INVESTIGADORES
CAMPO javier Alberto
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Human Rights Argentine Cinema: The Nationality matters
Autor/es:
CAMPO, JAVIER
Lugar:
Auckland
Reunión:
Seminario; National Cinemas, Transnational Productions: Does Nationality Matter?; 2016
Institución organizadora:
New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies. Faculty of Arts. The University of Auckland.
Resumen:
?We Argentines are right and human?, said de facto president Jorge Rafael Videlain 1979, inresponse to the frequent challenges to his policies of repression. At that samemoment, filmmakers were initiating the prolific task of creating a cinema ofdenunciation or testimony in favour of respect for Human Rights in Argentina.The dictator?s funny phrase ? which under the circumstances was horrific ?would echo in the brains of many Argentine filmmakers still in exile. Such wasthe case of Humberto Ríos, who filmed ThisVoice Among Many (Esta voz entremuchas, 1979) in Mexico. This documentary includes testimonies byprisoners, torture victims and relatives of the disappeared, and was made at atime when there was still hope that they might be rescued alive. Human rights cinema in Argentina can be divided intothree broad categories, this is the paper's aim.
