Cine y vanguardia en Argentina

Abstract

The concepts of avant-garde and political cinema cross each other until lose their limits in the critical years of the late 60´s and early 70´s. If we define artistic avant-garde as a position ahead of every cultural hegemony of those time, we understand that Argentinean cinema of that period generated two absolutely revolutionary sets of artworks: Solanas and Gleyzer´s films caused the admiration and compression of the European intellectuals and, two decades later, inspired a new generation of film-makers who take on the production of documentaries confronting the 90´s neoliberalism.