Latin American political cinema 1/6/2011 al 1/7/2011
PROGRAMME
Political cinema accompanies revolutionary processes in Latin America almost without exception. Precisely Histories of the Revolution was the first feature film to be made in Cuba after the triumph of 1959. In relation to this process, a large number of short, medium and feature films, fictional and documentaries appear, which would begin to populate international festivals as to highlight the essential relationship between art and politics. The collective nature of cinema and the power of its images became the preferred platform for activists, politicians and artists to spread the ideology and irresistible force of revolutionary times. A review of cinema since the 1960s only confirms the possibilities of cinema to account for authentic cultural transformations.
Class 1: Argentina
- The influence of Italian Neorealism in Fernando Birri's cinema: Tire dié (1960) and Los inundados (1962)
Class 2: Cuba
- The Revolution of January 1959 seen from fiction and documentary: Santiago Álvarez and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.
Class 3: Bolivia and Brazil
- The Ukamau Group in Bolivia: Jorge Sanjinés
- Brazilian cinema novo: Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Glauber Rocha
Class 4: Argentina
- Contemporary Argentine documentary makers post dictatorship: Albertina Carri, María Inés Roqué, Andrés Habegger, Nicolás Prividera.
NATALIA TACCETTA: Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. She is a PhD student in Social Sciences at the same university where she works on a project that links the philosophy of history and cinema from the perspective of Walter Benjamin. She is a graduate of the National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC-INCAA) and works as a film teacher in Image and Sound Design (UBA) and in the Audiovisual Arts career (IUNA) with a special interest in the cinematographic representations’ political dimension.
