Ali Tonak, in the June issue of Fault Lines, writes:
Legendary Argentinean filmmaker Fernando E. Solanas' latest film, A Social Genocide, had its U.S. premiere at the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival. The 2001 collapse of the Argentinean economy and the following resistance, organized horizontally through assemblies in the streets, in the workplace and in the neighborhoods, captured the imagination of global justice activists around the world. San Francisco, being a historic epicenter of various incarnations of anti-capitalism activism, packed the sold-out theater.

Solanas' film is a deeply personal poetic reflection of the history of the neoliberal ransacking of the Argentinean economy. The Spanish title, Memorias del Saque, literally translates into “Memories of the Ransacking”. This title carries a double meaning as the film begins and ends with the ransacking of the supermarkets by a population robbed by generations of neoliberals.

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