Uruguay showing
ÁCRATAS
Virginia Martínez / 73´ / 2000 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
Ácratas narrates the life-story of Miguel Arcángel Roscigno, classified as the most intelligent of the action anarchists, who fought in the River Plate during the 1920s and 1930s. In those convulsive years, there were different violently-opposed tendencies in anarchism.
The methods of struggle and more exactly, the matter of expropriations, divided the movement. There were those who thought that having recourse to crime to finance the actions of the movement discredited the fight for liberty. On the other hand, the "anarquistas expropiadores", as they called themselves were of the opinion that "for as long as we have known that property is theft, the only thieves are land-owners". Roscigno -an "anarquista expropiador"- was a genuine legend in the River Plate. Miguel Arcángel Roscigno was also the companion of José Buenaventura Durruti in Buenos Aires and took
part together with him in a number of raids in the capital.
DIRECTION: Virginia Martínez - SCRIPT: Virginia Martínez - PRODUCTION: Virginia Martínez - CINEMATOGRAPHY: Daniel Cheico - EDITING: Jorge García - SOUND: Álvaro Mechoso - ORIGINAL MUSIC: Hugo Jasa, Carlos Cotelo
HIT
Claudia Bend, Adriana Loeff / 82´/ 2007 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
Hit tells the story of Uruguayan songs that made history. In a story that covers fifty years, the film runs through landmarks in music and of the life of a country which touch on the hearts of those who experienced it - and of those who did not. With the intention of going far beyond mere anecdotes, the film reveals how those songs were made into symbols and survived the passage of time. Together with memories and the confessions of some of the most important figures in national music, Hit brings to our memories the stories of songs that we all know, which move all of us and which, in some cases, helped to change history.
DIRECTION: Claudia Bend, Adriana Loeff - PRODUCTION: Claudia Bend, Adriana Loeff - SCRIPT: Claudia Bend, Adriana Loeff - CINEMATOGRAPHY: Amaral García, Pedro Luque - EDITING: Claudia Bend, Fernando Drömer - SOUND: Daniel Márquez - ORIGINAL MUSIC: Hugo Jasa, Nicolás Molla
Uruguayan Cinema Screening
ÁCRATAS
Virginia Martínez / 73´ / 2000 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
Ácratas narrates the life-story of Miguel Arcángel Roscigno, classified as the most intelligent of the action anarchists, who fought in the River Plate during the 1920s and 1930s. In those convulsive years, there were different violently-opposed tendencies in anarchism.
The methods of struggle and more exactly, the matter of expropriations, divided the movement. There were those who thought that having recourse to crime to finance the actions of the movement discredited the fight for liberty. On the other hand, the "anarquistas expropiadores", as they called themselves were of the opinion that "for as long as we have known that property is theft, the only thieves are land-owners". Roscigno -an "anarquista expropiador"- was a genuine legend in the River Plate. Miguel Arcángel Roscigno was also the companion of José Buenaventura Durruti in Buenos Aires and took
part together with him in a number of raids in the capital.
DIRECTION: Virginia Martínez - SCRIPT: Virginia Martínez - PRODUCTION: Virginia Martínez - CINEMATOGRAPHY: Daniel Cheico - EDITING: Jorge García - SOUND: Álvaro Mechoso - ORIGINAL MUSIC: Hugo Jasa, Carlos Cotelo
AT FIVE O'CLOCK EXACTLY
José Pedro Charlo / 56´ / 2005 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
On 27th June, 1973, the coup d'état took place in Uruguay. The workers and students repudiated it with a general strike of fifteen days, occupying their places of work and schools. This was the largest ever massive and peaceful mobilisation against authoritarianism in Latin America. The documentary shows this action through a double story: that of the direct characters in the mobilization and that of those who recorded it on film.
José Pedro Charlo / 56´ / 2005 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
On 27th June, 1973, the coup d'état took place in Uruguay. The workers and students repudiated it with a general strike of fifteen days, occupying their places of work and schools. This was the largest ever massive and peaceful mobilisation against authoritarianism in Latin America. The documentary shows this action through a double story: that of the direct characters in the mobilization and that of those who recorded it on film.
