La Forestal en clave fílmica. Un pasado que no termina de pasar

Abstract

The actions of the English company “The Forestal, Land, Timber and Railways Company limited (1906 -1969) -more popularly known as “La Forestal”- in the Austral Chaco and more specifically in the north of Santa Fe, have generated profound environmental and social impacts with consequences that go beyond the present. As a paradigmatic case, it has been approached in different productions, from literature that became a historiographic record (Gori: 1965) to documentary films that range a whole series of documentaries, the remembered film Quebracho (Wullicher: 1974), and, even more recently it is approached from the animation. This work aims to follow up these productions to focus on the analysis of Viaje a la Tierra del Quebracho (Quiñones: 2011), an animated short film that can be classified at the service of memory. In this case it refers to the dispossession, an identity that struggles to free itself from that imaginary of ghost towns. Not only does it show what happened through fiction and the richness of animated images, but it also takes us back to a historical past with its complexity and consequences while opening us up to many other meanings.