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| Introduction & History
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FERDINANDO E. SOLANAS ( Argentina)Solanas, (born Buenos Aires – 1936), is one of
the originators of the pivotal ‘third cinema’ concept. Solanas along with
Octavia Getino demonstrated its practice in the influential La Hora de los hornos.
Third cinema was the product of a very specific context: the world-wide insurrections during the late 1960s. Solanas proposed a cinema which would require active audience participation. Given his concern to produce a cinema of information rather than one of fantasies to be consumed, the obvious path led to the documentary. In Solanas’ writings and cinematic practice, he has provided an alternative and clearly articulated challenge to bourgeois cinema. THE CLOUD 1998, Colour, 35mm, 123 min It’s been raining for a while in Buenos Aires. Modern times have peculiar changes and daily life has undergone a funny sort of involution. Over and above its financial losses, an old independent theatre is threatened with demolition. Amidst dejection and passion, a group of actors says "no"… Music : Gerardo Gandini Cinematography : Juan Diego Solanas |
