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Venue: 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Was also part of: exp. 1
Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, Walter Tournier
Grupo Experimental de Cine (Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, Walter Tournier), En la selva hay mucho por hacer [In The Jungle There Is Much To Do], 1974, Cut-out animation film, 35mm, 4:3, color, sound, 16’34’’, installation view, 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint, 5.9.–1.11.2020, photo: Mathias Völzke
Grupo Experimental de Cine (Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, Walter Tournier), En la selva hay mucho por hacer [In the Jungle There Is Much to Do], 1974, cut out animation film, with background paintings with pastels, shot in 35mm, 4:3, color, sound, 16′ 34″, courtesy Grupo Experimental de Cine,
Alfredo Echániz, born 1946 in Montevideo – lives and works in Buenos Aires, AR
Gabriel Peluffo, born 1946 in Montevideo – lives and works in Montevideo
Walter Tournier, born 1944 in Montevideo – lives and works Montevideo
In 1974, a group of architecture students made a 35mm animated film based on the book En la selva hay mucho por hacer [In the Jungle There Is Much to Do] by Mauricio Gatti. They were all part of the Cinemateca del Tercer Mundo (C3M), the Uruguayan epicenter of radical filmmakers based in Montevideo, which existed from 1969 until 1974. Walter Achugar, one of the C3M’s founders, encountered the book as a political prisoner himself, and on his release, decided to produce the film, inviting the three young C3M members to realize it. Using cutout stop-motion techniques to give life to Gatti’s drawings, the animation turned his verses into music, sung by Jorge Estela. After the military coup in 1973, Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, and Walter Tournier launched the film as the Grupo Experimental de Cine, as a way of anonymizing themselves amidst escalating repression. They finished the film in a makeshift manner, handcrafting it under precarious conditions while working in secret. The short film honors Gatti’s allegory in which anarchy is harmony.
This was the last work of the C3M, which was shut down by the dictatorship in 1974. They managed to screen the animation twice in Montevideo before most of its members were arrested or forced to flee the country. The film travelled with Achugar, who distributed it among political circles while in exile himself. Censored in Uruguay, the film won several awards abroad and was shown internationally in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly as part of political campaigns within exile communities against the military regimes of South America. Most copies of the film were eventually lost or destroyed in transit, as they followed the routes of those displaced. The present digitization was made using a copy kept by a German filmmaker who returned it to the directors some years ago. The persistent survival of En la selva hay mucho por hacer is in itself a testament to the power of solidarity.
Amelia Bande
Trailer: Grupo Experimental de Cine, En la selva hay mucho por hacer, 1974
Undocumented Rumours and Disappearing Acts from Chile
María Berríos
Essay
Invitation to the Species: Cecilia Vicuña
Tamaas / Cecilia Vicuña
Podcast
Glossary of Common Knowledge
L’Internationale Online
Glossary
Fragments of the Artist’s Diary, Berlin 11.2019–1.2020
Virginia de Medeiros
Diary
Teatro da Vertigem
Monograph
Solidarity and Storytelling. Rumors against Enclosure
María Berríos
Essay
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Venue: 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Was also part of: exp. 1
Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, Walter Tournier
Grupo Experimental de Cine (Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, Walter Tournier), En la selva hay mucho por hacer [In The Jungle There Is Much To Do], 1974, Cut-out animation film, 35mm, 4:3, color, sound, 16’34’’, installation view, 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint, 5.9.–1.11.2020, photo: Mathias Völzke
Grupo Experimental de Cine (Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, Walter Tournier), En la selva hay mucho por hacer [In the Jungle There Is Much to Do], 1974, cut out animation film, with background paintings with pastels, shot in 35mm, 4:3, color, sound, 16′ 34″, courtesy Grupo Experimental de Cine,
Alfredo Echániz, born 1946 in Montevideo – lives and works in Buenos Aires, AR
Gabriel Peluffo, born 1946 in Montevideo – lives and works in Montevideo
Walter Tournier, born 1944 in Montevideo – lives and works Montevideo
In 1974, a group of architecture students made a 35mm animated film based on the book En la selva hay mucho por hacer [In the Jungle There Is Much to Do] by Mauricio Gatti. They were all part of the Cinemateca del Tercer Mundo (C3M), the Uruguayan epicenter of radical filmmakers based in Montevideo, which existed from 1969 until 1974. Walter Achugar, one of the C3M’s founders, encountered the book as a political prisoner himself, and on his release, decided to produce the film, inviting the three young C3M members to realize it. Using cutout stop-motion techniques to give life to Gatti’s drawings, the animation turned his verses into music, sung by Jorge Estela. After the military coup in 1973, Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, and Walter Tournier launched the film as the Grupo Experimental de Cine, as a way of anonymizing themselves amidst escalating repression. They finished the film in a makeshift manner, handcrafting it under precarious conditions while working in secret. The short film honors Gatti’s allegory in which anarchy is harmony.
