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ORO NEGRO, TIERRA SUBLEVADA PARTE II - BLACK GOLD, LAND IN REVOLT PART 2
Special Event
Argentina, Venezuela 2011, 107’, HD, colour
directed by Fernando E. Solanas
screenplay
FERNANDO E. SOLANAS
cinematography
FERNANDO E. SOLANAS
RINO PRAVATO
MAURICIO MINOTTI
ALEJANDRO FERNÁNDEZ MOUJÁN
editing
ALBERTO PONCE
JUAN C. MACÍAS
MAURICIO MINOTTI
FERNANDO E. SOLANAS
music
MAURO LÁZZARO
producer
FERNANDO E. SOLANAS
DAVID RODRÍGUEZ
production
CINESUR
AMAZONIA FILMS
with the partecipation of
INCAA
world sales
BUENA ONDA INTERNATIONAL
dranvaud@gmail.com
www.buenaondainternational.com
synopsis
BLACK GOLD - LAND IN REVOLT PART 2 is the epic of popular resistance against the sale of Argentinean oil resources to private-owned companies and the tragic consequences of this: impoverishment, loss of jobs, environmental pollution. 40 years after THE HOUR OF THE FURNACES, LAND IN REVOLT, Solanas continues the film-essay model where genres are merged by alternating chronicles with reflections, archive sequences and emotional portraits of human beings as main characters in each story: workers, engineers, town dwellers. “BLACK GOLD was born out of the same motivations of the other five films which make up the sextet “Crónicas de la causa Sur”: constructing a memory against oblivion and promoting a reflection and a debate around the main Argentinean issues. In all the films I tried to bring to light the hushed reality of the country, bringing together reflection with criticism, in the search of redemption for a humanity made up of people fallen into poverty and into the oblivion of anonymity”. (Fernando E. Solanas)
For years Pino Solanas has chosen the medium of documentary to show “his” Argentina; it is the natural consequence of a political militancy which has involved him first-hand and of an artistic choice which has from the start seen cinema as a tool for freedom and knowledge. BLACK GOLD is the second instalment of the environmental project started with IMPURE GOLD (2009). The diptych entitled “Terra Sublevada” completes the ambitious fresco of modern day Argentina, which Solanas started in 2004 with Memoria del saqueo and which is now composed of six distinctive parts, which are nonetheless interconnected. This is once more a collective work, in which the director acts as intermediary between his characters and the spectator, in the conviction that only the awareness of the neo-liberalist attack on the dignity of people and communities allows for an adequate and efficient response. (Giorgio Gosetti)
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