DIRECTION: José Pedro Charlo - SCRIPT: José Pedro Charlo, Universindo Rodríguez, María Eugenia - PRODUCTION: Universindo Rodríguez - CINEMATOGRAPHY: Álvaro Mechoso - EDITING: Jorge García - SOUND: Álvaro Rivero
APARTE
Mario Handler / 91´/ 2002 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
Aparte is the simple portrait of a group of young inhabitants of the shanty towns o Montevideo, (whom we generally see in the crime pages of the newspaper), filmed by Mario Handler in their ordinary daily lives, with their children, their families, their friends, having fun or being sad. Very objectively, this film breaks with the criteria of Latin American documentary cinema. The author becomes in some way a part of that which is documented, sections of the film were made by the people being filmed themselves; this is not a report whith people who say things to the camera, each action is inconclusive generating a sensation of frustration; the frontiers between the film-maker and the real human beings who are in the images are removed. Those beings (the underprivileged) are part of Uruguayan culture.
DIRECTION: Mario Handler - PRODUCTION: Mario Handler - SCRIPT: Mario Handler - CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mario Handler - EDITING: Mario Handler - SOUND: Daniel Márquez
Mario Handler / 91´/ 2002 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
Aparte is the simple portrait of a group of young inhabitants of the shanty towns o Montevideo, (whom we generally see in the crime pages of the newspaper), filmed by Mario Handler in their ordinary daily lives, with their children, their families, their friends, having fun or being sad. Very objectively, this film breaks with the criteria of Latin American documentary cinema. The author becomes in some way a part of that which is documented, sections of the film were made by the people being filmed themselves; this is not a report whith people who say things to the camera, each action is inconclusive generating a sensation of frustration; the frontiers between the film-maker and the real human beings who are in the images are removed. Those beings (the underprivileged) are part of Uruguayan culture.
DIRECTION: Mario Handler - PRODUCTION: Mario Handler - SCRIPT: Mario Handler - CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mario Handler - EDITING: Mario Handler - SOUND: Daniel Márquez
HIT
Claudia Bend, Adriana Loeff / 82´/ 2007 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
Hit tells the story of Uruguayan songs that made history. In a story that covers fifty years, the film runs through landmarks in music and of the life of a country which touch on the hearts of those who experienced it - and of those who did not. With the intention of going far beyond mere anecdotes, the film reveals how those songs were made into symbols and survived the passage of time. Together with memories and the confessions of some of the most important figures in national music, Hit brings to our memories the stories of songs that we all know, which move all of us and which, in some cases, helped to change history.
DIRECTION: Claudia Bend, Adriana Loeff - PRODUCTION: Claudia Bend, Adriana Loeff - SCRIPT: Claudia Bend, Adriana Loeff - CINEMATOGRAPHY: Amaral García, Pedro Luque - EDITING: Claudia Bend, Fernando Drömer - SOUND: Daniel Márquez - ORIGINAL MUSIC: Hugo Jasa, Nicolás Molla
IDEA
Mario Jacob / 38´/ 1997 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
An inescapable figure from Latin American poetry, Idea Vilariño speaks about her life and work. Her poems, popular song, her desolate vision of a world without God and the commitment accepted with her time make up the universe of creation of a woman who has written the deepest words of love and pain in Uruguayan literature.
Mario Jacob / 38´/ 1997 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
An inescapable figure from Latin American poetry, Idea Vilariño speaks about her life and work. Her poems, popular song, her desolate vision of a world without God and the commitment accepted with her time make up the universe of creation of a woman who has written the deepest words of love and pain in Uruguayan literature.
DIRECTION: Mario Jacob - PRODUCTION: Mario Jacob - CINEMATOGRAPHY: Daniel Rodríguez - EDITING: Daniel Márquez - SOUND: Fabián Oliver
LA MATINÉE
Sebastián Bednarik / 78´/ 2007 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
"Going out in carnival is my life .if I can I go out, and if not, we shall see". This line from Ramón "Cuita" Correa, one of the veterans recruited by Edú Lombardo and Marcel Keoroglián to revive old sounds, rhythms, customs and cadences, reflects the spirit with which the La Matinée Murga went out onto the streets, the stage and the Summer Theatre in February 2004.
