Jorge Giannoni

Jorge Gianonni, Filmmaker, bonvivan, dadaist, extravagant. One of the milestones of his career on film was his collaboration in Raymundo Gleyzer’s "La tierra quema", shot in Northeastern Brazil. Also in Brazil, he collaborated with Glauber Rocha in his "Terra em transe" (Land in Anguish). Gianonni studied at the Centro de Cinema Sperimentale in Rome and worked next to Federico Fellini in his film "Roma". As a RAI correspondent in Paris, Gianonni witnessed the events of May 1968. Within that context he concluded his avant-garde underground film "Molotov Party", of which there are no copies available today. He also produced and directed "Palestina, otro Vietnam" (Palestine, another Vietnam) and "Las vacas sagradas" (The Holly Cows), about the economic policies of the Argentine dictatorship ).

Within a context of great political agitation, Giannoni returned to Argentina in 1974. In Buenos Aires, he created the Instituto de Cine del Tercer Mundo [Third World Film Institute] , which was then integrated with Raymundo Gleyzer’s "Cine de la Base" [Cinema of the People] . Shortly thereafter the University of Buenos Aires was pressured by the government of Isabel Perón, the Institute was closed down and he had to leave the country for Peru and then Cuba. He resided in Cuba until his return to Argentina in 1984. He died in Buenos Aires in 1995.