Fernando Birri
Fernando Birri ( born 1925 in Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine film director, film theorist, poet and puppeteer. He is considered one of, if not the "Father of the New Latin American Cinema " ( Gabriel García Márquez ).
Biography
Birri - descendant of Italian emigrants - studied film at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome. His studies he concludes from there in 1952. Already during his studies he turns 1951, the documentary Seliunte and Alfabeto Nocturne. Together with Mario Verdone, a professor at the Centro Sperimentale, he leads profane directed Immagini popolari iciliane sacre e. He also wrote the screenplay for the film One is One.
1953/1954 he is involved in the filming of movies Ai Margini della Metropoli by Carlo Lizzani and Il Vittorio de Sica Tetto. The screenplay for the latter wrote - as common in de Sica - Cesare Zavattini, the Birri has deeply impressed and encouraged even as a lecturer at the university. As an actor Birri is seen in the film Gli Sbandati. ! 955 he brings the scenario of El indio Fernandez on paper.
On his return to Argentina, he founded in the year 195, the Instituto de la Universidad del Litoral de Cinematografia in his hometown of Santa Fe. It is the first in this form film school in Latin America. Together with students, he turns in the years 1956 to 1958 the documentary Tire dié ( Throw the penny ). Birri brings his ideas in a text accompanying this film - he called him a manifesto - to express. "I am all for national, realistic and popular movie"
In 1960 he turned Buenos dias, Buenos Aires, on behalf of the Instituto Nacional de Cinematografia Argentino. Being in the same year -authored "Manifesto for a national realistic, critical and popular cinema " made him one of the founding figures of the New Latin American Cinema. He cemented this reputation by the film Los inundados '' (1961 ), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and presented at the Festival in Karlovy Vary and excellent.
In 1962, he turns the documentary La Pampa grigia and published the book " La escuela Dokumentas de Santa Fe ", which documents his work as a teacher in his school, and the resulting projects. Birri is now perceived as a filmmaker and the world as a representative of Argentina takes part in numerous international conferences.
1965 force political change in his homeland the filmmakers to leave Argentina. From a distance, he has experience as forbidden his films and he led the school is closed. After a bleak odyssey through Central and South America, Birri decides to go back to Italy. There he wrote together with the writer Vasco Pratolini the script time D' America. The film is never rotated, the script will appear in early 2011 in a small Italian publisher in book form. For Birris future work the experience of exile, the failure of his school and the growing disenchantment with his views expressed in the context of Latin America ideas will shape. In 1966, he rotates the short film Castagnino, romano diario (1966 ), and writes with Ansano Gianarelli on the script for the Sierra Maestra in 1967 arrives in Italy in the cinemas. Birri occurs in this film as an actor.
In the same year Birri begins work on his - as he says - " dark opus magnum " ORG. Over ten years, he is in this film adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella " The Transposed Heads ", which, in turn, on an Indian legend, work. ORG is considered one of the most consistent experimental films of all time, in one of the main roles Terence Hill is seen, who also co-financed the completion of the film. His debut ORG 1979 at the Film Festival in Venice. The audience - especially connoisseurs of Birris earlier work - responded, as well as film criticism, split on the film, the Birri has explicitly called Cinema Experience.
1983 turns Birri the movie " Rafael Alberti, un retrato del poeta por Fernando Birri '', a portrait of the Spanish artist in his Roman exile mid -80s Birri increasingly turning back to Latin American topics remitente: Nicaragua - Carta al Mundo. . 1984 emerged is an expression of solidarity with the Nicaraguan revolution. Mi hijo el Ché In Ernesto Guevara Lynch told using family records from the life of his son Ché Guevara.
An important impetus for the Latin American filmmaking presented the " 1st International Festival of New Latin American Cinema " which will take place in Havana in 1979. There Birris early work and his commitment to the development of an independent Latin American film was appreciated. At least so Birri has established itself as one of the great father figures of this cinema.
In 1982 he founded at the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida (Venezuela ), the " Laboratorio de outpatient poeticas Cinematogáficas - Catedral Glauber Rocha ", which then in Rome, Bilbao, Mexico City, Managua, Bogotá, Medellín, Maputo, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Buenos Aires a variety of projects and courses organized.
In 1985 he was invited by the "Instituto Nacional de Cinematografia Argentino " to officially participate in the cultural life of his native land again after 22 years; He returns to his roots as a filmmaker, the filmmaker is formed, and restores the seminar " Memory and Future: The Documentary School of Santa Fe and the New Latin American Cinema " in life, its practical result is a new film school.
The highpoint in Birris life is the foundation of the " International Film and Television School" in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. She has officially started its work in December 1986. It should - so Birri - a training center for filmmakers from Latin America, the Caribbean, be from Africa and Asia. Quick bürgert for this school the nickname "The School of the three worlds " one. Many now recognized filmmakers from around the world enjoyed their training there.
1988 turns Birri his hitherto last major feature film "Un senor muy viejo con unas alas enormous " after a story of long time friend Gabriel García Márquez. The film celebrates at the International Film Festival in Venice made its debut and is awarded the prize for the best film music. 1994/94 was the documentary film essay Sur, sur, sur. Birris most recent film friuliana Elegia ( Elegy Friulianische ), an essay dealing with Birris ancestors who came from the Friuli, in 2007 came out.