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Friday,
October 24 at 7pm
The
Hour of the Furnaces
dir.
Fernando E Solanas & Octavio Getino, Argentina, 1968, 16mm,
260 mins, b/w, Spanish w/ English subtitles; screened with two
intermissions - Part 1 - 95 mins, Part 2 - 120 mins, Part 3
- 45 mins
Co-presented
by the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
 Released
in 1968, the film represents one of the most articulate voices
of the western world’s first supra-national revolution: the
radical student, worker and civil-rights movements in Europe
and the Americas. Forty years later, it bears witness to a bygone
era of utopian radicalism and remains a central cinematic example
of the marriage of aesthetics and politics at the core of avant-garde
art. – Elena Feder, film scholar and curator
Part
I, Neo-Colonialism and Violence - a radical history
of Argentina. Part II, An Act for Liberation - 1945-1955
reign of Juan Peron and the activities of the Peronist movement
after his fall from power. Part III, Violence and Liberation
- the role and meaning of violence in political struggle.
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