1. Roots of Third Cinema

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    Extracted and re-edited from New Cinema of Latin America (Channel Four, 1983). 

  2. "In Buenos Aires the army eradicates villas miseria (urban
    shanty towns) and in their place puts up “strategic hamlets” with town
    planning aimed at facilitating military intervention when the time
    comes. The revolutionary organizations lack specialized fronts not
    only in their medicine, engineering, psychology, and art-but also in
    our own revolutionary engineering, psychology, art, and cinema. In
    order to be effective, all these fields must recognize the priorities of
    each stage: those required by the struggle for power or those demanded by the already victorious revolution."

    ‘Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of Liberation in the Third World’

    Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino

  3. "I make the revolution; therefore, I exist. This is the starting point for the disappearance of fantasy and phantom to make way for living human beings."
    Fernando Solanas and Octavio Gettino (via roxyp)
  4. "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

  5. "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

  6. "The camera is the inexhaustible expropriator of image-weapons; the projector, a gun that can shoot 24 frames a second."
    Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, “Towards a Third Cinema” (via thevirtualself)

  7. lanuitamericaine:

    The Hour of the Furnaces (La hora de los hornos)
    Octavio Getino & Fernando Solanas, 1968

  8. »  Towards a Third Cinema

    cine-de-america-latina:

    Towards a Third Cinema is a cinematic manifesto for the Latin American film movement that started in the 1960s-70s which decries neocolonialism, the capitalist system, and the Hollywood model of cinema as mere entertainment to make money. Third Cinema rejects the view of cinema as a vehicle for personal expression, seeing the director instead as part of a collective; it appeals to the masses by presenting the truth and inspiring revolutionary activism.

    Written by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino  

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