Reading Clementina (2019), Monteoliva’s debut feature film, the authors discuss spectral motherhood and fear in the domestic environment.
Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha
Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha is a film researcher and programmer specialising in Latin American cinema. She conducted postdoctoral research at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, and was Visiting Fellow at the KU Leuven, Belgium, Comenius University, and the Academy of Performing Arts, both in Bratislava, Slovakia. She is the author of Espaços em conflito. Ensaios sobre a cidade no cinema argentino contemporâneo (Intermeios, 2019) and A experiência do cinema de Lucrecia Martel: Resíduos do tempo e sons à beira da piscina (Alameda, 2014. Translation into Spanish: Prometeo, 2020), and co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Lucrecia Martel (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). She currently works as a project manager at the Cultural Section of the Embassy of Brazil in London and is the co-founder of Cinema Mentiré, an itinerant film club showcasing Latin American film in the UK.
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