Other Worlds

Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the 'new Argentine cinema' phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films, including those by Lucrecia Martel and Sergio Rejtman.

Introduction On the Existence of the New Argentine Cinema The Thousand and One Ways to Make a Film Changes in Artistic Production Aesthetic Paths PART II: FILM, THE NARRATION OF A WORLD Nomadism and Sedentarism Dispersion and Fixity (between La ciénaga and Pizza, birra, faso) Intensities of Faces and Bodies (Rapado and Todo Juntos) The Return of the Documentary The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Renouncement and Liberty in a Lisandro Alonso Movie Commodities and Experience Cinema of Remains: Lisandro Alonso's Los muertos Silvia Prieto, or Love at Thirty Sound, Track Separate La Niña Santa and the Closure of Performance Los Guantes Mágicos: Noises on the Surface The Use of Genre: Trips and Detours Comedy: Speed and Chance (Tan de repente and Sábado) Pablo Trapero's El Bonaerense: The Genre of Corporatism PART III: A WORLD WITHOUT NARRATION (POLITICAL INVESTIGATION) Politics Beyond Politics Goodbye to 'The People' Nostalgia for Work Words that Wound: Discrimination in Bolivia Los Rubios: Mourning, Frivolity, and Melancholy Testimony of a Dissolution Appendices The World of Cinema in Argentina The Policy of Actors Argentine Films that Premiered Between 1997-2005