Grupo Cine Liberación

Grupo Cine Liberación

The "Grupo Cine Liberación" (The Liberation Film Group) was an Argentine film movement that took place during the end of the sixties. It was founded by Fernando Solanas, Octavio Getino and Gerardo Vallejo (1942-2007). The "Grupo Cine Liberación" became linked to the Peronist Left, and in later years, other films directors ("grupo Realizadores de Mayo", Enrique and Nemesio Juárez, Pablo Szir, etc.) revolved around this activist core [ [http://noticias.kinoki.org/muere-gerardo-vallejo-fundador-de-grupo-cine-liberacion/ Muere Gerardo Vallejo, fundador de Grupo Cine Liberación] , "Noticias de Cine Social", 8 February 2007 es icon] [http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/espectaculos/5-5319-2007-02-07.html Gerardo Vallejo, emblema del cine militante de los ‘60 y ‘70] , "Pagina 12", 7 February 2007 es icon] .

Along with Raymundo Gleyzer's "Cine de la Base" in Argentina, the Brazilian "Cinema Novo", the Cuban revolutionary cinema and the Bolivian film director Jorge Sanjinés, the "Grupo Cine Liberación" was part of the "Tercer Cine" movement Oscar Ranzani, [http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/cultura/7-42538-2004-10-20.html La revolución es un sueño eterno] , "Pagina 12", 20 October 2004 es icon] . The name of "Tercer Cine" (or Third Cine, in an obvious allusion to the Third World) was explicitly opposed to "First World" cinema, that is, Hollywood, and was also contrasted with auteur film, deciding to engage itself more explicitly in the social and political movements .

From his exile in Francoist Spain, Juan Peron sent in 1971 two letters to Octavio Getino, one congratulating him for this work of liberation, and another concerning two documentaries that were to be done with him ("La Revolución Justicialista" and "Actualización política y doctrinaria") .

The graphist Raimundo Ongaro, also founder of the "CGT de los Argentinos" (CGTA) trade-union, was also close to this movement.

Theory and practice

One of the principles of the "Grupo Cine Liberación" was to produce anonymous films, in an endeavour to favorize collective creation processes, to create a collective discourse, and also to protect themselves from political repression. According to Lucio Mufud, the collective authorship movement of the 1960s and 1970s was "among other things, about erasing any authorial mark. It concerned itself, on the one hand, with protecting the militant creators from state repression. But it was also about having their voice coincide with the 'voice of the people.' Lucio Mufud, [http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/espectaculos/subnotas/7408-2455-2007-08-25.html Un llamado a transformar la realidad] , "Pagina 12, 25 August 2007 es icon] " Another similar group included the "Grupo Cine de la Base" (The Base Film Group), which included the film director Raymundo Gleyzer, who produced "Los Traidores" (The Traitors, 1973), and was later "disappeared" during the dictatorship .

Both "Grupo Cine Liberación" and "Grupo Cine de la Base" were especially concerned with Latin American integration, neo-colonialism and advocated the use of violence as one of the alternative possible means against hegemonic power .

"Hora de los hornos" (1968)

In 1968, the Cuban film director Santiago Álvarez collaborated with Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas on the four-hour documentary "Hora de los hornos", about foreign imperialism in South America. The title of the film itself comes from a writing by 19th Century Cuban poet and independence leader José Martí, who proclaimed, in an eponymous manifest, the need to start the independence war against Spain again.

Among the other subjects explored in this film were the musical and cultural scene in Latin America and the dictatorships which gripped the region — at the same time, several Latin American authors, including the Mexican Carlos Fuentes and the Argentine Julio Cortázar, initiated the Dictator Novel genre. The movie was diffused only in alternative circuits, both by choice and by censorship obligations [http://www.segundoenfoque.com.ar/estetica_carencia.htm Entrevista con Alfredo Marino] , by Jairo Straccia, "Segundo Enfoque", May 2003 es icon] .

"Ya es tiempo de violencia" (1969)

In 1969, the film director Enrique Juárez thus anonymously produced "Ya es tiempo de violencia" (Now is the Time for Violence), mainly concerned with the events of the May 1969 "Cordobazo" riots and the assassination of the trade-unionist Augusto Vandor on 30 June, 1969 Ana Bianco, [http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/espectaculos/5-7408-2007-08-25.html La militancia en imágenes] , "Pagina 12", 25 August 2007 es icon] . Other images included those of the massive funerals of Emilio Jáuregui, another trade-unionist shelled three days before Vandor's death during a demonstration in protest of Nelson Rockefeller's (owner of Miramax there) arrival to Argentina .

The film, entirely made clandestinely, criticized Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship and the media's official discourse . "Ya es tiempo de violencia" was thought to have been destroyed in the turmoil of the 1976 coup d'état and the "Dirty War," but a copy of it was in fact stored by the Cuban film institute Icaic . In 2007, the film was brought back to Buenos Aires by Fernando Krichmar, a member of the "Grupo Cine Insurgente" (Insurgent Cine Group), and Aprocinain ("Asociación para el Apoyo Patrimonial Audiovisual y la Cinemateca Nacional") made another copy of it to insure its preservation .

In this film documentary, Enrique Juárez used a multiplicity of voice-overs (among which an anonymous narrator and an anonymous Peronist activist, among others) against censorship exerted by the hegemonic discourse — the voices are in fact those of Juárez himself, the actor Héctor Alterio, etc.

The film itself was almost exclusively composed from media images, with the editing used to contradict the official discourse by using contradictory voices and images (i.e. a civil servant of Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship states that everything is well, contradicted by images showing the "Cordobazo" riots). Furthermore, the voice-over often address itself directly to the spectator, urging him to take action .

"El Camino hacia la muerte del viejo Reales" (1968)

"El Camino hacia la muerte del viejo Reales" was mainly produced by Gerardo Vallejo, and depicted the exploitation of sugarcane workers. Persecuted by Ongania's dictatorship, Vallejo fled to Rome and finished the film there . Although the movie won several awards abroad, it was censored in Argentina in 1972, and diffused in clandestine networks. It only re-appeared legally due to a decree passed by Juan Peron's after his return in 1973 to Argentina . Vallejo returned from exile after Peron's return, but he was again forced into exile after a bomb exploded in his home in December 1974 .

Films

*"Ya es tiempo de violencia" (1969, completely anonymous, produced by Enrique Juárez)
*"La desconocida" (1962), also by Enrique Juárez
*"El Camino hacia la muerte del viejo Reales" (1968, by Octavio Getino, Fernando Solanas and Gerardo Vallejo)

References

See also

*"Grupo Cine de la Base" (The Base Film Group), a similar contemporary group
*"Colectivo Situaciones", modern groups inspired by these collective creation principles
*"Lavaca"
*"Grupo Alavio"
*"AgoraTV
*Films depicting Latin American military dictatorships
*The Dictator Novel
*Underground film

External links

* [http://www.piazzolla.org/centro/solanas/ Interview with Fernando Solanas] (text in English, audio file)


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