Contrakultura Films was an imprint of Iruña Films, SA a
Buenos Aires
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film production effort dedicated to producing biographical documentaries on Latin American writers. Production offices were located in San Telmo. Soledad Liendo, Leonardo Hussen and Rodolfo Durán were among the producers. The initiative later expanded to include
visual artists
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such as Andrés Waissman and Humberto Calzada, and ocial scientistssuch as León Rozitchner, Ismael Viñas, Juan Jose Sebreli and Jorge Lovisolo. Contrakultura existed as such between 2002 and 2006 producing approximately twenty-five documentaries with the support of
INCAA
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Alexander Street Press
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It was founded in May 2000 in Alexandria, Virginia, by Stephen Rhind-Tutt (President), Janice Cronin (CFO), and Eileen Lawrence (Vice President, Sales and Marketing). As of January ...
.
The initial “Contrakultural series" was known as “Perfiles”, and was made of thirteen biographical documentaries. The series was presented at the Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting "Luso-Hispanic Presence in the Changing Cultural Landscape of America", organized by the
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
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The na ...
at
Yale University
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.
Several of the documentaries on the series Perfiles were directed by
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Eduardo Montes-Bradley is a documentary filmmaker. His most recent works are ''Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor'' and ''Black Fiddlers''.
Life
Montes-Bradley first appeared mentioned in Margareta Vinterheden's ''Man maste ju leva', Swe ...
. Some of the original titles are listed under a pseudonym inspired in legendary actresses of the silent era of Mexican Cinema such as Cándida Beltrán, Mimi Derba, Ana Lobos, Emma Padilla, Lupe Velez, Maria Laura del Rio, Ma. Laura Del Rio. The series was initially publicized as directed by thirteen woman-directors by Eduardo Montes-Bradley.
Contrakultura also produced the series known as the NOA Trilogy, films produced by Contrakultura and directed by Norbert “Negro” Ramírez in the Jujuy and Salta provinces, on the Northwestern region of Argentina.
Perfiles
''Perfiles'' (Profiles), was a series of thirteen documentaries about Latin American writers produced by
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Eduardo Montes-Bradley is a documentary filmmaker. His most recent works are ''Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor'' and ''Black Fiddlers''.
Life
Montes-Bradley first appeared mentioned in Margareta Vinterheden's ''Man maste ju leva', Swe ...
for Contrakultura in Buenos Aires. Previous biographical documentaries by Montes-Bradley include essays on
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known bo ...
,
Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ent ...
,
Osvaldo Soriano
Osvaldo Soriano (January 6, 1943 – January 29, 1997) was an Argentine journalist and writer.Osvaldo Soriano at the and
Osvaldo Bayer
Osvaldo Bayer (18 February 1927 – 24 December 2018) was an Argentine writer and journalist. He lived in Buenos Aires. In 1974, during the presidency of Isabel Perón, he went into exile, residing in Linz am Rhein, Germany, throughout the Natio ...
. The series ''Perfiles'' was initially made of thirteen tiles of 80 minutes each. The average budget for each of the documentaries was $65,000 of which 25% came as advance distribution fees advance from Patagonia Film Group, LLC, and 75% was subsidized by the Ministry of Culture of Argentina. More titles were eventually added to the original thirteen.
* ''Una cierta mirada'' (A Certain Look), 2004. Conversations with Juan José Sebreli. Sebreli recalls his life ass he takes the audience for a ride around timeless Buenos Aires, the architectural and sociopolitical landmarks that define his early childhood, adolescence and the rest of his life. In a way, this doc can be watched as a 20th-century Tour Guide of Buenos Aires, a sketch on Peronism and yet, more. Sebreli's perception of the surroundings, the arts, architecture and the music of the city is a constant throughout the film. Shot in Black and White. Particular emphasis is given to the fundamental changes that took place in the urban transformation of the capital city from single homes in the barrio of Constitución to the apartment buildings that came in response to the population growth. Sebreli also approaches the transition from
Art Nouveau
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to
Art Deco
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, and the architectural evolution of Theaters and Movie Theaters. Another constant reference in the film is to the gay life in Buenos Aires through his lifetime.
* ''Le mot Juste''. Conversations with Héctor Tizón. The documentary, directed by
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Eduardo Montes-Bradley is a documentary filmmaker. His most recent works are ''Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor'' and ''Black Fiddlers''.
Life
Montes-Bradley first appeared mentioned in Margareta Vinterheden's ''Man maste ju leva', Swe ...
