Valuable documentary tribute to Daniel Giribaldi

Valuable documentary tribute to Daniel Giribaldi

The filmmaker Diego D’Angelo premiered “Open Poetry. Rebellion and freedom”, about the cycle that the remembered poet organized in the old warehouse, as an open theater substitute.

It is good to remember Daniel Giribaldia bohemian of not so distant times, huge reader of Quevedo and of Gobelloprecise creator of sonnets in lunfardo, promoter of incipient poets, a noctamble journalist who after closing joined his colleagues in the bars, a neighbor of Pompeya and San Telmo who barely fifty died because of a fulminant cirrhosis. She was seen coming, and wrote, with philosopher and smiling verses.

The memory now arises around one of its happiest inventions: Open poetrya weekly, free and blissful encounter of writers, musicians and actors where consecrated and novels went up to read their creations and all shared the happiness of the moment. This was born at the end of 1982, behind Open theater and open danceand lasted several years, first conducted by Giribaldithen sustained by his widow and his daughter. They joined the late in the old warehouse, that his friend the singer Edmundo Rivero I gave them up without any charge. Nor was it requested mandatory.

Alejandro Rice He recorded for years many of those meetings. He even put together a portrait of the poet, “Yesterday my death died”. Then he returned to Salta, where he affirmed as a documentary filmmaker. So far he went to look for him Diego D’Angeloalso a journalist, and then walked through La Rioja, San Luis, Santiago, to meet poets who had enjoyed those evenings and friends.

D’Angelo He also visited closer people, cleaned and compiled everything he could, put together a script with rice, spent two years in those tasks, helped by another good filmmaker, Eduardo Sánchezuntil finally this Thursday could release this memory. The quantity and variety of people interviewed, since Mariam Farías Gómez and Gilberta Caronlibrarian that was then 16 years old and made its first verses, until Jorge Marziali, Romero Borri, Alfonso Nassif, Marino Ponti, Tarragó Rosthat evokes the “distrust of every verse of mine that was born without crying”, and so many others.

Nice tribute, for him who laughed himself by saying, among other jokes, “if there is an unpelled work, that is mine.” True, there are some songs with your lyrics. It is more difficult to find a printed poems, even a few pages.

“Open poetry. Rebellion and freedom” (Argentina, 2024); Dir.: Diego d’Angelo; documentary.

Source: Ambito

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