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Carlos Valladares

Carlos Valladares is a writer, critic, and PhD student in the departments of film and media studies and history of art at Yale University. He has a column on film for Gagosian Quarterly and has appeared in n+1, the San Francisco Chronicle, Film Comment, and MUBI Notebook.

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The Sequel to Her Dreams: Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kobo Abe’s Ako

Few films have captured the recklessness and melancholy of youth more vividly than this underappreciated short film, made the same year as Teshigahara’s widely acknowledged masterpiece, Woman in the Dunes.

By Carlos Valladares

Features— Mar 12, 2021