Alonso Aguilar

Alonso Aguilar is a film critic, audiovisual producer and programmer from San José, Costa Rica. His writings have been featured in Mubi Notebook, photogénie, Cinema Tropical, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and more.

Mentioned Films

Footnotes

Talks Interviews

Renouncing Meanings

Interview with Basim Magdy by Alonso Aguilar

Rethinking, regrouping, and remixing are at the core of Egyptian artist Basim Magdy’s artistic thrust, always looking for new logics of his textural and aural references.

Films On The Circuit

Enlighten

Decaying Rêveries

Review by Alonso Aguilar

More than a photograph of an event, Isabel Medeiros’ Enlighten works as an evocation. It embraces the overwhelming fact that transformation and degradation are inescapable natural processes.

Reads Notes

Contemporary Grammars

Essay by Alonso Aguilar

Several short films in Short Waves Festival’s 2023 international competition question the reactive relationship to our known visual referents that tend to be the norm with digital models and propose a more perceptual use of them, emotive even.

Talks Interviews

Black Fire: Power in Play

Interview with Kevin Jerome Everson& Claudrena N. Harold by Alonso Aguilar

Professors and filmmakers Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold talk about their Black Fire project, an ongoing exploration of Blackness, history and interiority.

Films Now Showing

Vision of Paradise

Mapping The Unfathomable