Cecilia Lacruz "Una imagen para el Tercer cine"
Channel: Rethinking Conceptualism
Date: 2021-02-28

Cecilia Lacruz "Una imagen para el Tercer cine" (An Image for Third Cinema)

Español: 
En lugar de centrar la atención en los cineastas, en las películas, los festivales o en los manifiestos, esta ponencia propone pensar el Tercer cine a través de una de las tantas expresiones que tuvo la metáfora violenta de la cámara como un arma. Se trata del caso singular de la ilustración realizada en 1969 por el dibujante uruguayo Paco Laurenzo. Nacida para identificar al Cine Club del semanario Marcha de Montevideo, la imagen de un hombre empuñando la cámara como un fusil se convirtió en el isotipo de la Cinemateca del Tercer Mundo, (C3M, 1969-1972), el grupo de cine liderado por el cineasta Mario Handler y el distribuidor y productor, Walter Achugar.  Como parte de una investigación más amplia que indaga en el período 1969-1978, esta presentación propone pensarla como una "imagen faro", que no solo atravesó, positiva y heroicamente, el sentido de la práctica cinematográfica, sino que ocupó un lugar destacado en los repertorios visuales del cine político en diferentes partes del mundo. Tanto su circulación global en revistas como su uso posterior en colectivos de cine militante, permiten abordar sus reapropiaciones como la expresión de vínculos de colaboración materiales más extensos, y examinar las redes de solidaridad e internacionalismo que se tejieron en torno al Tercer cine.

English:
Instead of focusing on filmmakers, films, festivals or manifestos, this lecture proposes to think about Third Cinema through one of the many expressions that had the violent metaphor of the camera as a weapon. This is the singular case of the illustration made in 1969 by the Uruguayan drawer Paco Laurenzo. The image was born to identify the Cine Club of the Montevideo weekly newspaper Marcha, the image of a man wielding the camera like a weapon became the isotype of the Cinemateca del Tercer Mundo, (C3M, 1969-1972), the film group led by the filmmaker Mario Handler and the distributor and producer, Walter Achugar.  As part of a broader investigation that explores the period 1969-1978, this presentation proposes to think of it as a "lighthouse image" that not only positively and heroically traversed the meaning of film practice, but also occupied a prominent place in the visual repertoires of political cinema in different parts of the world. Both its global circulation in magazines and its subsequent use in militant film collectives allow us to approach its re-appropriations as the expression of wider material collaborative links, and to examine the networks of solidarity and internationalism that were woven around Third Cinema.

This lecture is part of the discussion "Third Cinema and Internationalism", as part of the programme of the online symposium "Rethinking Conceptualism: Avant-Garde, Activism and Politics in Latin American Art (1960s-1980s)" 

Discussion "Third Cinema and Internationalism": Cecilia Lacruz, Miguel Errazu and Mariano Mestman, in conversation with Peter B. Schumann 

Discussion via Zoom: 25 March 2021, 18.00 h (GMT +1)

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Credits: 
Video: Cecilia Lacruz
Subtitles: Gladys Quintero Torres
Video editing: Katerina Valdivia Bruch and Jordi Valdivia Bruch
Portrait photo of Cecilia Lacruz: © Irina Raffo
Graphic: Katerina Valdivia Bruch 

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Rethinking Conceptualism: Avant-Garde, Activism and Politics in Latin American Art (1960s-1980s) 
A project by Katerina Valdivia Bruch 

In collaboration with Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Instituto Cervantes Berlin 
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen 
Supported by Embassy of Uruguay in Germany, Embassy of Chile in Germany


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