Resumen

PASSARELLI, Franco. THE BEGINNINGS OF DOCUMENTARY FILM PRODUCTION IN CHACO: SCIENTIFIC CINEMA AND OTHERNESS RELATIONSHIPS IN THE 60S AND 70S. Folia [online]. 2021, n.40, pp.45-78. ISSN 0325-8238.  http://dx.doi.org/10.30972/fhn.0404715.

This article discusses about production and representation on the first documentary films made by filmmakers of the province of Chaco, from the early 1960s to 1976. The analysis focuses primarily on production processes, where it stands out that there was an incipient production circuit in the city of Resistencia, sustained mainly by the social networks between the filmmakers and the promotion of the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE). In what regards representations, two major categories of analysis are proposed, such as “scientific cinema” and “cinema of difference”, based on the meanings shared between by the films. The cases of the filmmakers to work with are Ángel Fernández Pissano, Juan Carlos Vidarte, Jorge Omar Ott, Jorge Castillo, and Isaac Belsky, who produced approximately twenty-five short films in the aforementioned period. The study of these films becomes relevant to recover a material that has been invisible in the history of the Argentine cinema and, at the same time, contribute to the historical memory of the Northeast region from its own filmmakers.

Palabras clave : Chaco cinema; Production processes; Scientific cinema; Otherness..