Research Catalog

Title

El cine quema : Jorge Cedrón / Fernando Martín Peña.

Author

Peña, Fernando M. (Fernando Martín), 1968-

Publication

[Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires] : Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Walsh, Rodolfo J.
• Cedrón, Jorge
• Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (Argentina), publisher, film distributor

Description

• 156 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 cm +
• 3 DVDs (455 min.) : sound, color and black and white ;

Summary

• La vereda de Enfrente : A boy goes with another to lose his virginity to a prostitute on Isla Maciel. The film's simple plot serves as an excuse to make a descriptive essay on this "other world," so close to the European-seeming Buenos Aires.
• El Otro Oficio: This film tells a simple story of an everyday sell-out among a group of workers looking for employment. Cedrón does not limit himself to the simple depiction of the problem, but also seeks to get its causes down on film and understand them. He does this in a stylized way, at times almost expressionistic, playing with the narrative times, the use of voiceover and unusual camera angles.
• Por los Caminos del Libertador: With its abundance of ideas about form, and the audacity of what this film sought to do (follow José de San Martín's life in Europe), many consider this atypical documentary Jorge Cedrón's best film. On the one hand because it describes the Argentine founding father in decidedly revisionist terms; on the other hand because the battle scenes were drawn by Alberto Cedrón based on stills from Nilsson's film, without the latter ever realizing. But the director did not limit himself to artistically subverting the original plan of this film that he was commissioned to make, but also used the money he received to produce OPERATION MASSACRE in secret.
• El Habilitado: Five employees stuck in the basement of a department store in Mar del Plata have a grotesque relationship with each other, each trying to feel better about himself by gaining miserly advantages over the others. The director didn't want to make a realist or autobiographical film, although most of the film is based on Cedrọn's own experiences as an employee at the Los Gallegos store. Rather, his goal was to create a work of raw poetry, based on the contrast between certain deliberately grotesque scenes and others of an absolute asceticism.
• Operación Masacre: Adaptation of Rodolfo Walsh's book of the same name, OPERATION MASSACRE is the reconstruction of the 1956 firing squad executions in José León Suárez. Survivor Julio Tróxler plays himself in the film. This is one of the most important political-militant films in the history of Argentine cinema. It was also the first non-documentary, feature-length film to be conceived, produced and screened underground during the latter stages of the Lanusse dictatorship, and it is estimated that it was seen by one and a half million spectators in that parallel, clandestine circuit.
• Resistir: Something of a schizophrenic film. On the one hand is the interview with Mario Firmenich in exile, filmed as conventionally as possible. On the other, there is the Argentine political history of the 20th century, illustrated with abundant rare archive footage and through the warmer, more sensitive viewpoint of an anonymous militant imagined by Cedrón and Gelman. Julio Cortázar wrote that "There is in this film an admirable collection of images that show with stunning clarity what the repression was like, starting from the first military dictatorships, and the true origin of the violence that the Junta attributed exclusively to the rebels."
• Gotán: Jorge Cedrón's last film, a nostalgic and artistic statement. Cedrón did not explain why he made this film, saying only: "It had to be done." The result is one of joyful creative freedom, a musical collage in which the history of tango and its roots interweave with Argentine political history. A little Buenos Aires street reconstructed in the Ariane Mnouchkine Theatre, an old European who knows how to play all the melodies the bandoneon was designed for, but who doesn't know the tango, a meeting of friends in the workshop of Antonio Seguí, the music of Cuarteto Cedrón, hobbyhorses, and a disconcerted Indian are just some of the many elements that the director brought together in this unique and highly personal work which concludes with the stigmatic words that a dwarf speaks to the Indian: "Come and dance, for one should never lose one's joy!"

Uniform Title

• Habilitado (Motion picture)
• Operación Masacre (Motion picture)
• Resistir (Motion picture)
• Por los senderos del libertador (Motion picture)
• Gotán (Motion picture)

Alternative Title

• Jorge Cedrón
• Hasta la memoria siempre Jorge "El Tigre" Cedron : obra completa restaurada
• Otro oficio.
• Vereda de enfente.

Subjects

• Social problem films
• Documentary films
• Cedrón, Jorge
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Short films
• Film adaptations
• Surrealist films
• Musical films
• Nonfiction films
• Motion picture producers and directors > Argentina > Biography
• Historical films
• Feature films

Genre/Form

• Feature films.
• Historical films.
• Surrealist films.
• Nonfiction films.
• Documentary films.
• Social problem films.
• Musical films.
• Short films.
• Film adaptations.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Note

• Accompanying CD-ROM contains French and English translations of the book.
• Operación Masacre based on the non-fiction novel by Rodolfo Walsh.

With (note)

• Issued with 3 DVDs containing: La vereda de Enfrente, El otro oficio, Por los Caminos del Libertador, El Habilitado, Operación Masacre, Resistir, Gotán.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: IBM PC or compatible computer; Pentium processor or higher; MB RAM; Windows; PDF viewer.

Contents

Disc 1. La vereda de enfrente (15 min.), Argentina 1962, 16mm., Black and white, Dolby Digital 2, Fullscreen (4:3), In Spanish with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles -- El habilitado (78 min.), Argentina 1970, 35mm., color, Dolby Digital 2.0, Widescreen (16:9), In Spanish with optional English, French, Spanish subtitles -- Disc 2. Operación Masacre (110 min.), Argentina 1972, 35mm, color, Dolby Digital 2.0, Widescreen (16:9), In Spanish with optional English, French, Spanish subtitles -- El otro oficio (30 min.), Argentina 1967, 16mm., Black and white, Dolby Digital 2.0, Fullscreen (4:3), In Spanish with optional English, French, Spanish subtitles -- Disc 3. Resistir (70 min.), Argentina 1978, 16mm., color and black and white, Dolby Digital 2.0, Fullscreen (4:3), In Spanish with optional English, French, Spanish subtitles -- Por los senderos del libertador (100 min.), Argentina 1971, 35mm., color, Dolby Digital 2.0, Widescreen (16:9), In Spanish with optional English, French, Spanish subtitles -- Gotán (52 min.), France 1980, 16mm., color, Dolby Digital 2.0, In Spanish and French with optional English, French, and Spanish subtitles.

Call Number

MWES (Cedron, J.) 15-3224

ISBN

• 9789872201876
• 9872201870

OCLC

892577354

Author

Peña, Fernando M. (Fernando Martín), 1968- author.

Title

El cine quema : Jorge Cedrón / Fernando Martín Peña.

Publisher

[Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires] : Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, [2013]

Type of Content

computer program

text

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

unmediated

computer

Type of Carrier

videodisc

volume

computer disc

Digital File Characteristics

video file DVD video all region

System Details

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: IBM PC or compatible computer; Pentium processor or higher; MB RAM; Windows; PDF viewer.

With:

Issued with 3 DVDs containing: La vereda de Enfrente, El otro oficio, Por los Caminos del Libertador, El Habilitado, Operación Masacre, Resistir, Gotán.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Walsh, Rodolfo J. Operación Masacre.

Cedrón, Jorge, film director, filmmaker, screenwriter.

Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (Argentina), publisher, film distributor.

Added Title

Habilitado (Motion picture)

Operación Masacre (Motion picture)

Resistir (Motion picture)

Por los senderos del libertador (Motion picture)

Gotán (Motion picture)

Otro oficio.

Vereda de enfente.

Research Call Number

MWES (Cedron, J.) 15-3224 [Text]

*UTD-3588 [DVD]