Fernando Birri“The role of cinema…consists of manufacturing films reflecting the objective conditions in which the struggling peoples are developing, i.e., films which bring about dis-alienation of the colonized peoples at the same time as they contribute sound and objective information for the peoples of the entire world, including the oppressed classes of the colonizing countries.” So declared The People’s Cinema Committee Number One at the Third World Filmmakers Meeting in Algiers in December, 1973. The committee consisted of such Third World filmmakers—among them, the “father” of cinema in Argentina, Fernando Birri., whose work is the subject of a recent retrospective at Brooklyn’s Spectacle Theater, entitled “Cosmic, Raving, Lumpen Cinema: The Films of Fernando Birri.”Fernando Birri developed a pure cinematic system that communicated the experience and feelings of a people, following his interest in cities, indigenous life, and living conditions. His moral convictions would remain...
- 7/25/2018
- MUBI
“Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.”—Fidel CastroTen years in the making, almost forty in clandestine obscurity, Fernando Birri's Org (1967-1978) had almost disappeared after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and resurfaced for the first time, in its legitimate and restored form, at this year's Berlinale where it was screened in Forum. A hallucinatory deluge of colors, sounds and syncopated reveries, Org is an onomatopoeic film where the aesthetic and political tensions of a decade coalesce into an unresolved crucible of psychedelic militancy. The cinema of Dziga Vertov and Guy Debord is projected through the canvases of Roy Lichtenstein, social realism is supplanted by a third worldly modernism. Of the many semiotic victims strewn along the film's path is the convulsive plot which remains illegible throughout and yet alludes to an archetypal structure that is undermined at its very basis. The festival helpfully described...
- 3/6/2017
- MUBI
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