Gabriela Golder
Directing
Known For

The omnibus feature SUCESOS INTERVENIDOS consists of shorts by a who’s who of Argentine documentary and experimental-film giants, including Edgardo Cozarinsky and Gustavo Fontán but also Claudio Caldini, Andrés Di Tella and Gabriela Golder. Each one of them created a piece of a few minutes in length using archival footage from SUCESOS ARGENTINOS (“Argentine Events”), a popular newsreel series from 1938 to 1972 whose episodes have recently begun to be digitized by Buenos Aires’s “Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken” Film Museum.
Intervened Events

Arrancar los ojos is a project that proposes a constellation of works around the gaze and its political dimension. A reflection on the concepts of institutional violence, repression and collective trauma, focusing on the pattern of eye attacks by state security forces.
Broken Eyes

An old man seems to direct the lives of the people who pass by on the street, under his balcony.
Historias Breves I: La Ausencia

"In 1976, the military dictatorship was established in Argentina, and with it, state terrorism. I was five years old. I'm trying to painstakingly piece together some of the pieces of the past." (Gabriela Golder)
En memoria de los pájaros
Two little girls read the Communist Manifesto and ask their grandmother, an artist and political figure, questions like "What is a revolution? What is oppression?"