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Never Ending Wonder is a lyrical and rigorous exploration of the sensorial, philosophical, and affective territories of contemporary cinema. With a keen eye for nuance and a broad intellectual foundation, Julio Bezerra draws connections between film and phenomenology, weaving together the thought of Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Bazin, and Ayfre with the work of filmmakers such as Claire Denis, Pedro Costa, Tsai Ming-liang, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

This is not a conventional work of film theory. Rather, it is an evocative meditation on cinema’s capacity to transform perception, dissolve dualisms, and bring forth new modes of being in the world. Moving beyond narrative and representation, Bezerra engages with a cinema of atmosphere, embodiment, and affect—a cinema that touches, disorients, and embraces, inviting the viewer into an experience that is both intimate and open-ended.

Written with poetic clarity and philosophical depth, Never Ending Wonder invites us to reimagine how we watch, think, and feel cinema. It speaks not only to scholars and cinephiles but to all who believe in the power of film to challenge, console, and awaken. This is a passionate, personal, and intellectually generous inquiry into a cinema that does not aim to explain the world, but to encounter it, feel it, and remain in awe of its infinite becoming.

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Julio Bezerra is a film critic, curator, and professor in the Audiovisual Program and the Graduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Brazil. He has completed postdoctoral research at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Columbia University. Bezerra is the author of two Portuguese books—A eterna novidade do mundo and Documentário e Jornalismo—and has curated retrospectives on filmmakers such as Abel Ferrara, Samuel Fuller, and Jean Renoir. His writing has appeared in leading film publications in Brazil, and he also directs and produces for film and television.

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