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"In the meantime, there exists
our culture and their culture, our cinema and their cinema. Because
our culture is an impulse towards emancipation, it will remain in existence until emancipation is a reality: a culture of subversion which
will carry with it an art, a science, and ‘a-cinema of subversion."Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of Liberation in the Third World’
Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino
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"The models of production, distribution, and exhibition
continued to be those of Hollywood precisely because, in ideology and
politics, films had not yet become the vehicle for a clearly drawn differentiation between bourgeois ideology and politics. A reformist policy, as manifested in dialogue with the adversary, in coexistence, and
in the relegation of national contradictions to those between two supposedly unique blocs-the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A.-was and is unable to produce anything but a cinema within the System itself."‘Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of Liberation in the Third World’
Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino