La visión contracultural de Raymundo Gleyzer y México.

• In Event: Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Counter-Cultural Movements in Mexico: the sixties and seventies

Abstract

In this talk I focus on The Frozen Revolution (1970), a documentary by Argentinean filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer. The question is if this documentary promotes a countercultural political and cinematic imagination and a countercultural stand. I explore Gleyzer’s agency with respect to Argentinean film. Specifically, I compare Gleyzer’s Cine Base to Solanas’ Cine Liberación with regard to Gleyzer’s stand vis-à-vis peronismo and popular movements. I also inquire into the conditions in which this documentary was filmed and wonder if the precariousness of film production should be considered as an integral element of Gleyzer’s philosophy of filmmaking. I also take into account Gleyzer’s dialogue with Mexican cinema of “lo mexicano” by focusing on his appropriation of the visual archive of the Mexican Revolution. Through techniques of montage, Gleyzer compresses three different temporal planes: the Revolution, Tlaltelolco 68, and Luis Echeverría’s electoral campaign. Lastly, I discuss the scope of Gleyzer’s film and political project and the meaning of his concept of Latin America and revolution beyond Mexico.

Author

• Adela E Pineda-Franco, Boston University