Posted by: nanmcvittie | February 8, 2010

Third Cinema–Solanas and Getino

Flurry of updates in progress.  First up, I wanted to give you an example of the kind of filmmaking Solanas and Getino were arguing for in their manifesto “Toward a Third Cinema.”  Below is the opening of their 1968 film La Hora de Los Hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces), now considered one of the best examples of Third Cinema/Revolutionary Filmmaking:

An interesting essay about La Hora de Los Hornos can be found at the online cinema studies journal, Senses of Cinema, here.

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