Guerrilla Filmmaking and total liberation of men

Abstract

We can hardly deny that the emergence of the so-called "new Latin American cinema" constitutes a fundamental event to read the emancipatory expressions, both of the proletarian, peasant and intellectual articulation of the time, and of the cinematographic creation of the second half of the 20th century, whose contribution is still important. So, we have resolved to problematize the discursivity film of Fernando 'Pino' Solanas, Octavio Getino and Fernando Birri (Grupo Cine Liberación), precisely in regards to their attempt to formulate a theory of liberation. This task arose from a finding: in that cinematographic narrative there would be blind spots or forgetfulness, which in turn would be the expression and reception of a Marxist and Marxian theory, a problem that becomes visible in relation to the boundaries between the conscious man and the animal without conscience, among others, of which the cinema of Solana and Birri would form a part. In this sense, we will try to suggest tools for the production of a contemporary critique to the humanism of the left and, therefore, to promote the elaboration of an antispecist/anticapitalist thought, philosophy and practice.