, follows the writer to Yala, birthplace and home of Héctor Tizón in Jujuy, Argentina. In a series of candid conversations, Tizón evokes his childhood, and the experience of living between two extremely different cultures: the Quechua the cosmogonies of his native homeland, and the Spanish of the conquistadores perpetuated to this day through the characterization of the Argentine national pride. In Le mot Juste Tizón explores the idea of exile in different directions with particular emphasis to the exile of the native peoples of the Puna under the cultural prevalence of the Spanish Culture and Catholic traditions. Tizón also talks in this film about his personal experience in a different exile, the one that forced him to leave Argentina during the military regime of Jorge Rafael Videla.
* ''La otra orilla'' (The Opposite Shore) Biographical sketch on
psychotherapist
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, member of Revista Sitio and writer-member of the generation of
Osvaldo Lamborghini
Osvaldo Lamborghini (April 12, 1940 – November 18, 1985) was an Argentine writer of the 1960s and 70s avant-gardes. His work is not easily lumped into traditional generic categories, as it spans and combines elements of poetry, prose fiction ...
and . Gusmán is a Konex Award recipient. ''La otra orilla'' follows Gusmán from his native
Avellaneda
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, in the peripheral and less privileged southern suburbs of Buenos Aires, to the middle class-hipster
Palermo
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in the capital city. The film includes previously unknown tango recordings of Luis Gusmán's father. The actual interviews with Gusmám were conducted behind the camera by film student Yael Szmulewicz under the supervision of Montes-Bradley, camera by Alejandro Ortiz, Sound by Horacio Almada. DV , 70 min. and 70 min. version.
* ''Planeta Bizzio'', (Planet Bizzio) Documentary on the life and works of Sergio Bizzio, off beat-poet, playwright and novelist. Interview conducted by Nadina Fushimi.
* ''Deliciosas perversiones polimorfas''. An intimate portrait of
Alberto Laiseca
Alberto Jesús Laiseca (11 February 1941 – 22 December 2016) was an Argentine author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantastic literature. He also worked as a TV host and narrator for horror-related projects. Lai ...
. Laiseca is a cult literary figure of Buenos Aires better known for his fictional metaphysics. The documentary explores the relationship between Laiseca and his father, a rural family doctor living in Córdoba. References to Edgar A. Poe,
William Shakespeare
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and the imminent arrival of the Antichrist are constant leitmotivs in the film.
* ''Si yo fuera realmente Libre'' (If I Were Truly Free). Biographical essay on the life and works of
Alan Pauls
Alan Pauls (born 22 April 1959 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer, literary critic and screenwriter. An early essay he did on ''Betrayed by Rita Hayworth'' by Manuel Puig is said to show his interest in him as an "experimental writer." Althoug ...
. Interview conducted by Daniel Guebel.
* ''Ecce Homo''. Biographical essay on the writer, and cultural icon Juan Filloy. The film is based on an interview with Ana da Costa shortly before his death at 106 in the year 2000. Montes-Bradley's film reconstructs the life of Filloy. Contrakultura, 2004. 52 min.
*''Las memorias del señor Alzheimer''. The protagonist of this film is Jorge "Dipi" Di Paola, a dadaist-
eccentric
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* Eccentricity (graph theory) of a v ...
, writer-poet, an unconventional character of the Buenos Aires underground during the 1970s. The film was shot in 2007, shortly before Di Paola's death in
Tandil
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, some 450 kilometers from the capital of Argentina. In the film, Di Paola, recalls the times in which he and his mentor
Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937 he published his f ...
shared an apartment in Buenos Aires first, and later in Di Paola's home-town of
Tandil
Tandil is the main city of the homonymous Partidos of Buenos Aires, partido (department), located in Argentina, in the southeast of Buenos Aires Province, just north-northwest of Tandilia hills. The city was founded in 1823 and its name originate ...
. Produced by Montes-Bradley, directed by Sergio Belloti.
*''Marcos Ribak aka Andrés Rivera''. Biographical portrait of
Andrés Rivera
Andrés Rivera, born Marcos Ribak (December 12, 1928 – December 23, 2016) was an Argentine writer, born in Buenos Aires. He was at various points a textile worker, a journalist, and a writer. From 1953–1957, Rivera worked as a journalis ...
author of " La revolución es un sueño eterno". The film was primarily shot in Córdoba where the author lived with his second wife Susana Fiorito. The film contributes to shedding light on Polish Jewelry immigration to Argentina, and in the political life of young members of the Communist Party in Buenos Aires during the Peronist regime (1945-1955). Many of the scenes of this film were shot at the legendary
Eden Hotel
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History
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, know to have served as a retreat to the former Nazi officer after the war.
*''No matarás'' (Thou Shall Not Kill). Documentary on
Marcelo Birmajer
Marcelo Birmajer (born November 29, 1966 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine Jewish author. The grandson of Romanian, Polish, Lithuanian and Syrian immigrants. Best known for writing the script for the 2004 film El abrazo partido. Birmajer's work u ...
