE FILMMAKERS WANG SHAUDI AND HUANG LIMING IN CONVERSATION WITH KINEMA After studying theatre in the United States, Wang Shaudi returned to Taiwan to a prolific career in television, directing many hours of TV drama and documentaries, and producing plays before making her first feature film Accidental legend (1996) followed by Yours and Mine (1997). Scriptwriter and producer Huang Liming studied journalism in Taiwan and the United States. She started writing for television sixteen years ago, penning stories for Shaudi's TV dramas. They are currently filming a 20-hour drama special for the fifth anniversary of Taiwan's Public Television Service in 2003. KINEMA spoke to the filmmakers about their first animated feature Grandma and her Ghosts (1998) which was screened at the 2002 Far East Film festival in Udine, Italy. KINEMA: What do you think of the general situation of animation production in Taiwan?Liming: The first university animation...
1st Transylvanian International Film Festival in Cluj, Romania
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

Other first film festivals should have it so good. Every guest arriving from abroad to attend the First Transylvanian International Film Festival (3-9 June 2002) in the Romanian city of Cluj (formerly Klausenburg) asked the same question: "Where's Dracula's castle, and how can I get there?" To which Tudor Giurgiu, the festival's founder-director, responded with an same amused grin: "Stay around until closing night: we're screening Murnau's Nosferatu to musical accompaniment!" Just another way of saying that no less than four castles lay claim to Dracula's hideout. "Probably Bram Stoker meant the castle in Sighisoara (formerly SchÃ¤ssburg)," said one informed source. "SchÃ¤ssburg is a 13th-century museum town, only an hour's drive away."Forget Dracula's castle on your first visit to Cluj-Napoca, inhabited by the Dacians in ancient times and founded by the Romans in the 2nd century. The city with the most moviegoers in Romania, Cluj (formerly part of Austria-Hungary) has academies...
Sarawak Millennium Film Festival 2002
Authors: Wee Brandon
Published: August 2019

The inaugural edition of the SMFF transpired over seasonal monsoon spells in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.An official first for Malaysia, the SMFF is a project by the state government and organised by the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) in Kuching. There have been previous attempts by various industry parties (mainly in Kuala Lumpur) to establish the country's introductory film festival, but the continual lack of funding has ensured that this prospect remained a dream, until now. So it is with much anticipation that the SMFF joins the spirited posse of young Southeast Asian film festivals, behind Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines. With a primary mission to trace the dynamics of Southeast Asia's cinemas, the SMFF's other objectives include promoting the region's independent and student films, sharing problems, exploring new technologies in distribution and exhibition, and networking for co-operative efforts, investment and financing.It's also opportune that the birth of the SMFF comes...
Director Jeffery Jeturian
Authors: Ng Yvonne
Published: August 2019

DIRECTOR JEFFERY JETURIAN IN CONVERSATION WITH YVONNE NG Born in 1959, Filipino director Jeffrey Jeturian won critical acclaim with his first feature drama, I Wish It Were Love (Sana pag-ibig na) in 1998. His second film Fetch a Pail of Water (Pila-balde, 2000), about life in the slums, received the Gold Award at the 2000 Worldfest International Film Festival in Houston, Texas and enjoyed commercial and critical success at home. It has played at numerous festivals, among them the Far East Film festival in Udine, Italy where this meeting with the filmmaker took place. Kinema: How did you get into filmmaking?Jeffery Jeturian: I studied broadcasting communication at the University of Philippines. That was supposed to be for television but right after school I went into film production. I started out as a production assistant and worked my way up into being a director. I worked as a script...
Notes on Globalization and Identity
Authors: Stojanova Christina
Published: August 2019