This was the last work of the C3M, which was shut down by the dictatorship in 1974. They managed to screen the animation twice in Montevideo before most of its members were arrested or forced to flee the country. The film travelled with Achugar, who distributed it among political circles while in exile himself. Censored in Uruguay, the film won several awards abroad and was shown internationally in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly as part of political campaigns within exile communities against the military regimes of South America. Most copies of the film were eventually lost or destroyed in transit, as they followed the routes of those displaced. The present digitization was made using a copy kept by a German filmmaker who returned it to the directors some years ago. The persistent survival of En la selva hay mucho por hacer is in itself a testament to the power of solidarity.
Amelia Bande
Trailer: Grupo Experimental de Cine, En la selva hay mucho por hacer, 1974
Queer Ancient Ways: A Decolonial Exploration
Zairong Xiang
Monograph
Solidarity and Storytelling. Rumors against Enclosure
María Berríos
Essay
Expresiones de la locura: el arte de los enfermos mentales
Hans Prinzhorn
Monograph
Género y colonialidad en busca de claves de lectura y de un vocabulario estratégico descolonial
Rita Segato
Essay
Freiheit für Chile!
Anonymous
Photo album
II: La Solidaridad va Más Allá de un Concepto. Entre las Curadoras de la XI Berlin Biennale
Lisette Lagnado, Agustín Pérez Rubio
Conversation
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Venue: 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Was also part of: exp. 1
Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, Walter Tournier
Grupo Experimental de Cine (Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, Walter Tournier), En la selva hay mucho por hacer [In The Jungle There Is Much To Do], 1974, Cut-out animation film, 35mm, 4:3, color, sound, 16’34’’, installation view, 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint, 5.9.–1.11.2020, photo: Mathias Völzke
Grupo Experimental de Cine (Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, Walter Tournier), En la selva hay mucho por hacer [In the Jungle There Is Much to Do], 1974, cut out animation film, with background paintings with pastels, shot in 35mm, 4:3, color, sound, 16′ 34″, courtesy Grupo Experimental de Cine,
Alfredo Echániz, born 1946 in Montevideo – lives and works in Buenos Aires, AR
Gabriel Peluffo, born 1946 in Montevideo – lives and works in Montevideo
Walter Tournier, born 1944 in Montevideo – lives and works Montevideo
In 1974, a group of architecture students made a 35mm animated film based on the book En la selva hay mucho por hacer [In the Jungle There Is Much to Do] by Mauricio Gatti. They were all part of the Cinemateca del Tercer Mundo (C3M), the Uruguayan epicenter of radical filmmakers based in Montevideo, which existed from 1969 until 1974. Walter Achugar, one of the C3M’s founders, encountered the book as a political prisoner himself, and on his release, decided to produce the film, inviting the three young C3M members to realize it. Using cutout stop-motion techniques to give life to Gatti’s drawings, the animation turned his verses into music, sung by Jorge Estela. After the military coup in 1973, Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, and Walter Tournier launched the film as the Grupo Experimental de Cine, as a way of anonymizing themselves amidst escalating repression. They finished the film in a makeshift manner, handcrafting it under precarious conditions while working in secret. The short film honors Gatti’s allegory in which anarchy is harmony.
This was the last work of the C3M, which was shut down by the dictatorship in 1974. They managed to screen the animation twice in Montevideo before most of its members were arrested or forced to flee the country. The film travelled with Achugar, who distributed it among political circles while in exile himself. Censored in Uruguay, the film won several awards abroad and was shown internationally in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly as part of political campaigns within exile communities against the military regimes of South America. Most copies of the film were eventually lost or destroyed in transit, as they followed the routes of those displaced. The present digitization was made using a copy kept by a German filmmaker who returned it to the directors some years ago. The persistent survival of En la selva hay mucho por hacer is in itself a testament to the power of solidarity.
