Movies: Fernando Birri

1998
Entangling Shadows (1998)
Entangling Shadows
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Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los...
1999
Soriano (1999)
Soriano
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1984
Rte.: Nicaragua (Carta al mundo) (1984)
Rte.: Nicaragua (Carta al mundo)
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2002
Un tal Ragone: deconstruyendo a Pa (2002)
Un tal Ragone: deconstruyendo a Pa
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2009
Amizade (2009)
Amizade
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2013
Vanishing landscapes (2013)
Vanishing landscapes
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A mockumentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about an alleged film director living obscurely in a Buenos Aires mental hospital. In their visits to the mental hospital, the three students will forge a very special relations...
1985
Mi hijo el Che (1985)
Mi hijo el Che
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1999
Century of the Wind (1999)
Century of the Wind
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Narrated [not only] with puppets, a dramatic vision of Latin America throughout the 20th century with its constant ferment of dictatorships, hunger, corruption, civil wars, heroic episodes and spilled blood....
2009
Carpani, vida y obra (2009)
Carpani, vida y obra
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1984
Rafael Alberti: A Portrait of the Poet by Fernando Birri (1984)
Rafael Alberti: A Portrait of the Poet by Fernando Birri
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1996
Historias Breves II: Trece Segundos (1996)
Historias Breves II: Trece Segundos
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What goes through someone's mind 13 seconds before they die? A town lost in the year 40. Different characters in their common actions. Two men lying in the street, one dead, the other playing dead. Between reality and the delusions of his mind we tra...
1959
The First Foundation of Buenos Aires (1959)
The First Foundation of Buenos Aires
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In 1956, the humorous designer Oski made a work about the foundation of the city of Buenos Aires. Fernando Birri made a film from this work in 1959, using the original text of the German explorer Ulrich Schmidel. This film, which disappeared in the...
1966
Buenos días, Buenos Aires (1966)
Buenos días, Buenos Aires
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Documentary that describes the awakening of the city and its daily movement....
2000
Jorge Giannoni: NN, ese soy yo (2000)
Jorge Giannoni: NN, ese soy yo
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1963
La Pampa Gringa (1963)
La Pampa Gringa
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“My life was the same as that of thousands of gringos: I plowed and sowed the land, and went to the bar on Sunday.” Such is the refrain throughout LA PAMPA GRINGA, which endeavors to relate the sense of community built by the European settlers who in...
1954
Immagini Popolari Siciliane Sacri (1954)
Immagini Popolari Siciliane Sacri
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Short documentary drawing parallels between the Sicilian people and their history of sacred visual representation....
1951
Selinunte, i templi addormentati (1951)
Selinunte, i templi addormentati
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SELINUNTE marks Birri’s first cinematic effort, made during his years studying at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Roma....
1951
One Is One (1951)
One Is One
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"Carlo and Rafaella are going to Rome for the first time. They have specially planned a journey they must make so that they can have a whole day together alone".. . so starts this film following the (mis)fortunes of these two young lovers. [Presumabl...
1966
Che, Buenos Aires (1966)
Che, Buenos Aires
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Film made up of five short documentaries about the city of Buenos Aires made between 1958 and 1964: Good morning, Buenos Aires, The Anonymous, The First Foundation of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires in a T-shirt....
1967
Castagnino Diario Romano (1967)
Castagnino Diario Romano
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Equal parts philosophical treatise and artist’s portrait, this short follows the thoughts and methods of Argentine artist Juan Carlos Castagnino, whose commitment to utopian thinking and radicalism mirror Birri’s own. “Living up to date is living one...