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Pacho Velez

“I was particularly intrigued by the “doubleness” of acting—actors’ studied non-attention to their audience. This interest carried over into Manakamana—I’m watching the subjects’ awareness of their world, and how it shifts to acknowledge the passing landscape, other passengers, and private thoughts, before occasionally, obliquely returning to the camera, which is so clearly staring at them yet is never explicitly addressed.”

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    Realm of Satan

    REALM OF SATAN

    SCOTT CUMMINGS United States, 2024

    Papier-mâché animal heads and occult illusionism shake hands with garden-variety domestic routines in this mischievous, surprisingly colorful documentary. At once prayerful and playful, the film’s access-all-areas vignettes illuminate the motley world of modern-day Satanists by fire-juggling light.

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