Amelia Bande
Trailer: Grupo Experimental de Cine, En la selva hay mucho por hacer, 1974
Invitation to the Species: Cecilia Vicuña
Tamaas / Cecilia Vicuña
Podcast
THE MOBILIZATION
Nicolás Cuello
Text
Struggle as Culture: The Museum of Solidarity, 1971–73
María Berríos
Essay
A Moment of True Decolonization / Episode #6: Sinthujan Varatharajah. Constructing the Tamil Eelam State
The Funambulist / Sinthujan Varatharajah
Podcast
#fight4rojava
Graffiti
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe murdered under National Socialism, Berlin, photos: Alex Ostojski
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
Dani Karavan
Memorial
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Venue: 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Was also part of: exp. 1
Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, Walter Tournier
Grupo Experimental de Cine (Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, Walter Tournier), En la selva hay mucho por hacer [In The Jungle There Is Much To Do], 1974, Cut-out animation film, 35mm, 4:3, color, sound, 16’34’’, installation view, 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint, 5.9.–1.11.2020, photo: Mathias Völzke
Grupo Experimental de Cine (Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, Walter Tournier), En la selva hay mucho por hacer [In the Jungle There Is Much to Do], 1974, cut out animation film, with background paintings with pastels, shot in 35mm, 4:3, color, sound, 16′ 34″, courtesy Grupo Experimental de Cine,
Alfredo Echániz, born 1946 in Montevideo – lives and works in Buenos Aires, AR
Gabriel Peluffo, born 1946 in Montevideo – lives and works in Montevideo
Walter Tournier, born 1944 in Montevideo – lives and works Montevideo
In 1974, a group of architecture students made a 35mm animated film based on the book En la selva hay mucho por hacer [In the Jungle There Is Much to Do] by Mauricio Gatti. They were all part of the Cinemateca del Tercer Mundo (C3M), the Uruguayan epicenter of radical filmmakers based in Montevideo, which existed from 1969 until 1974. Walter Achugar, one of the C3M’s founders, encountered the book as a political prisoner himself, and on his release, decided to produce the film, inviting the three young C3M members to realize it. Using cutout stop-motion techniques to give life to Gatti’s drawings, the animation turned his verses into music, sung by Jorge Estela. After the military coup in 1973, Alfredo Echániz, Gabriel Peluffo, and Walter Tournier launched the film as the Grupo Experimental de Cine, as a way of anonymizing themselves amidst escalating repression. They finished the film in a makeshift manner, handcrafting it under precarious conditions while working in secret. The short film honors Gatti’s allegory in which anarchy is harmony.
This was the last work of the C3M, which was shut down by the dictatorship in 1974. They managed to screen the animation twice in Montevideo before most of its members were arrested or forced to flee the country. The film travelled with Achugar, who distributed it among political circles while in exile himself. Censored in Uruguay, the film won several awards abroad and was shown internationally in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly as part of political campaigns within exile communities against the military regimes of South America. Most copies of the film were eventually lost or destroyed in transit, as they followed the routes of those displaced. The present digitization was made using a copy kept by a German filmmaker who returned it to the directors some years ago. The persistent survival of En la selva hay mucho por hacer is in itself a testament to the power of solidarity.
Amelia Bande
Trailer: Grupo Experimental de Cine, En la selva hay mucho por hacer, 1974
II: La Solidaridad va Más Allá de un Concepto. Entre las Curadoras de la XI Berlin Biennale
Lisette Lagnado, Agustín Pérez Rubio
Conversation
Fragments of the Artist’s Diary, Berlin 11.2019–1.2020
Virginia de Medeiros
Diary
COVID-19 VIDEOS
Carlos Motta
Video
THE MOBILIZATION
Nicolás Cuello
Text
Flávio de Carvalho: Fazenda Capuava
Archive of Lisette Lagnado
Photographs
Solidarity and Storytelling. Rumors against Enclosure
María Berríos
Essay
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