The journal of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) published a new dossier or their online platform (SCMS+) called “Short Attention Span Criticism.” Edited by Cara Dickason, Rebecca M. Gordon, and Pamela Robertson Wojcik, “Short Attention Span Criticism” is a collection of experimental short-form writings on film and media reflecting on film and media during the Covid-19 pandemic. “The Dreamed Republic: Your Brazil has Ended, and Mine Never Existed” is the first piece in the collection, and it is a conversation between film scholar Juliano Gomes and me on Grace Passô’s Republic (2020), a short film commissioned by Instituto Moreira Salles. This extraordinary short film is now available with English subtitles at IMS.