, an irreverent Jewish-Argentine writer, whose political views, largely at odds with the overwhelming "progressive"-minded cultural milieu in Buenos Aires are largely responsible for his continue political isolation. In the film, Birmajer presents himself to the audience as a lost soul somewhere between Buenos Aires and a not so distant
Middle East
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; holding a tight grip on the umbilical cord that his Jewish-mother preserves intact for generations to-come. The film was produced shortly after the terrorist attack to
AMIA
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*Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina
**AMIA ...
and the Israel Embassy in Buenos Aires which recently gained renewed attention in the media after the presumed murder of
Alberto Nisman
Natalio Alberto Nisman (5 December 1963 – 18 January 2015) was an Argentine lawyer who worked as a federal prosecutor, noted for being the chief investigator of the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people, th ...
. In the film, Birmajer accuses Iran as the primary instigator of the terrorist attacks in Buenos Aires.
* ''El país de no me acuerdo'' (Neverland). A biographical sketch on . Produced with the support of
INCAA
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, Ministerio de Cultura,
National Endowment for the Arts
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, City of Buenos Aires, Sociedad Argentina de Escritores, and
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Filmed scarcely two years before Grondona's passing in Buenos Aires in 2006, the film explores the political life in Argentina through the eyes of this iconic and revered actor-director who first appearance in the screen
Immigrants
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came under the direction of
Aldo Fabrizi
Aldo Fabrizi (; born Aldo Fabbrizi; 1 November 1905 – 2 April 1990) was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and comedian, best known for the role of the heroic priest in Roberto Rossellini's ''Rome, Open City'' and as partner of Totò in ...
. The film comes to a severe critique to
Peronism
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, and what Grondona refers to in the film as "moral decay" and the "decomposition of the social fabric in Argentina". Produced by Contrakultura, 2004. Cinematography Alejandro Ortiz, Sound Horacio Almada. Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley as Cándida Beltrán. DV , 79 min.
* ''Saludablemente en pelotas''. Biographical sketch on , journalist ( Pagina/12), and fiction writer better known for his collaboration with
comics
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artist.
* ''La célula fugitiva'' (The Fugitive Cell). Biographical sketch on journalist and scriptwriter
José Pablo Feinmann
José Pablo Feinmann (29 March 1943 – 17 December 2021) was an Argentine philosopher, writer, playwright, and television host. He also penned several screenplays for domestic film production and international coproductions.
Born to Abraham a ...
. The title translates as "The fugitive cell" and alludes to the protagonist's survival to a cancer diagnosis during the government of
Isabel Perón
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and the Triple A.
* ''Desandando el tiempo''. (Unwinding Time) Biographical sketch of the poet (1914-2005). Produced by Eduardo Montes-Bradley and Directed by Rodolfo Durán as "Valentina Carrasco".
* ''En el nombre del padre''. (In the Name of the Father). Biographical sketch on Ana María Shua.
* ''Espléndida decadencia''. (Splendid Decadence) Biographical sketch on .
NOA Trilogy
Series of three documentary films produced by Montes-Bradley with the support of the Ministry of Culture of
Salta
Salta () is the capital and largest city in the Argentine province of the same name. With a population of 618,375 according to the 2010 census, it is also the 7th most-populous city in Argentina. The city serves as the cultural and economic ce ...
, and a grant from the
National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts
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. The trilogy was directed by Norberto "Negro" Ramírez, a filmmaker born in
Catamarca Province
Catamarca () is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. The province had a population of 334,568 as per the , and covers an area of 102,602 km2. Its literacy rate is 95.5%. Neighbouring provinces are (clockwise, fr ...
, and raised in Buenos Aires. During the dictatorship 1976-1983 Ramirez found refuge in the internal exile in the northwestern provinces of Argentina, a region known as NOA (Noroeste Argentino), also known as Puna, which mainly includes
Jujuy
San Salvador de Jujuy (), commonly known as Jujuy and locally often referred to as San Salvador, is the capital and largest city of Jujuy Province in Argentine Northwest, northwest Argentina. Also, it is the seat of the Doctor Manuel Belgrano Depa ...
and
Salta
Salta () is the capital and largest city in the Argentine province of the same name. With a population of 618,375 according to the 2010 census, it is also the 7th most-populous city in Argentina. The city serves as the cultural and economic ce ...
provinces.
* ''From Frankfurt to Humahuaca''. Biographical-essay on Jorge Lovisolo, a philosopher entrenched in the northwestern province of Salta; a disciple of The Frankfurt School, and author of numerous essays. The film deals with Lovisolo's obsessions in a sort of self-imposed exile in
Salta
Salta () is the capital and largest city in the Argentine province of the same name. With a population of 618,375 according to the 2010 census, it is also the 7th most-populous city in Argentina. The city serves as the cultural and economic ce ...
