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In the university I had to do only two levels of English: 3 and 4. Level 3 I studied in the Faculty of Arts and the experience was very good, with pedagogical dynamics very similar to those of ICEI, where I did level 4.  On both levels, my confidence was mainly worked on when speaking in public. I assumed that I did not know certain things that I did know. For example, holding a conversation was unthinkable for me, but on both levels I realized that I could do it.  In relation to blogs, I think it's a very good activity to train writing. I enjoy writing a lot, and I think there is a correct emphasis in this area.  I would like to improve my ability to listen and understand what people  tell me. Many times I don't  understand complete ideas and I'm left with remnants of information. It happens to me especially when someone speaks. One way to improve this aspect would be, perhaps, watching more movies or series in this language. The films that I usually see ...

Happens that my career have a new program studies. But I have the old, because these new program was implanted in 2016, and I entered to the career in 2014. So, I'm going to talk about my program (the new is very good, but if depends of me, I like to change a bit of things). The first is understands how the main subject works. "Workshop" it's around by all the years of the career. It's a practice subject, where you can explore creative things and made short films. The problem is that subject have another two, asociated, linked, and you have no chance if you reprobe one of them: even if you are very good at the others, if you reprobe one, you reprobe all inmediatly, and you have to wait to the next year to take it again. I like too that the programm puts emphasis on experimental cinema. The industrial area is very powerful, but we need some art perspective too. The documentary year is the most free in this way. About the teachers, nothing to say, a...

This time I’m going to write about an experimental and independent filmmaker called James Benning. He’s from United States and has an 40 years career, with more than 50 films. On this post I will comment 3 films of him, the only 3 that I have see. Gain access to see his films is very hard because he’s a very unpopular filmmaker, only known in the experimental cinema circuit. I knew him thanks to an elective class at the University. His personal life is not very important. I’m gonna put the focus on the 3 films that I mentioned. The 3 films have one thing in common: all of are observational. The movies called “13 Lakes”, “Ten Skies” and “L. Cohen”. The first is a 2004 16mm film, placing emphasis on contemplation on all the lakes that appear. We can say that the movie it’s about the introspection that these lakes   gives to the viewer. You can see the movie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAdii2YXZno The second, “Ten Skies” can be watched on YouTube too ( ...

One of the topics that ocuped the media agenda this week was the return of one hundred chileans from Venezuela, in the context of the “humanitary” plan that this goovernment has impulsed. One hundred chileans, and a cat. This post is about the cat. About the cat and the importance that the chileans medias have bring to him. Important medias like CNN Chile puts this title: “100 chileans and a cat returns from Caracas, Venezuela”. Another medias, like Radio Zero, puts the next: “A cat returns to the country from Venezuela”. Some TV programs, puts GC’s that said: “The cat that have been return to the country from Venezuela”. By this notices we could know everything about the cat: his name -Micifuz Oliver-, who’s his owner –a girl who has anxiety, so the cat is part of her treatment- and in what conditions cat travels: unfortunely, the cat was unquiet during all the fly. All of these with images of the cat, like close-ups, per twenty minutes or more, even forgetting the people that...

I would like to study the Film / Video course at CALArts, a film school in California. The reasons why I would like to take the course are basically because of the taste I have acquired recently for experimental cinema. Last semester I took a course at the University that invited me to reflect on the image and its possibilities, beyond the construction of a story. The idea of ​​rehearsing and exploring interests me much more than the idea of ​​having too much control and clarity in relation to the things that I want to film. In that school there are many professors who are active in making films, and they are all at the forefront of experimental cinema.   I would like to go to study in the United States to learn a little more about their culture. There are many prejudices around that country (many of those prejudices make a lot of sense, I do not deny it), but it is interesting to visit a country that has penetrated so deep into the culture of its own. For all of us who...

I would like to film a documentary on Antartida. I would like to live there by some time and see how people lives in that conditions. I would like to do it for fun and curiosity. Maybe I would work around the concept of "isolation". One of the necessary skills would be having a sensitive look to capture the territory and not fall in common places. Maybe I could realize a movie about the landscape, reducing to the minimum the human context. Through the filmed I could show the not-filmed, giving importance to the human footprints more than the humans exactly. Without a doubt it would be a very enriching experience. Being alone some time it's a good idea to reflect and read a lot of books. I really like experimental cinema, so I would aproach the movie from there. I would give more relevance to the form than the subject. I'm not interested on show an history. I'm more interested on show images. The image by the image is a very interesting concept to explore. I ...