HUNTER COLLEGE – SPRING 2025
The revolutionary currents of the 60s set the Americas on fire and made the New Latin Cinema one of the most powerful cinematic movements in the world. Films from Latin America became unapologetically political, expressly aiming to transform the societies in which they were born. In their infamous and inflammatory Toward a Third Cinema manifesto, Pino Solanas and Octavio Getino called for filmmakers to “Insert [their] work as an original fact in the process of liberation, place it first at the service of life itself, ahead of art, [and] dissolve aesthetics in the life of society; only in this way, as Fanon said, can decolonization become possible…” In line with these revolutionary axioms, a batch of new directors came to the scene with films that defied both the hegemony of the Hollywood studio system and Europe’s aesthetic-driven cinema.
Film 23100 focuses on three mayor exponents of the New Latin American cinema: Afro Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez, Brazilian director and theorist Glauber Rocha, and Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán. Students will see a selection of their films in class and will create multimedia resources to help research their work in light of contemporary issues. Class discussions will be animated by a selection of articles that bring to the forefront decolonial politics, aesthetics, and ethics in Latin American Cinema.
Instructor: Pedro Cabello del Moral: [email protected]
Schedule: Tuesdays 10:30-2:20 pm. Classroom: North Bldg 502
Office Hours: By appointment, Room HN 515