Rômulo Moraes is a Brazilian writer, sound artist and ethnographer. PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at City University of New York (CUNY, Graduate Center) with a Fulbright/CAPES Scholarship, he holds a Masters in Culture and Communication from UFRJ. He is the author of “Casulos” (Kotter, 2019) and has worked and taught at The New Centre for Research & Practice. Currently, he’s interested in phenomenologies of imagination, post-mediatic maximalism, the entwinement of pop and experimental, and the cosmopoetics of crate digging.
Articles
Recovering Dreams: Studio Ghibli, Avatar & Manifestations of the Unattainable
“It was in the scenario of the dream that we first received, as children, the lesson that things can be other than how they manifest” Vicente Ferreira da Silva “These dreams, it is necessary to inhabit them in order to convince ourselves they were ours” Gaston Bachelard “Dreams burn / but in ashes are gold”… Read More »
The Impossibility of Cinema: Intertwinings of Pre & Post Cinema in Contemporary Art
It no longer makes sense, wrote Anne-Marie Duguet (2009), to search for the absolute essence of cinema, since all its original aspects have become mutable, i.e., those aspects that had defined it in the past. With the hyper-aceleration of the co-evolution of cinematographic techniques, most of the essentialist demarcations about the nature of cinema do… Read More »