El cine intelectual de Fernando Birri. Antecedentes a la conformación del Documental Militante en Argentina

Abstract

Fernando Birri is a film maker and theorist. He is considered by many to be the father of the new Latin American cinema. Birri was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. He proposed from his work and ethic and aesthetic approach that allowed the raise of a local and regional identity. That identity is reproduced afterwards in the Third cinema and in the activist cinema tradition. Birri´s work, analyzed from his first films, shows a conceptual axe alined with the anti hegemony. In this sense, the work of Birri is revealed from a thought loaded with political commitment to social transformation.