Photo-Essay: Images of the Itinerary of the Group Cine Liberacion and “Third Cinema”
By Framework 62.1 Guest Editors Jonathan Buchsbaum and Mariano Mestman
“The proposal of Third Cinema from the group Cine Liberación has had a broad impact on world political cinema since the end of the 1960s. Of course there were many films, texts, and filmmakers in those years associated with committed political cinema, a cinema of intervention, or militant cinema, throughout the world, with more or less affinity with Third Cinema and/or other experiences with similar names such as Cinema of the Third World, Third Worldist cinema or Tricontinental cinema. Nonetheless, the Argentine documentary The Hour of the Furnaces (June 1968), paired with the manifesto “Towards a Third Cinema” (October 1969) by Fernando Solanas (1936–2020) and Octavio Getino (1935–2012), continue to stand out as pre-eminent exemplars of political filmmaking and theory of political film. The manifesto is the best-known document of the group Cine Liberación, in which writer/filmmaker militants Getino and Solanas laid out the principles of their proposal of three types of cinema and of “cine-acción” (film action).
“…In this Photo-Essay, the many images include more specific references to the history of the film and the manifesto since they first appeared in 1968/1969 to 1979.”
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