JEFF ET PLUTO DO MONTREAL: NOTES ON GLOBALIZATION AND IDENTITY Two films caught my attention shown at Les Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois in February 1999: Carole Poliquin's medium-length documentary Turbulence and François Dyotte's medium-length docu-drama Jeff et Pluto. Both were produced in 1998 by independent film companies based in Montréal and Turbulence was co-produced by the NFB. They both raise questions about globalization, marginality, nationhood and identity that are central to our cultural quotidian, and share similar immediate concerns about the particular effects of globalization on Québec society and culture. Carol Poliquin's film Turbulence explores the social and economic parameters of globalization and their ethics in the domain of economics, while Jeff et Pluto offer original observation into the psychological and sociological effects of cultural globalization. In an attempt to answer the pressing question why the rich become richer and the poor poorer, Poliquin structures her film around the...
The Vanishing and Nightwatch
Authors: Schneider Steven Jay
Published: August 2019

REPACKAGING RAGE: THE VANISHING AND NIGHTWATCH It's the same movie, only completely different. It follows the same plot, except where it changes everything. - Desmond Howe, on The Vanishing(1) As for the work of Bornedal, I'd best reserve comment. ...Maybe he looked at the final cut and said, "Mik bortaagë dåntü ødån!" ("This is f...in' great!"). Maybe it's a great film in Denmark, but it's a terrible, terrible movie in America.- Shane Ham, on Nightwatch(2) Sometimes the devil is in the details.- Barney Cousins (Jeff Bridges) in The Vanishing In 1988, Spoorloos, a Dutch thriller directed by George Sluizer, premiered in the Netherlands to packed houses and rave reviews. Six years later, in 1994, Ole Bornedal's Danish thriller Nattevagten was released in its home country, also to critical and commercial acclaim. Besides evincing a clear Hitchcockian influence, both pictures were made on relatively low budgets,...
The Mechanics of Engenderneering
Authors: Schwartzman Roy
Published: August 2019

THE MECHANICS OF ENGENDERNEERING: CYBORGS AND ALIENS AS MANUFACTURED EVIL IN SCIENCE-FICTION FILM This essay examines a process called engenderneering, which can be understood as personification with a twist: the investiture of non-human entities with a gendered identity. Science fiction films, despite their futuristic settings, often associate gender markers with assignments of moral value. Manufactured life forms such as robots and cyborgs highlight the extent that gender markers serve as necessary or sufficient determinants of an entity's value. Aliens, although not bound to human gender constraints, still tend to retain explicit, conventional signs of gender. To avoid projecting the negative associations of femininity into the future, perhaps science fiction narratives could transcend gender as a two-valued concept. The american novelist Ursula LeGuin raised a question whether gender was necessary to define an entity as human. To answer this question, LeGuin created in The Left Hand of Darkness the hermaphroditic...
Festival des 3 Continents 2001
Authors: Dönmez-Colin Gönül
Published: August 2019

FESTIVAL DES 3 CONTIENTS: A VIRTUAL VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY Festival of Three Continents (20-27 November 2001), which has been taking place for 23 years in the French city of Nantes near the Atlantic coast -- the city of Jules Verne and the Montgolfier brothers- continued its tradition of displaying recent films from Asia, Latin America and Africa this year with a refined selection that seemed to favour Asia. Such an imbalance was not surprising, since there are very few quality films made in Africa or Latin America today. Nantes is a festival first and foremost for the people of the city although many professionals from all over the world attend this adventurous and intellectually stimulating event regularly. Alain and Philippe Jalladeau, the directors of the festival who laid the foundations almost a quarter of a century ago roam the three continents each year to discover unknown territories and to...
Talleres para docentes: actividades para la atención de la diversidad escolar
Authors: Fontana Hernández Angélica
Published: August 2019

La atención de todos los estudiantes es un reto que se impone cada día al sistema educativo costarricense y las transformaciones substanciales que requiere se empujan desde sus bases.

La escuela, como institución social, espacio de aproximación de la diversidad existente y responsable de la formación de las futuras generaciones, se enfrenta a la difícil tarea de ofrecer respuestas adecuadas a las diversas capacidades y necesidades de la población estudiantil.