DIRECTION: Sebastián Bednarik - SCRIPT: Sebastián Bednarik - PRODUCTION: Danny Jokas, Lucía Gaviglio - CINEMATOGRAPHY: Pedro Luque
Sebastián Bednarik / 78´/ 2007 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
"Going out in carnival is my life .if I can I go out, and if not, we shall see". This line from Ramón "Cuita" Correa, one of the veterans recruited by Edú Lombardo and Marcel Keoroglián to revive old sounds, rhythms, customs and cadences, reflects the spirit with which the La Matinée Murga went out onto the streets, the stage and the Summer Theatre in February 2004.
DIRECTION: Sebastián Bednarik - SCRIPT: Sebastián Bednarik - PRODUCTION: Danny Jokas, Lucía Gaviglio - CINEMATOGRAPHY: Pedro Luque
THE OTHER WAY
Gabriel Szollosy / 56´ / 2007 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
Rodolfo Mederos is a bandoneon player and a leading authority on the art of tango. Born in Buenos Aires and still living there today, the city has always been his muse. The sounds of his bandoneon conjure up musical images of life, evoking glimpses of the hidden corners and turbulent times..
Gabriel Szollosy / 56´ / 2007 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
Rodolfo Mederos is a bandoneon player and a leading authority on the art of tango. Born in Buenos Aires and still living there today, the city has always been his muse. The sounds of his bandoneon conjure up musical images of life, evoking glimpses of the hidden corners and turbulent times..
DIRECTION: Gabriel Szollosy - PRODUCTION: Anna Jancsó, Isabel Iturriagagoitia, Maria Iturriagagoitia - CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nyika Jancsó - EDITING: Steffen Herrmann - SOUND: Martin Sznaider, Georg Obermayer
TRUE WORDS
Ricardo Casas / 54´ / 2004 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
The famous Uruguayan writer, Eduardo Galeano, supplied with his book of the same title -the third part of the trilogy, Memorias del Fuego, which Ronald thrist classified in the New York Times as a "sort of Bible"-, the basis of the picture directed by Birri. For Fernando Birri, an Argentine settled alternately in Rome and Santa Fe (Argentina), directing this film was a dream come true.
This ambitious production was carried out thanks to a high-level international association, prepared for a number of years and coordinated by the Uruguayan, Yvonne Ruocco, with her German-based production company, SURFilms. Among the shareholders are the European cultural channel, ARTE, Cine-Ojo from Argentina, Cinemateca Uruguaya, CREA Audiovision from Germany and Televisión Española (TVE). This film offers a new vision of American history in the course of this century.
The offi cial history, in Birri's view, is a wardrobe in which the powerful keep their old disguises, but the real history is, on the other hand, the living memory that can be breathed in the streets and the fields.
Ricardo Casas / 54´ / 2004 / Uruguay / Betacam SP
The famous Uruguayan writer, Eduardo Galeano, supplied with his book of the same title -the third part of the trilogy, Memorias del Fuego, which Ronald thrist classified in the New York Times as a "sort of Bible"-, the basis of the picture directed by Birri. For Fernando Birri, an Argentine settled alternately in Rome and Santa Fe (Argentina), directing this film was a dream come true.
This ambitious production was carried out thanks to a high-level international association, prepared for a number of years and coordinated by the Uruguayan, Yvonne Ruocco, with her German-based production company, SURFilms. Among the shareholders are the European cultural channel, ARTE, Cine-Ojo from Argentina, Cinemateca Uruguaya, CREA Audiovision from Germany and Televisión Española (TVE). This film offers a new vision of American history in the course of this century.
The offi cial history, in Birri's view, is a wardrobe in which the powerful keep their old disguises, but the real history is, on the other hand, the living memory that can be breathed in the streets and the fields.
DIRECTION: Ricardo Casas - SCRIPT: Ricardo Casas - PRODUCTION: Yvonne Ruocco,
Jordi Rediu, Norbert Llaràs - CINEMATOGRAPHY: Daniel Rodríguez, Pedro Luque, Joan Babiloni - EDITING: Guillermo Casano - SOUND: Daniel Yafalián, Licio M. Oliveira - ORIGINAL MUSIC: Carlos Da Silveira