Viennale 2019: Liberation and Squalor

I had been waiting years to see Sílvia das Fadas' movies. Whatever the circumstance, I knew it would be a waiting game. By implicitly "limiting" her audience in only showcasing the work in 16mm, Fadas gives her movies a second life. She puts the brakes on the consumption machine. Perhaps fewer people will see them. Perhaps. "Accessibility" itself is a vague, even dubious premise in a rarefied festival world dominated by powerful distributors with the means to withhold movies for different audie...