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DESCRIPTION:This is a DIY event, so please bring beverages and/or snacks to share. 
 \n\nConsidered by many to be the greatest political documentary of all 
 time, Fernando Solanas' three-part La Hora de los Hornos (Hour of the 
 Furnaces, 1968) is a blistering analysis of neocolonialism & resistance in 
 both his native Argentina & throughout Latin America.  The film was both 
 shot & screened clandestinely at the commencement of Argentina's notorious 
 "dirty war", shown to sympathetic groups of anarchists, workers, & 
 revolutionaries (with cues in the film to "stop the projector & start the 
 discussion" at various points!)\n\n"The title of this three-part agitprop 
 documentary comes from a quote Che Guevara used to open what was to become 
 his last public statement, the 'Message to the Tricontinental', in 1967: 
 "It's the hour of the furnaces and only the light shall be seen." The 
 author of the quote is José Martí, Cuba's nineteenth century national 
 hero. This double reference, to a revolutionary who died fighting Spanish 
 colonialism, and to a revolutionary who had just died fighting 
 neo-colonialism, cues the viewer to think of the parallelisms between 
 contemporary      liberation struggles and Latin American wars of 
 independence in the nineteenth century; namely, a voluntarism and a 
 nationalist anti-imperialism that effectively trumped other epistemological 
 categories. In this regard, the film's strong bias against validating 
 questions of power that fall outside the realm of political economy is a 
 reflection of its times. At the same time, however, this limitation should 
 not blind us to the film's greatest strength: the clear articulation of a 
 revolutionary discourse through an equally revolutionary means of 
 representation." --Paul Schroeder,\n\nNote - La Hora De Los Hornos is a 
 long film; it runs close to three hours. But rest assured there will be 
 plenty of space in our lounge should viewers need a break or even better, a 
 place to discuss the ideas brought up in this historic work. See you there! 
 \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/01/18631146.php
SUMMARY:La Hora De Los Hornos - The Hour Of The Furnaces, (1968) directed by Fernando Solanas
LOCATION:New Nothing Cinema\n16 Sherman Street\nBetween 6th and 7th, Folsom and 
 Harrison\nSF CA\nFree to all.\nQuestions? 415.255.6304
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/01/18631146.php
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