Argentine filmmaker Fernando “Pino” Solanas died in Paris on November 6 at the age of 84, a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time of his death, he was Argentina’s ambassador to UNESCO, ...
Fernando Solanas, who burst on the international scene with the groundbreaking documentary "Hour of the Furnaces," is back to non-fiction with a jaw-dropper, "Social Genocide," that exposes the ...
Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Solanas, pictured above, co-founded one of the iterations of “Third Cinema” in his home country. Photo courtesy of Nicolás Eduardo Feredjian via Creative Commons. Four ...
In 'A Journey to the Fumigated Towns,' militant documentary director Fernando E. Solanas ('The Hour of the Furnaces') reveals the destruction wrought by large-scale soybean farming in Argentina. By ...
PARIS — Wide House, one of France’s premier documentary sales houses, has added three more titles to its Berlin sales slate: Ruth Beckermann’s “The Waldheim Waltz”; “A Journey to the Fumigated Towns,” ...
I had feared, after reports of this film s flirtation with political defeat, that the great Fernando Solanas had finally gone soft. Fat chance. Social Genocide proves to be every bit the agit-prop ...
Veteran Argentine director Fernando Solanas opened up about art and the difficulties he faced during the initial stages of career during the G. Aravindan memorial seminar at Nila theatre, organised as ...
He helped propel a new wave of politically charged moviemaking and served as a lawmaker. He died of complications of the coronavirus. By Daniel Politi This obituary is part of a series about people ...
BUENOS AIRES – When Argentina’s Senate debated a law legalizing abortion in 2018, Fernando Solanas, then a senator, argued fervently in favor of it in part by declaring that sexual pleasure was a ...