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The Art of Resistance

by Alexandra Guité
A documentary about political art and cultural resistance in post-2001 Argentina
2007  ·  1h1m  ·  Canada
Spanish
English subs
About the Film

Argentina’s troubled history, culminating in the major crisis of 2001, has seen the rise of a wave of original artistic and cultural expression. The documentary The Art of Resistance introduces us to several creators and artist collectives who use artistic expression as a means to deliver powerful social statements, explore unbridled creativity, and participate actively in constructing a new reality. The Art of Resistance is an inventive treatment of these artists’ responses to the critical situations they are living. Born in a climate of urgency, their creativity is without boundaries, their strategies constantly renewed. The 85-year-old visual artist León Ferrari launches a vigorous national debate by denouncing the Catholic Church’s dark underside, factories open their doors to artists who conceive performances among the workers, patients at a psychiatric asylum join together to form an artistic front and charismatic actor Julio Arrieta makes a movie about the extraterrestrial invasion of his shantytown.

The Art of Resistance is a penetrating portrait of the artistic and political methods of cultural resistance in Argentina. The film follows these inspiring and revolutionary characters as they struggle to meet the challenges of economic and cultural disintegration and critically examine proposed solutions to the problems of the day. It illustrates humanity’s profound capacity for creativity and resilience in the face of adversity. The spectator is invited to witness inspiring examples of this potential as they unfurl against the backdrop of Argentina’s ongoing crisis.

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Festivals and Awards
Editor
Andrea Yannino
Co-director
Christopher Hills-Wright
Producer
Alexandra Guité
Sound Editor
François Senneville, Emmanuel Madan, Ariel Copello, Jesica Suarez, Marcelo Galluzo
Soundtrack Composer
Diego S. Vainer
About the Director

Alexandra Guité

Alexandra Guité is a filmmaker and videojournalist whose documentary films are innovative and engaging treatments of profoundly moving human stories.  She completed the Institut National de l’Image et du Son’s rigorous film direction program in 2006.  She also holds Master’s degrees both in Philosophy and Political Science.  Versatile and focused, she can research, write, direct, film and edit provocative political and point-of-view documentaries as well as introspective portraits.
Her first feature documentary The Art of Resistance was presented throughout the world, causing a stir on its passage.  It zoomed into the intense experience of political and social artists in the aftermaths of the Argentine meltdown. She has since explored a broad variety of subjects in her films such as the aftermaths of a famous land expropriation in The Island, the radical politics of Latin-American social movements, noise pollution, silence and spirituality, organic agriculture, residential schools, gentrification and homelessness.
In 2010, she wrote, researched, directed and coproduced the 12 films of the NFB’s award winning Web Documentary Sound Ecology. She then roamed the Arctic and Canada’s West Coast directing short documentaries on social problematics for Canada’s National Broadcaster (CBC/Radio-Canada).  She now works for CBC/Radio-Canada in Vancouver, where she creates every week a short riveting film on social and human issues, intimately portraying original and courageous characters.  Deeply interested in human dynamics of resiliency and the art of visual storytelling, she is also developing a documentary that dives into the stories of a legendary family from her native village on the Gaspé coast.

 

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