scholarly journals Entre la tierra y el mar: la búsqueda de los orígenes en el cine latinoamericano / Between earth and sea: the search of origins in Latin American cinema

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana Flores
2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Isabel Seguí

Beatriz Palacios’s instrumental role in the Ukamau group has been largely ignored by film historiography and criticism. The authorial persona of her comrade and husband, Jorge Sanjinés, has eclipsed Palacios’s work and ideas. Her erasure is due to the perspectives chosen to analyze Ukamau (male-centered auteurist and formalist approaches) and to the almost exclusive use of the voice of Sanjinés (interviews, essays, and films interpreted in an authorial key) to construct the group’s history. Ignoring the contribution and importance of Palacios’s work and not accounting for her share in the authorship of the films made during the years they lived and worked together impedes a correct understanding of the complexity of the production context and the amplitude of the contribution of Ukamau to Latin American cinema. While her work as a producer is increasingly recognized, delving into her roles as a disseminator of political cinema in alternative circuits, evaluator of the impact of the movies on the popular classes, and documentary director completes the portrait of her all-encompassing life and career. En gran medida, el papel instrumental de Beatriz Palacios en el grupo Ukamau ha sido ignorado por la historiografía y la crítica cinematográficas. La persona autoral de su camarada y esposo, Jorge Sanjinés, ha eclipsado la obra e ideas de Palacios. Dicha eliminación se debe a las perspectivas elegidas para analizar Ukamau (enfoques y formalistas) y al uso casi exclusivo de la voz de Sanjinés (entrevistas, ensayos y películas interpretadas en clave autoral) para construir la historia del grupo. Ignorar la contribución e importancia del trabajo de Palacios, así como su participación en la autoría de las películas realizadas durante los años que vivieron y trabajaron juntos, impide una correcta contribución de Ukamau al cine latinoamericano. Mientras que su trabajo como productora es cada vez más reconocido, ahondar en su labor como divulgadora de cine político en circuitos alternativos, evaluadora del impacto de las películas en las clases populares y directora de documentales, completa debidamente retrato de su vida y carrera.


Author(s):  
Marco Franzoso

Fernando Birri (1925-2017) was a puppeteer, writer, artist, director, cinema theorist and teacher. The intellectual from Santa Fe has made syncretism and eclecticism the trademarks of his art. After completing his studies in Italy in 1956, he went back to his birthplace Santa Fe where he founded the Instituto de Cinematografía, the first cinema academy of the country. With his work and academic activity Birri redefined the function of Cinema, transforming it into an educational instrument for the creation of a Latin-American social self-awareness. Birri has revolutionised South-American Cinema, to the extent that he has been named ‘Padre del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano’ (Father of the new Latin-American Cinema). This paper does not claim to be an exhaustive analysis of Birri’s work. It aims instead to offer an entry point to awake the interest about the first part of his production, in order to screw up some point for a future investigation.


Author(s):  
Sofía Ruiz Alfaro

<p align="left"><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>Este trabajo estudia la representación fílmica de la empleada doméstica en <em>Las dependencias</em> (Lucrecia Martel, 1999), telefilm dedicado a la escritora argentina Silvina Ocampo. Este documental es pionero dentro del cine latinoamericano contemporáneo por el lugar central que la doméstica ocupa como sujeto femenino complejo e idiosincrático, un protagonismo inexistente en el cine del siglo pasado. A través del análisis de los testimonios de las empleadas, de los espacios y objetos domésticos y de la intertextualidad con el cuento de Ocampo <em>Las vestiduras peligrosas</em>, exploro la representación de las diferencias de clase, la dinámica de poder en la relación afectiva entre criada-señora y las diferentes estrategias de resistencia que hacen de la empleada un sujeto con voz y agencia propia.</p><p align="left"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This article studies the filmic representation of the female domestic worker in <em>Las dependencias</em> (Lucrecia Martel, 1999), a film about the Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo. This is a pioneer documentary in contemporary Latin American cinema based on the centrality given to the housekeeper as a complex and idiosyncratic character, a portrayal not found in 20<sup>th</sup> century Latin American cinema. Through the analysis of the female workers’ testimonies, domestic places and objects, and the intertextuality with Ocampo’s short story <em>Las vestiduras peligrosas</em>, we explore the representation of class differences, the power dynamics and the affective dimensions found in the servant-mistress relationship, and the strategies of resistance that make the domestic worker a subject with a voice and agency of her own.</p>


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