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The Chilean Patricio Guzmán, in 1968 filmed “Notes on torture and other ways of dialogue” as a second-year practice in the EOC (Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía).
It is a denouncing piece that plays with the forms of advertising to denounce the repressive brutality of the Latin American governments but also the inaction of a certain part of the left.Read More »
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Piece of industrial cinema about the Basque Worker’s Credit Union.Read More »
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Sculptures for a Landscape (1975) is about the sculptures that were finalists in the International Sculpture Competition for the Mediterranean Highway. The documentary presented several complications during its production: it was very difficult to frame the sculptures due to their large size and the outdoor filming was highly conditioned by the weather. Medrano always had very small budgets, so her team usually consisted of herself, a camera assistant and a sound engineer, and they could not count on cranes or other materials that would have facilitated the filming. So this work was a constant exercise in ingenuity on the part of the director.Read More »
An indoor game where a couple come to the conclusion after doing and saying many things, that the only way out is anarchy.
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Padrós’ films have a clear personal character and they maintain a kind of narrative, with strong ironic and critical overtones. In his earlier films his criticisms were mostly directed against the false progressive attitudes that were common among certain groups of the young at that time, and also towards the boring transcendental themes that were fashionable then (non-communication, alienation, sexual repression, ideological fashions, cultural mythologies. . .)Read More »
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Alice is born in a country that is dead. Later, her innocence will be manipulated by ideologies of moment.
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Alice Has Discovered the Napalm Bomb is a 1969 film drawing loose inspiration from Alice in Wonderland. It combines a soundtrack including Cream and Tuli Kupferberg, with scenes shot in Terrassa’s cemetery, to express a protest against American imperialism and the Vietnam War.Read More »
A lonely, religious, older woman meets a strange girl in a graveyard. A young woman named Anabel mistakes a poor woman for her deceased mother. The woman, who shares an uncanny physical resemblance to the dead mother, accepts her role, since it represents a social advancement for her. However, a cousin of Anabel’s interferes with the aim of taking over the inheritance.
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In The Witch Hunt a national-Catholic religious college whose mission is to train militants and future leaders of society. Their “lifestyle” is explained by the Spiritual Father: “God, by creating us, did not endow us all equally: He gave some more and others less in admirable diversity” .
The students are the privileged, chosen by God for His Glory and to perpetuate that “admirable diversity” that denies class struggle. A dark incident occurs in the toilets. The protagonists they are thirteen year old children and the ideology of the school maintains that “chastity comes from caste and we cannot allow sin to take root among us. ” The chasing
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A humorously distorted version of the life of Shirley Temple, and described by its director as a terrorist musical. Shirley Temple sets off for the Emerald City to tell the Wizard that she is upset that Judy Garland has been selected for the role of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. On this trip she is accompanied by a group of characters who make reference to a fragmented, bipolar society. The film was begun as Franco was ill and completed after his death, and makes reference to the oppression of Spain during this period.Read More »
Los días perdidos’ was a 40-minute medium-length film about a Spanish emigrant woman working in Paris who returns to Spain after the death of her father. The succession of certain events makes her aware of the uprooting of her entire sentimental life.Read More »