Maíra Mello
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Maíra Mello
“She was my champion, she was my archive. She had taken the utmost care to preserve the evidence of my existence and growth, capturing me in images, saving all my documents and possessions.”
– Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
Sometimes when films are loaded with music, it disconnects you from being attuned to something very simple, very evident—light, nature, sound, voices. When this is happening in places that are empty and mostly quiet, you enjoy it all the more.
Rafa Sales Ross • In Another Country: Isabelle Huppert on finding the language of emotion in Hong Sang-soo’s A Traveler’s Needs • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
... See more“Agora moramos em outro lugar, numa cidade bem diferente e maior: e, se nos encontramos e falamos de nossa cidade, falamos sem nos queixarmos de tê-la deixado e dizemos que agora já não poderíamos viver lá. No entanto, quando voltamos para lá, basta atravessar o átrio da estação e caminhar na neblina das avenidas para nos sentirmos em casa; e a
... See more“A lógica da caixa de fotos é diferente, quase oposta à do álbum. Álbum é arrumação, sequência. Caixa é anarquia. Quando folheio um livro de fotografias ou passo os dedos pelas páginas muito duras, plastificadas com os retratos de alguém, quase me esqueço de que tudo ali é montagem, fragmento de uma história maior – o breve capítulo de um
“What they lacked in high culture, they made up for by spending their hard-earned money on the finest of delicacies. My childhood was rich with flavor—blood sausage, fish intestines, caviar. They loved good food, to make it, to seek it, to share it, and I was an honorary guest at their table.”
– Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
David Lynch on the limitations of language:
“Cinema is a language. It can say things—big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not always good with words. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words. But cinema is its own language. And with it you can say so many things,... See more
Filmmaking and Cinema
cinema is also a language in a way, and I think the main language we experience is the one of cinema. I believe I could make a movie with someone who doesn’t speak a single language that I would understand but, because cinema is a language of its own, we would connect in the best possible way.
Rafa Sales Ross • In Another Country: Isabelle Huppert on finding the language of emotion in Hong Sang-soo’s A Traveler’s Needs • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
I make films to fill my time. If I had the strength to do nothing, I would do nothing. It is only because I haven’t the strength to do nothing that I make films.