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Gilberto Perez

Gilberto Perez teaches at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York and is the author of The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium.

From the London Review dated 1 April 2004

Self-Illuminated

  • Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70 by Colin MacCabe

“Godard and Miéville put together Ici et ailleurs (1976) out of pieces from Jusqu’à la victoire, a militant film about the Palestinian situation . . . it conveys on Godard’s part an unearned sense of being let down by the Palestinians on screen; like his revolutionism, his disillusionment with revolution has something brattish about it. When MacCabe later ‘asked him what he thought of politics’, Godard ‘mimed injecting a huge syringe into his arm’ and replied ‘Some people take drugs, some people take politics.’” [ read more . . . ]

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 not available in archive So Close to the Monster · 22 June 2000

  • On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture by Louis Pérez Jr.

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