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Lifetime Achievement Award of 24th IFFK 2019 goes...: Lifetime Achievement Award of 24th IFFK 2019 goes to Fernando Solanas, avant-garde, anti-colonial filmmaker from Argentina. Fe...
Fernando Solanas, the Argentine filmmaker and a
pioneer of the Third Cinema movement, will be presented the lifetime
achievement award at the 24th edition of IFFK.The award carries a purse of
Rs5 lakh. Five films by Solanas, which chronicle the resistance against
neo-colonialism in Latin America, will be screened .
Fernando “Pino” Solanas is, on the strength of the
film La hora de los hornos (The Hour of the Ovens,
1968) and the accompanying manifesto “Hacia un tercer cine” (“Towards a Third
Cinema”), the Latin American filmmaker most recognized by the
world cinephile. Made in collaboration with Octavio Getino, these works
provided a model and theoretical foundation for a formally avant-garde
anti-colonial cinema, but through five decades of exiles and returns Solanas
has produced a varied body of work, the quality, and importance of which is
recognized both in his home country of Argentina and internationally, with
films such as Sur (The South, 1988), for which he was
awarded the best director prize at Cannes, and Memoria del saqueo (Social
Genocide, 2004), his return to militant documentary filmmaking that
provided a gripping account of the political situation in his home
country. Solanas films focus on the political and contemporary history of his
country.
Solanas films focus on politics
and the contemporary history of his country. Born on February 16, 1936, in
Olivos, Buenos Aires, Solanas received his training in
theater at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art and then went into the film in
1962. While working as a cartoon scriptwriter, he filmed his first short
movies, Seguir andando (1962; Continue Walking) and Reflexión
ciudadana (1963; Citizen Reflection). He also had great success in
composing music for advertising jingles and founded a production company. In
1966, along with Octavio Getino, he began production on the film La
hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios sobre el neocolonialism, la violencia
y la liberación (The Hour of the Furnaces,1968), which was filmed in
secret because of the political situation in Argentina at the time. He worked
for more than two years filming, in 16mm and without sound, this key work of
liberation film, which was acclaimed for both its formal freedom and its
political content. After completion of this film, he formed, along with Gerardo
Vallejo, Octavio Getino, and Edgardo Pallero, the Liberation Film Group, which
prepared a manifesto entitled Hacia un tercer cine (Toward a
Third Cinema), which analyzed the relationships between film and politics. The
group produced two documentaries on the life and political career of Juan
Domingo Perón: Perón: Actualización política y doctrinaria para la toma
del poder (1971; Perón: Political and Doctrine Update for the Taking
of the Power) and Perón: La Revolución justicialista (1971)...
