Nicolás Prividera

Continuing the series started with Intervened Events (2014), the Buenos Aires Film Museum presents the second feature film made entirely with material from its archives and by fourteen outstanding Argentine filmmakers. These are nine issues of Cine Escuela Argentino, a project created in 1948 by the Argentine Ministry of Education during the first government of Juan Domingo Perón. The latter promoted “the use of the cinematographer as a didactic assistant destined to complete the educational and cultural work, mainly in what concerns exalting the feelings of the nationality, with the heroic example of the heroes, Christian morality and the multiple civil duties, great and small”. Hence, most of the films produced by Cine Escuela Argentino were aimed at scientific dissemination and tourism promotion of the various regions of the country. (Museum of Cinema)

Fatherland brings a rigorous structural approach to a site of monuments that is also a place of movement, criss-crossed daily by tourists and locals. The grounds are laid out like city blocks, with wide avenues branching onto laneways filled with elaborate mausoleums. The film does not attempt to tour the cemetery as one would on foot, however, but rather moves chronologically through the history enshrined there. A series of individuals are framed in static compositions as they read aloud excerpts from the writings of noteworthy Argentines interred within. (Some license has been taken, as the final resting places of certain figures represented - such as journalist Rodolfo Walsh, who was among the "disappeared" - remain unknown. The result is both poetic and political.) Beginning in the early 1800s, this history comprises civil war, battles with the country's native population, the conflict between the city and the provinces, and years of military dictatorship.

Mauro roams around the city buying things. Anything, no matter what. Because Mauro is a "pasador", a man who exchanges fake bills.

A father who has lost his memory. A son looking for home movies that his father filmed. And among them, the impossible memory of the missing mother

A film buff does his generational autobiography by relating the problems of maturity in contemporary cinema to the character of Antoine Doinel. When he learns that the actor who played him is coming to visit his city, he makes a drastic decision.

Close to achieving the same age as her mother when she was kidnapped in 1976, the film director began an intense investigation that leads him to meet with old colleagues and militants close to his mother. In this search, new questions arise, misunderstandings, silence, and complicity.

A letter about the persistence of ghosts, the incomprehensibility of the past and its traces in the present. A city in two times, 50 years apart. Images and words that mix and overlap, while memory recovers streets, museums, cemeteries, absences. And suddenly something explodes.

Premiered in the framework of Bafici, Seized Files: Film School is the second collective feature sponsored by the Museum of the Cinema of Buenos Aires, this time with propaganda series produced during the fifties, aimed at a young audience also protagonist of them. The more re-concentrated nature of materials, less heterogeneous than events intervened "first project use old newsreel "Sucesos Argentinos"", makes that the movie has a more cohesive character on the back and return of the same images, flowed through various searches of each Director, creating different looks and uses. In this case, the director wanted to out his 'intervention' in all senses of the word, just like Prividera's previous feature films. In fact, in these few minutes is both using the file how in the beginning of Fatherland (2011), and the intertitles deployed on M (2007), in base a quote it reconsiders those old images and words looking for its resonance in our present.