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MAXIMA Film Review (Originally Published in PTP Magazine in 2020)
MAXIMA Film Review — Fighting for Indigenous Peoples Worldwide https://www.picturethispost.com/maxima/ MAXIMA begins with stunning views of the sweeping Peruvian highlands. Aerial footage takes viewers through the Andean mountainside with clear blue lakes and lush forests. Daylight streams through wispy, low hanging cirrus clouds while birds sing in chorus with orchestral music. After scenic naturistic establishing shots, we encounter a pensive native woman whose face is lit

Camille Aguilar


The Squat (NOVA Fronteir Film Festival) Review (Originally published in PTP Magazine in 2020)
Nova Frontier Film Festival Presents THE SQUAT – Immigration Means Survival https://www.picturethispost.com/nova-frontier-film-festival-presents-the-squat-review/ Visit Latin America, the Middle East, and the African Diaspora through Nova Frontier Film Festival Films We first read the words of Warsan Shire on a simple black and white title card –“No one leaves home unless home is a mouth of a shark,” and fear the imagination of 50 rows of razor sharp teeth closing in. Slowly

Camille Aguilar


Waiting For the Barbarians Film Review (originally published in PTP Magazine in 2021)
WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS Film Review — Who Are the Savages https://www.picturethispost.com/waiting-for-the-barbarians-review/ Waiting for the Barbarians opens with arid grasslands encompassed by the snow-tipped mountain ranges of Central Asia. Situated on this infertile land is an adobe settlement. Napping guards, clothed in the tones of their sand-cloaked surroundings, line the battlements of the town’s gate. Inside the adobe buildings, an old man with a gentle countenanc

Camille Aguilar


Affluenza Film Review (originally published in PTP Magazine 2020)
OVID.tv Presents AFFLUENZA Review — High Consumption Society https://www.picturethispost.com/ovid-tv-presents-affluenza-review/ Before coming to our title screen, filmmaker John de Graaf opens with a scene from a spoof of a once popular soap opera Lives of Our Days. A patient in a surgical gown and comically ornate jewelry begs her doctor for a pill to fix her disaffection. Regretfully, the doctor informs his patient that she is suffering from affluenza; ironically calling it

Camille Aguilar


Umps, plumps and mumps (Dr Seuss Parody) (written 2020)
One snuffleump Two snuffleump Red snuffleump Dead snuffleump Sour snufflegrump Fairly hairy snufflerump Open carry scuffleump. Crystal methheleump Say! What a lot of Sickly snuffleump there are! Yes. Some have been around, And some are 6 feet underground. Some have teeth And most do not. You see, we see While just about nothing is uniformal here, Death in Qwertyuiop is rather normal. Some are sad, like the one with no mom or dad. Some are thin. And some are globular! From

Camille Aguilar

