The filmmaker Pablo César shot this film about the author of “The Tunnel” shortly before the end of the dictatorship, it was left unfinished, and he finished it now. It will be exhibited tomorrow and next Wednesday at the CCK
Ernesto Sabato, as he appears in Pablo César’s documentary.
A rare document about the writer Ernesto Sabato It can be seen for free tomorrow and next Wednesday, at 7pm at the CCK. Is about “Conversations with Ernesto Sabato”, film documentary record taken by Pablo César during the last months of the military government. Cease was making his first films in Super8 (a format used by independent filmmakers at the time, and which was little monitored) and the author of “The tunnel” I had not yet received the proposal Alfonsin to preside over Conadep, although he was already in contact with several of those who would be its members.
In those months, where sadness and hope went hand in hand, the record continues Saturday through Parque Lezama (then very well maintained), La Boca, Plaza Lavalle and your home of Holy Placesexplaining the social genesis of the Vidal Olmos de “About heroes and graves” the misunderstood nature of Peronism, beyond its own Peronhis nascent practice of painting, his distrust of the “committed art”, the praise of a neighborhood commission confronted with the municipality in defense of an old Gomero (which still stands, thanks to those neighbors) and the rejection of what it called “Technolatry, a universal defect of civilization”.
In the middle of the conversation, the writer leaves some life advice floating, as if in passing, with his clear and affable voice: “You have to laugh friendly at Death”. At that time he was already slightly over 70, he had been on the verge of dying on a handful of occasions and he was close to facing the horror by conducting the painful investigations of the National Commission on Disappearance of Persons. Strong, he managed to stay standing until April 30, 2011, when he was less than two months away from turning one hundred years old.
The documentary that can now be seen also has its history. The final assembly was missing when his producer, Ana Maria Novickhe went to live abroad and Cease He took on other challenges that took him several times to Africa and India. Both met again months ago through social networks, they found the material again at a mutual friend’s house, and thus they finished what they had started more than four decades ago: advantages of film material, which can be preserved. There is a plus: the music of “Conversations with Ernesto Sabato” was composed and performed by Guido Sabatoone of his grandchildren.
“When you see the film you will be surprised by its condition, beyond the occasional scratch or grainy shots. Even the sound of the voices, recorded on magnetic tape, is surprising.”points out Ceasestaunch defender of film support. “Films have been digitized in Argentina, but to preserve them the only thing that can guarantee at least 128 years of existence, as has been scientifically proven until now, is the film medium, there is no other”observes, and agrees with the writer: “One technology should not necessarily displace the other, and even less so when the first presents the qualities it has. But that’s our society.”.
Source: Ambito
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