Miguel Cantilo

Aided by archival footage and interviews with its key figures, this documentary delves into the history of Argentine rock music from its origins up to the mid-1990s.

José (Diego Capusotto) lives in Buenos Aires with his father, with whom he doesn't have a good relationship. He's a musician, but supports himself with the earnings from his taxi company, and when he can, he plays with his band in pubs. He's nostalgic for the success he could never achieve again, like when he played with his cousin Miguel (Luis Luque). They had both achieved a certain notoriety with the song "Pájaros vuela" (Flying Birds) by their band "Dientes de Limón." After a long time without seeing each other, Miguel, who lives in Las Pircas, a small town in the mountains of Córdoba, comes to visit him and suggests that he leave the city and come with him.

Taking into account the recovered cultural heritage, INAMU made a short documentary on the history of the company in the development of argentine music in the period 1950-1990, the stoppage of the catalog for 23 years and its subsequent recovery. The National Institute of Music (INAMU) recovered the historic record catalog that belonged to Sicamericana, a public limited company that operated commercially under the names Music Hall, Sazam and / or TK. This catalog, which has more than 1,500 national records, was paralyzed within a bankruptcy judicial process since 1993. As of that year, and until today, the records were unable to be reissued, also preventing them from being generated. financial resources for its interpreters, despite the fact that they were the ones who made those recordings.

Buenos Aires Rock is a film from Argentina filmed in Eastmancolor directed by Héctor Olivera on his own script written in collaboration with Daniel Ripoll that premiered on January 20, 1983 and had the participation of important interpreters of Argentine rock.