Desde esta perspectiva, se diseña una propuesta que permite a los docentes de la Educación General Básica (preescolar, I y II ciclos, materias especiales y de otra lengua) desarrollar habilidades en la elaboración de estrategias pedagógicas para la atención de la diversidad estudiantil.

La propuesta contempla diez talleres que siguen un proceso de reflexión-participación-construcción e intercambio. Los participantes podrán expresar sus ideas, inquietudes y emociones sobre los temas abordados construir conceptos, materiales y estrategias didácticas para la atención de la diversidad.
Los comienzos del CIDE
Authors: Benavides Oscar
Published: August 2019

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La concepción de “ser humano” en Pablo Freire
Authors: Pineda Ibarra Roberto
Published: August 2019

Recibido 22 de febrero 2007 • Aprobado 14 de marzo 2007  Este artículo analiza cómo concibe Pablo Freire, –un teórico de la educación con amplia trayectoria e influencia mundial, y con una gran contribución a lo que se conoce como pedagogía Alternativa. Dicha concepción se ha plasmado en varios libros, producto de su experiencia como educador.
Antecedente nacional e internacional sobre la percepción y los derechos de las niñas, los niños, los y las adolescentes
Authors: Vicente Salazar Rodolfo
Published: August 2019

Recibido 16 de octubre 2006 • Aprobado 14 de febrero 2007

 

 

Hasta mediados del siglo XVIII, el niño fue considerado como un adulto en miniatura; pero Juan Jacobo Rousseau abrió las puertas al estudio del ser en formación, y sentó las bases necesarias para la ciencia Paidología o estudio del niño, que enfoca los conflictos intelectuales y físicos de la vida infantil, y sus secuelas Paidofilaxis, Puericultura y Pediatría.

De la Sociedad de las Nacionales, surgió el Consultorio de la Trata de Mujeres y la Protección del Niño, en 1919, y en Ginebra se fundó la Unión Internacional de Socorros, en 1920.

En 1916, se realizó en Argentina el I Congreso Americano del Niño, al cual sucedieron otros regularmente en América. En 1924, se redactó la primera “Declaración de los Derechos del Niño” y luego se proclamó el primer decálogo referente a los Derechos del Niño.

En mayo de 1929, se presentó al Congreso Constitucional un proyecto de Ley para crear una institución que tuviera por objeto la protección del Niño, que se convirtió en Ley en 1930, con el nombre del Patronato Nacional de la Infancia (PANI), con el encargo de velar por el bienestar de las personas menores de edad en su desarrollo físico, intelectual, moral y emocional.

En 1930, en Costa Rica, se hizo la Primera Declaración de los Derechos del Niño Costarricense.

La creación del PANI, la Declaración de los Derechos del Niño, y la instauración del Código de la Infancia, son tres hechos que sitúan a Costa Rica como uno de los países pioneros en Latinoamérica y en el mundo, respecto a la protección que se les brinda al niño y a la madre.
Sexual-i-hablando, las representaciones sociales de las estudiantes de Educación Preescolar en relación con la Educación para la Sexualidad
Authors: Sánchez López Martha
Published: August 2019

Recibido 22 de noviembre 2006 • Aprobado 14 de marzo 2007

 

 

 

La presente investigación aborda las representaciones que tienen las estudiantes de la carrera de Educación Preescolar de la División de Educación Básica (DEB), sobre el curso Educación para la Sexualidad, impartido en el IV nivel del Bachillerato, a partir de la información que tienen las estudiantes sobre la sexualidad y de las expectativas respecto a su práctica profesional en las aulas preescolares sobre la educación para la sexualidad, con el fin de reflexionar acerca del impacto en los niveles pedagógico y subjetivo de la propuesta metodológica y de contenidos. También, se sugieren estrategias didácticas áulicas y la consecuente incorporación de éstas de parte de las y los estudiantes en su práctica profesional.

La metodología utilizada, desde el enfoque cualitativo, consideró adecuada la realización de entrevistas en profundidad, así como de relatos inducidos que dieran cuenta de las vivencias en torno a la educación para la sexualidad las dudas, temores, práctica docente y las estrategias para abordar la temática, entre otros.

