Film
The Hour of the Furnaces
- 3:45PM
Hailed as the film that “established the paradigm of revolutionary activist cinema” (Sight & Sound), this epic, three-part documentary deploys a barrage of radical stylistic devices to rail against the scourge of neo-colonialism in Argentina and call for the overthrow of the country’s government. Made and screened in secret as an act of resistance, it’s an essential work of political filmmaking that has lost none of its galvanizing power.
Courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
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