Cinema and Archival Fever in Three Latin American Experiences: Archivo Cordero, Tierra Sola & the Utopia of Anarchiva

This essay studies three Latin American documentary experiences that work with archived visual memory. An anthropologist becomes fascinated with an old photographic archive in La Paz, Bolivia. The story of an imaginary researcher who finds some movies about an island far away in the Pacific Ocean, a...

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Autor: Estrada Alvarez, Adriana
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Uruguay
Recursos:Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Repositorio:LIBERI
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:liberi.ucu.edu.uy:10895/6079
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.ucu.edu.uy/index.php/revistadixit/article/view/3031
https://hdl.handle.net/10895/6079
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:cinema
memory
archive fever
Latin America
cine
memoria
mal de archivo
Latinoamérica
memória
doença de arquivo
América Latina
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Resumo:This essay studies three Latin American documentary experiences that work with archived visual memory. An anthropologist becomes fascinated with an old photographic archive in La Paz, Bolivia. The story of an imaginary researcher who finds some movies about an island far away in the Pacific Ocean, and travels to it, and from there he writes to a friend. Finally, the story of a filmmaker who searched for The Life of General Villa (1914), found fragments of it in La venganza de Pancho Villa (1931), the filmmaker passionate of his own story begins to buy lots of films, old mechanical cinema, and all kinds of visual instruments to live in a utopia called Anarchivia.