La investigación obtuvo como resultados una propuesta en contenidos y método para este curso. Además, una Prueba de Oraciones Incompletas (TOI), diseñado para conocer la información general que manejan las y los estudiantes que se matriculan en él, respecto de: la sexualidad, educación para la sexualidad, la sexualidad de las mujeres, la sexualidad de mujeres adolescentes, la sexualidad de las niñas, la sexualidad de los varones, sexualidad de varones adolescentes y la sexualidad de los niños.
Jornadas de auto y mutua capacitación con los maestros y las maestras de Lengua y Cultura del distrito de Chirripó
Authors: Watson Hannia , Camacho Lolita , Brenes Cristian
Published: August 2019

Recibido 4 de marzo de 2007 • Aprobado 30 de abril de 2007

 

 

 

Con el propósito de contribuir a la disminución de las desventajas educativas en que se han desarrollado las comunidades cabécares del distrito de Chirripó, se planea el Proyecto Jornadas de auto y mutua capacitación con los maestros y las maestras de Lengua y Cultura, como una estrategia para mejorar la calidad de la práctica docente y generar procesos educativos culturalmente pertinentes.
(Con) textos y silencios: la comunidad como espacio de aprendizaje no formal
Authors: Delgado Cascante Oscar
Published: August 2019

Recibido 15 de noviembre de 2006 • Aprobado 30 de noviembre de 2006

 

La presente ponencia surge de la experiencia de Jornadas Comunitarias Amor Joven: un modelo de abordaje comunitario de la sexualidad de los y las adolescentes, que pretendía llevar la educación de la sexualidad joven a comunidades de diferentes regiones del país.

Las siguientes son las reflexiones sobre la experiencia en dos niveles: primero, por la decisión de apoyar procesos de aprendizaje y no procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje, en la educación no formal y, segundo, el asunto de la necesidad de crear sinergias entre los sistemas de aprendizaje.
El rol de la escuela en la construcción del desarrollo rural: experiencias argentinas
Authors: Millán Natalia
Published: August 2019

Recibido 30 de octubre de 2006 • Aprobado 15 de noviembre de 2006  La globalización, los procesos de desterritorialización de la producción, el surgimiento del desarrollo local y la instalación de la sociedad del conocimiento, –inclusive en los ámbitos rurales–, implican un serio cuestionamiento para la educación rural, que debe enfrentarse a un proceso de modernización y reconstrucción para no quedar excluida de los procesos sociales actuales.Se analizan en la presente ponencia algunos ítems de la política educativa para el sector rural en Argentina, y se reflexiona, a partir de dichas experiencias, sobre como seguir de cara al futuro.
Actualización académica para Administradores Educativos en zonas de atención prioritaria, análisis de una experiencia
Authors: Vargas Jiménez Ileana
Published: August 2019

El siguiente artículo refiere al proyecto de extensión que nació como una necesidad de actualizar los conocimientos de los y las profesionales en administración educativa en ejercicio de sus funciones, ubicados en zonas de atención prioritaria de San José y Heredia y se coordina con el Programa para el Mejoramiento de la Calidad de la Educación y Vida de Comunidades Urbanas de Atención Prioritaria (PROMECUM), del Ministerio de Educación Pública.
La educación rural y sus desafíos en el siglo XXI
Authors: Ovares Barquero Sandra , Méndez Garita Nuria , Torres Victoria Nancy , Cerdas Rivera Yadira
Published: August 2019

Recibido 10 de marzo de 2007 • Aprobado 30 de abril de 2007

 

 

 

El presente artículo centra su interés en los desafíos que tiene la educación rural para este siglo XXI; describe el proceso vivido por las poblaciones rurales y como la zona rural, la indígena y los migrantes han sido excluidos. Termina con una serie de propuestas que deben ser incorporadas no sólo en los planes de estudio, sino han de ser consideradas por quienes trabajan en estas regiones.
Experiencia práctica: socialización de conceptos, aplicaciones y beneficios de la biotecnología en Costa Rica experience: socializing the concepts, applications and benefits of biotechnology in Costa Rica
Authors: García-Jiménez Emanuel , Gatica-Arias Andrés-M. , Solano-Campos Frank , Abdelnour-Esquivel Ana
Published: August 2019

