clara miranda scherffig, Author at cléo https://cleojournal.com/author/cmscherffig/ a journal of film and feminism Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:35:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 A Conversation on Summer 1993 with Director Carla Simón https://cleojournal.com/2017/12/19/conversation-summer-1993-director-carla-simon/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:29:35 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=2828 Season of sun, idle days and backless dresses, summer is a period of carnival, rebellion and vacation where time and space are turned upside-down, offering unique opportunities to experiment and develop. As such, summer provides an ideal backdrop for coming-of-age films like Summer 1993 (originally titled Estiu 1993), the first feature-length film by Carla Simón, […]

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]]> Mad Love in the City: The Safdies’ Heaven Knows What https://cleojournal.com/2016/12/15/mad-love-in-the-city-the-safdies-heaven-knows-what/ Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:48:21 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=1759 During a location scout in New York’s Diamond District, filmmaker Josh Safdie noticed 19-year-old Arielle Holmes in the subway and was struck by her “gravitational pull.”[i] He would go on to cast Holmes, who at the time was homeless and addicted to heroin, as the lead in Heaven Knows What (2014), the third feature-length film […]

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