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TOWARDS A THIRD CINEMA: NOTES AND EXPERIENCES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CINEMA OF LIBERATION IN THE THIRD WORLD (Argentina, 1969)

"This profoundly influential manifesto, which coins the term Third Cinema, lays out Solanas and Getino’s strategy in making their groundbreaking La hora de los hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces, Argentina, 1968). They position Third Cinema in contra-distinction to Hollywood fi lm (First Cinema) and European “waves” and art cinema, including cinema novo (Second Cinema). They give priority to the documentary as a form of cinema that allows for social and political analysis and transformation, calling it the main basis of revolutionary fi lmmaking. They set out to transform not only what kinds of images appear on the screen but also the ways in which moving images are distributed and screened in Latin America, arguing for exhibition practices that lie outside the dominant, capitalist modes of spectatorship. As Jonathan Buchsbaum has demonstrated, Solanas and Getino did not mean for this manifesto to be static; as such they revised it over the years, adapting it to political changes and to what they discovered through their collective Cine Liberación and through screenings of Hour of the Furnaces throughout Latin America." (Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures, a Critical Anthology, 2014, Scott MacKenzie)

We are not here to make anthropological films. We are working to change the world.

#latin american cinema #60s #70s #radical politics #third cinema #towards a third cinema #toward a third cinema #radical cinema #revolutionary cinema #argentinian cinema #fernando solanas #octavio getino #grupo cine liberación #documentary is never neutral #to read #cinema resource #politics resource #cinema texts #politics texts

final paragraph from rasha salti's "critical nationals: the paradoxes of syrian cinema" [2006]. she was RIGHT ON THE NOSE, describing how the democratization of cinematic resources will usher a new dawn of agency for arab filmmakers. this was years before the arab spring.

#rasha salti #quoted in a upcoming essay of mine #syrian cinema #arab spring #radical cinema #arab cinema

"Of all African film directors, Sembene is the first to confer value to images." Med Hondo

#ousmane sembene #radical cinema #african cinema #lit #profile piece

12/1/21

This is the official promotional poster for the final film

#assignments #writing #radical cinema #experimental film #student filmmaker

UPDATE

11/21/21

I have edited all versions of the final cut of this film. I now have three different exports, two with burned in captions, 1 without captions.

In this edit, I took out some images because it slowed down the story progression and it ate up time. The actual photos are left up on the instagram account.

I added some ambient music I really liked that I found on YouTube Audio Library and I thought fit with the overall theme of the film and it plays quietly in the background.

I fixed some other things, such as timing of the photos and replaced some of the poetry book photos with other shorter poems.

I added the explanation of the film to end, right after the title screen. I purposefully left the explanation vague.

I currently don’t have a lot of time in between today’s class (11/23) and next week’s class (11/30) because I will be going home for Thanksgiving and I do not have access to Adobe Premiere Pro at home. I will have a small amount of time to do any small edits or re-exports before screenings if need be.

I believe if I had to, I could submit to screenings this week because I am happy with my export and it hits all the audio specs required.

I plan on submitting my film early enough that I can print the receipt and be one of the first in line for choosing screening times at FVASA.

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11/16/2021

UPDATE

A 3rd version of the rough draft of the film has been edited, and this week I plan on adding the final clip to the edit. I also plan on editing in closed captions and preparing the film for screenings. I have also started the official posting on the instagram account, following the schedule I had laid out in a previous post.

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UPDATE

11/8/2021

The film will be titled “It’s a Cold Day” based off of the original script title from my writing the short class.

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