Biotechnological processes have accompanied humanity since the beginning of civilization; proof of this is the use of yeasts for the preparation of bread, wine and beer. Biotechnology has also been fundamental in the improvement of plants and animals that are part of the human diet; and in vitro culture techniques have accelerated the processes for obtaining better crops  for our growing population. The project “Biotechnology for everyone: Socialization of concepts, applications and benefits” socializes the concepts, applications and benefits of biotechnology among educators, opinion-forming groups, and producers in the agricultural and food sectors. The project has successfully used new technologies to reach its goals.
How many larvae and nymphs of Amblyomma spp. ticks (Ixodida: Ixodidae) are needed to detect the presence of Rickettsia (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae)?
Authors: Barrantes Gilbert , Sánchez-Quirós Catalina
Published: August 2019

Tick-borne rickettsiosis is becoming a common emergent disease in many tropical countries, and the rapid detection of this disease could reduce the impact on wild life and public health. Pools of larvae and nymphs, and individual adult ticks are used for detection of Rickettsia species (Rickettsiaceae), but the number of larvae and nymphs in the pools likely affect the probability of detection of Rickettsia spp. We tested whether the number of larvae or nymphs of Amblyomma (Ixodidae) included in the pools affected the probability of detection. The number of larvae in each pool did not affect the probability of detecting Rickettsia spp., but the probability of detection increased rapidly with the number of nymphs. In this study, 20 nymphs are enough to approach a probability of 1 of detecting Rickettsia
Effective gene flow patterns across a fragmented landscape in southern Costa Rica for Symphonia globulifera (Clusiaceae); a species with mobile seed and pollen dispersers
Authors: Solís-Hernández Wendy , Fuchs Eric-J.
Published: August 2019

In tropical trees, forest fragmentation has been shown to affect mating and gene flow patterns. Mobile dispersal vectors should be less sensitive to fragmented landscapes and may ameliorate the genetic effects of forest fragmentation on plant populations. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed gene flow patterns in Symphonia globulifera, a tropical tree species with highly mobile pollinators and seed dispersers in the Osa Peninsula in southern Costa Rica. We used microsatellites to study genetic diversity and realized gene flow patterns between a continuous forest and a forest fragment. We found high levels of genetic diversity in adults and seedlings at both sites. Parentage analyses suggest near-neighbor matings and frequent long-distance gene flow events. Half the progeny beneath an adult was not sired by that tree and the majority of established seedlings were the result of long-distance gene dispersal. Gene flow from the forest into the fragment was more common than from the fragment into the continuous forests. Despite long distance gene flow events, seedling spatial genetic structure was stronger and extended further in the forest fragment likely due to limited seed dispersal. We conclude that fragmentation affects gene flow in this tropical tree and may compromise its genetic diversity in forest fragments even for a species with mobile pollen and seed vectors.
Angiostrongylus costaricensis, un parásito neotropical cuyo diagnóstico y tratamiento siguen siendo controversiales
Authors: Gutiérrez-Espeleta Gustavo , Páez Rolando , Arias-Echandi María-Laura
Published: August 2019

La angiostrongilosis abdominal es una parasitosis esporádica, que ocurre en países del neotrópico, especialmente en Costa Rica. Es una enfermedad cuyo diagnóstico es infrecuente y su tratamiento controversial. Se presenta un caso de un adulto que muestra un malestar generalizado, dolor abdominal y una intensa eosinofilia que lleva a la detección de una masa en la fosa iliaca inferior derecha. El diagnóstico definitivo se hace mediante la prueba de Morera y el tratamiento incluye el uso de azitromicina y metronidazol, no obstante no se usan antihelmínticos ni se realiza cirugía. El caso descrito pone de manifiesto que tanto el diagnóstico como el tratamiento de esta enfermedad parasitaria continúan siendo inciertos. No se descarta que exista un subregistro importante de esta parasitosis o que los síntomas sean confundidos con otras patologías.
A possible role of decorations in spiderwebs as protection devices that distract predators
Authors: Soley Fernando-G.
Published: August 2019