; his perspectives on religion and local communities, the thoughts of
Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist.
An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish mys ...
,
Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse (; ; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University ...
,
Theodore Adorno
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He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critica ...
and others. NOA Productions, 2005.
*''Kopla Vera''. Biographical-essay on Jesús Ramón Vera, author of numerous verses inspired in the liturgical
carnival
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of
Jujuy
San Salvador de Jujuy (), commonly known as Jujuy and locally often referred to as San Salvador, is the capital and largest city of Jujuy Province in Argentine Northwest, northwest Argentina. Also, it is the seat of the Doctor Manuel Belgrano Depa ...
. NOA Productions, c. 2006.
* ''Yo y el tiempo'', (Time and I). Biographical-essay on poet-composer Juan José Botelli, a native and cultural icon in
Salta
Salta () is the capital and largest city in the Argentine province of the same name. With a population of 618,375 according to the 2010 census, it is also the 7th most-populous city in Argentina. The city serves as the cultural and economic ce ...
. "Yo y el tiempo" is the third and last documentary in the NOA trilogy produced by Montes-Bradley, and directed by Norberto "Negro" Ramírez. NOA Productions, c.2006
Other Titles
*''El hombre invisible'', (The Invisible Man) The documentary explores the work of early film editors of News Reel in Argentina during the 1940s and through the 1960s.
*''La oficina'' (The Office) A documentary by Blas Eloy Martínez, son of the laureate writer Tomás Eloy Martínez. The film is set in the background of a red-tape Office of Vital Records. Produced by Montes Bradley.
*''Dirigido por ... '' (Directed by) This film explores the creative process of Argentine filmmakers in a series of in-depth interviews intertwined with an extensive archival of films and photography. Includes conversations with
Adolfo Aristarain
Adolfo Aristarain (born October 19, 1943) is an Argentina, Argentine film director and screenwriter who is famous for his filmic sophistication and subtle examination of issues of political oppression. ''Variety (magazine), Variety'' has deemed ...
,
Academy Award
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recipient
Luis Puenzo
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Biography
Puenzo was born in Buenos Aires in ...
David José Kohon
David José Kohon (18 October 1929; Buenos Aires – 30 October 2004; ''ibid.
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,
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Eduardo Montes-Bradley is a documentary filmmaker. His most recent works are ''Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor'' and ''Black Fiddlers''.
Life
Montes-Bradley first appeared mentioned in Margareta Vinterheden's ''Man maste ju leva', Swe ...
, Anibal DiSalvo, Daniel Burman, Mario Levin, Edmund Valladares, and others.
*''Insurgentes''. The documentary investigates the connections between the ( Revolutionary Left Movement), the ( ERP), and (
Tupamaros
The Tupamaros – National Liberation Movement ( es, Movimiento de Liberación Nacional – Tupamaros, MLN-T), widely known as Tupamaros, was a Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group in Uruguay in the 1960s and 1970s. The MLN-T is inextricab ...
) in the 1970s. The film also focuses on Plan Condor, the multilateral efforts by Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil to defeat the guerrilla insurgents. The film was produced by Montes-Bradley and directed by Pablo Doudchitzky.
*''Low Blows:, La Raulito''. This documentary follows
soccer
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icon Maria Esher Duffau aka " La Raulito", the fan-mascot of
Boca Juniors
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and an eccentric folk character in
Buenos Aires
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. La Raulito as Maria Esher Duffau was known, had previously been immortalized in a film by the same name directed by
Lautaro Murúa
Lautaro Murúa (; 29 December 1926 in Tacna, Chile – 3 December 1995 in Madrid) was a Chilean-Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is one of the best known actors in the cinema of Argentina.
Born in Chile, Murúa moved to ...
. However, in this documentary the director, a Boca Juniors fan himself, follows the protagonist during the last days of her life. ''Low Blows: La Raulito'' premiered at International Film Festival in December 2009. Latin American Selection.Catalogue and website for the
Mar del Plata Film Festival
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, 2009 Produced by Eduardo Montes-Bradley, directed by Emiliano Serra.
*''Negro sobre blanco'' (Black on White). A biographical film about Margarita Bróndolo
negative cutting
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. Margarita recalls the pioneering times of Argentine cinema days when she was one of the first female
film editor
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The film edit ...
in
Estudios San Miguel
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. At the time Bróndolo worked alongside iconic figures of the golden era of a film such as
Eva Duarte
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* Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment
* Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in t ...
. The documentary abounds in newsreels, and clips from some of the most celebrated film titles of Argentina. The film was directed by Eduardo López, himself a long time and award-winning editor next to
Academy Award
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Nominee
Adolfo Aristarain
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. Produced by Montes Bradley, edited and directed by Eduardo López.