Eugenio Polgovsky
Subtitle: la poética de lo real = poetics of the real
By: editado por = edited by Mara Polgovsky
Contributors: Polgovsky, Eugenio, 1977-; Polgovsky, Mara, editor
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Ambulante Ediciones; Tecolote films
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Ciudad de México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9786079619930
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion pictures; Documentary films; History and criticism
Other titles: Eugenio Polgovsky :; Poética de lo real
Description: The book summons the collective reflection of critics, photographic historians, filmmakers and theorists who approached the photographic and cinematographic work of Eugenio Polgovsky. This book has the participation of 13 authors, including Eugenio himself. Among them are some of the most internationally renowned film critics, such as Dennis Lim (director of film programming at the Lincoln Centre in New York), Olaf Möller (programmer of the Rotterdam International Film Festival), Diego Lerer (delegate from Latin America for the Directors' Fortnight of Cannes), Carlos Bonfil (outstanding Mexican critic and contributor to the newspaperLa Jornada), Kieron Corless (deputy editor of the British film magazine SightSound), Erica Segre (University of Cambridge), Michel Lipkes (filmmaker and artistic director of FICUNAM), Deborah Martin (University College London), Mara Polgovsky (Birkbeck College, University of London), the Austrian documentary director Hubert Sauper (Darwin Nightmare, We come as friends, Epicentre), Mexican Carlos Reygadas (Japón, Luz Silenciosa, Batalla en el Cielo, Nuestro Tiempo) and Gareth Evans (film curator at the Whitechapel Gallery). "In the absence of a professional school of photography in Mexico, I began to study cinematography, although I also became interested in screenwriting, directing, editing, and acting. Since the beginning of my career as a filmmaker, I distanced myself from the commercial industry, where young directors copy cinematic 'success stories' and dress up business with narrative, instead of developing their own language. Photography and editing constitute the axis of my cinematographic practice; my films construct their narratives through the gaze, without depending on voiceovers or other forms of verbal description" -Page 37.

The book summons the collective reflection of critics, photographic historians, filmmakers and theorists who approached the photographic and cinematographic work of Eugenio Polgovsky. This book has the participation of 13 authors, including Eugenio himself. Among them are some of the most internationally renowned film critics, such as Dennis Lim (director of film programming at the Lincoln Centre in New York), Olaf Möller (programmer of the Rotterdam International Film Festival), Diego Lerer (delegate from Latin America for the Directors' Fortnight of Cannes), Carlos Bonfil (outstanding Mexican critic and contributor to the newspaperLa Jornada), Kieron Corless (deputy editor of the British film magazine SightSound), Erica Segre (University of Cambridge), Michel Lipkes (filmmaker and artistic director of FICUNAM), Deborah Martin (University College London), Mara Polgovsky (Birkbeck College, University of London), the Austrian documentary director Hubert Sauper (Darwin Nightmare, We come as friends, Epicentre), Mexican Carlos Reygadas (Japón, Luz Silenciosa, Batalla en el Cielo, Nuestro Tiempo) and Gareth Evans (film curator at the Whitechapel Gallery). "In the absence of a professional school of photography in Mexico, I began to study cinematography, although I also became interested in screenwriting, directing, editing, and acting. Since the beginning of my career as a filmmaker, I distanced myself from the commercial industry, where young directors copy cinematic 'success stories' and dress up business with narrative, instead of developing their own language. Photography and editing constitute the axis of my cinematographic practice; my films construct their narratives through the gaze, without depending on voiceovers or other forms of verbal description" -Page 37.
Notes: Title on page [19]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In Spanish and English
Table of contents: title: Una suerte de reverenciaʺ = A Form of Reverenceʺ / Deborah Martin & Eugenio Polgovsky; title: LA PROXIMIDAD COMO MÉTODO = PROXIMITY AS METHOD; title: El México silvestre = Polgovskyœs Rural Mexico / Carlos Bonfil; title: Trópico de Cáncer = Tropic of Cancer / Dennis Lim; title: INFANCIA Y MEMORIA = CHILDHOOD AND MEMORY; title: Niños espectrales: tiempo y herencia en Los herederos = Spectral Children: Time and Inheritance inThe Inheritors / Deborah Martin; title: RITUALES DE LO ACIAGO = FORLORN RITUALS; title: Mitote = Mitote / Diego Lerer; title: La claridad = Clarity / Carlos Reygadas; title: EL MONTAJE COMO ALQUIMIA = MONTAGE AS ALCHEMY; title: Resurrección: la poética del montaje = Resurrection: The Poetics of Montage / Mara Polgovsky; title: Instantáneas de lo real = Snapshots of the Real / Kieron Corless; title: ȦDÓNDE ESTÁS, NIÑO DE LA GENTE?ʺ = WHERE ARE YOU, CHILD OF THE PEOPLE?ʺ; title: Alegría, a pesar = Happiness Despite / Olaf Möller; title: Carta a un amigo = Letter to a Friend / Michel Lipkes; title: ADAGIO PARA EL JOVEN FOTÓGRAFO = ADAGIO FOR THE YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER; title: La poética del acercamiento = The Poetics of Close / Erica Segre; title: FRONTERAS DEL TIEMPO = TIME FRONTIERS; title: En el espacio con Eugenio; title: In Space with Eugenio / Hubert Sauper; title: Después de las palabras = After Words / Gareth Evans; title: Semblanza = Biography; title: Filmografía = Filmography; title: Semblanzas de los autores = Authorsœ Biographies; title: Sobre esta edición = About this Edition.