Several functions have been proposed for silk decorations (i.e., stabilimenta) in spiderwebs. One hypothesis is that web decorations protect spiders from predators, either by concealing the spiders, physically shielding them, or by deflecting predatory attacks. This study uses data gathered in opportunistic manner when studying the behavior of Stenolemus giraffa, an assassin bug that preys almost exclusively on web-building spiders. Stenolemus giraffa approach orb spiders on foot, and usually capture the spiders at the hub region of the web. When pursuing spiders, S. giraffa routinely tap the web with their antennae, and also tap the spiders prior to attacking them. The observations available from this study suggest that S. giraffa got “distracted” momentarily by the decorations in the webs of Purumitra sp. (Uloboridae) and Argiope katherina (Araneidae). In some instances, the assassin bugs tapped these structures for several seconds or minutes instead of tapping the adjacent spiders. In interactions with A. katherina, S. giraffa was more successful at capturing the spiders when the webs lacked decorations; however, sample sizes are small (this could not be tested for Purumitra sp. because only one web lacked decorations). Finally, some of the spiders detected S. giraffa tapping the decorations or that had begun tapping the spiders and that had interrupted this behavior to tap the decorations. The data available suggest that, for S. giraffa, the decorations in these webs interfered with the process of locating the spiders. If further experiments corroborate this idea, this information would be in accord with Hingston’s (1927) hypothesis that web decorations can confuse spider predators.
The skipper butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) of the Reserva Ecológica Leonelo Oviedo, San José, Costa Rica
Authors: Murillo-Hiller Luis-Ricardo , Segura-Bermúdez Oscar-Antonio , Barquero Juan-Diego , Bolaños Federico
Published: August 2019

Hesperiidae is one of the most diverse families of butterflies in Costa Rica, with approximately 486 species. Even so, there are few butterfly lists where this group has been included. In this paper, we present information on seasonality, abundance and natural history features of this family for the Leonelo Oviedo Ecological Reserve (RELO), a 2 ha forest embedded in an urban matrix. Over the course of two years, a monthly sampling was carried out on a 270 m trail across the Reserve from 08:00 to 12:00, collecting all the individuals located within 5 m on each side of the trail. To better represent the richness, individuals were also randomly collected for more than ten years, but the butterflies collected in this way were not included in the statistical analysis. Photographs were taken of all the species in order to provide an identification guide. For the cryptic species, drawings and dissections of the genitalia were made. For the community indexes we used Microsoft Excel and the Shannon index with base two logarithm. For the summary of the monthly data analysis were done according to dry and wet season. For a comparison of richness and abundance we did a g-test to evaluate if there are differences between seasons; however, with the use of the R package vegan a hierarchical cluster analysis was done using the Jaccard index with Wards minimum variance agglomerative method. With R package pvclust the uncertainty of the clusters based on a bootstrap with 10 000 iterations. 423 individuals of 49 species were included in the statistical analysis, from a total of 435 individuals of 58 species. A tendency to greater richness and abundance of skippers was found during the dry season. Through the cluster analysis, it was possible to determine that in relation to the diversity of skippers, both wet seasons are grouped significantly (P = 0.05). The dry seasons are also grouped significantly (P = 0.05). The reserve has connectivity with other green areas via a stream. During the wet season, plant growth increases connectivity, which could lead to the entry of new individuals of different species that are not permanent residents of RELO and establish small populations, increasing the richness and abundance of species. This added to the variation in the occurrence of some species of butterflies in response to seasonal variations and differences in the availability of resources in different seasons explains the grouping of species between seasons.