Section: Museo BAFICI
Punto de Encuentro [17] BAFICI - Centro Cultural Recoleta - Junín 1930
Room: 10
Sometimes we get distracted and surprised thinking that film history is, more than the history of the uses of techniques, the history of its progress. And in that confusion, the state of the world chooses to see conviction. But film history itself has always left clear that what remained in the marg...
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Section: Museo BAFICI
Punto de Encuentro [17] BAFICI - Centro Cultural Recoleta - Junín 1930
Room: 8
We thank Bafici and the Cultural Recoleta Center for the recognition implied in this exhibition, and DAC for helping us in making it real. But above all, we thank you because you forced us to dig into our archives and look our 20 year-old body of work in the face. You have helped us realize what we...
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Section: Museo BAFICI
Punto de Encuentro [17] BAFICI - Centro Cultural Recoleta - Junín 1930
Room: Espacio Central
“Pelicónicas (film posters)” is a collective experience from 450 designers (teachers and students from the Salomone chair of Graphic Design at the UBA) plus one hundred texts by teachers and researchers from the Fariña, Herke and Speziale chairs at the UBA, which seeks to a...
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Section: Museo BAFICI
Punto de Encuentro [17] BAFICI - Centro Cultural Recoleta - Junín 1930
Room: 1
Mario Monicelli turns 100 years old! And he celebrates in Buenos Aires, the city he visited only once, in 2007, before continuing his trip to Mar del Plata.When we land in the city, Mario fell in love at first sight. He fell right at home: a South American Italy that was multi-ethnic, highbrow, surp...
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Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 2
There are two constants in Wiseman’s films: the world is organized by institutions –public, private, exciting, repugnant– and, at the same time, said institutions organized by groups of people congregated periodically and interminably in order to keep them afloat (it’s hard t...
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Section: Avant-Garde & Genre Competition
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 3
Section: Avant-Garde & Genre Competition
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 7
An intense and moving elegy for the fugaos or Asturian Maquis who were murdered in the Spanish Civil Post-war at the hands of Franco’s repressive forces, Here and in Other Time not only intends to be a political film, but also to work with the forms of cinema in a radically political way. Afte...
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Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 6
One of the (many) problems filmmakers must face when they reach old age is being canonized. Rapidly, regardless of the merits of their work, they tend to become untouchable, and are surrounded by an entourage willing to celebrate their careers (as mediocre as they may have been) leaving aside any ki...
ViewSection: Restored Classics
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 9
The last real earthquake to hit cinema was Blue Velvet. There is much of what noir does best in here: Kyle MacLachlan’s Jeffrey Beaumont slips past the safety rails and hops right into a raging maelstrom of guilt and evil as blithely as any noir protagonist ever did; and Dennis Hopper’s...
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Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 1
The mass murder in 1915 by the Ottomans of the minority Armenian population is still a hugely controversial subject, especially in Turkey where there is resistance to assuming a retrospective burden of genocidal shame. Fatih Akin has made it the starting-point for his first English-language movie. I...
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Section: North Korean Cinema
El Cultural San Martín - Paraná esquina Sarmiento
Room: 1
No different to most other societies, Korea was once governed by princes and kings, and its defined aristocratic class structures forms the basis for Tale of Chun Hyang. The film is an adaptation of a traditional Korean tale of the impossible love between a beautiful young woman born of a nobleman a...
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Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 8
