Blake Simons interviewed Mary Jiménez about her latest film, Fuga (2024), co-directed with Bénédicte Liénard, which focuses on the homophobia inflicted by the Shining Path in the Peruvian Amazon. They speak about fusing documentary and fiction and the importance of putting discrimination on screen.

Film critic Blake Simons speaks with Teddy Williams about his work, in particular his latest feature The Human Surge 3. They touch the topics of creating an atypical queer space on screen, Teddy’s experience directing through a VR headset, the future potentialities and current limitations of VR cinema, and his connection and disconnection from the contemporary Argentine cinema scene.

Matteo Amaral discusses the so-called “Orloff effect”, according to which political and economical changes that take place in Argentina foreshadow those in Brazil.

Darla Timewell reflects on the post-cinematic aesthetics of Argentinian Teddy William’s latest film, The Human Surge 3, which premiered at the ICA in an event organized together with Cinema Mentiré. The film will be showing at the ICA from the 5th of April.

Conversation with Uruguayan filmmaker Alejandro Legaspi, member of Grupo Chaski, the Peruvian filmmaking collective formed in the 1980s.

Antonio Pinto discusses Chilean director Felipe Gálvez’s first feature film, Los colonos / The Settlers (2023), which won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes last year.

Abbey Villasis compiles three poems from Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s Love Poems. Includes versions from the English translation by Donald D. Walsh, as well as the originals in Spanish.

The A*musing Co Lab, performance collective made up by Jamil Nicolle, Gao Shuyi and Rukmini Sircar, presented their site-specific piece last October at the Bloomsbury Festival. Here, they cite their inspirations and reflect on their piece.

Antonio Pinto writes about his encounters with Kleber Mendonça Filho’s films. He focuses particularly on Pictures of Ghost (2023), his last film, and on how, through the Brazilian' director’s work, the spectator can access a world of ghosts.

A short story by Lucas Cornejo Pásara that plays with the point of view of a jealous girlfriend. Original in Spanish and English translation included.

Abbey Villasis traces the connection between Spanish-style bullfighting and the ancient practice of Minoan bull-leaping, exploring the questions this raises today.

Young Mexican photographer Joaquín Castillo talks with Lucas Cornejo Pásara about his work and his path to working with the world’s top brands.

Martín Rejtman, Argentinian filmmaker and writer, whose latest film, La práctica (2023), screened at the LFF last month, talks with Patricio Ghezzi Novak about his work.

Antonio Pinto writes about three films by Argentine director Matías Piñeiro - Viola (2012), La princesa de Francia (2014) and Hermia & Helena (2016)

Argentine writer Hernán Díaz talks with Lucas Cornejo Pásara about Trust, his Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

Daniel Ossorno-Reyes delves into the cultural differences surrounding petty crime in Latin America and Europe

El Cortao’s Aisha Taylor Durán demystifies Ayahuasca tourism and explores its ethics

KCL graduate and El Cortao’ co-founder Henrique Arevalo gives a retrospective on the Venezuelan presidential crisis