MEMORY OF LOOTING (2003)
MEMORY OF LOOTING (2003)
NOTE OF INTENT:
The
tragedy that we lived with the collapse of the Liberal government of De
la Rua, drove me back to my early days in film, more than 40 years ago,
when the search for a political identity and resistance film and wing
dictatorship, I led to film "The Hour of the Furnaces". Circumstances
have changed and for worse: How was it possible that in the "breadbasket
of the world" go hungry? The country had been devastated by a new type
of aggression, silent, systematic, leaving more dead than the state
terrorism and the Falklands War. In the name of globalization and free
trade, economic prescriptions of international organizations in the
genocide ended social and financial emptying the country. The
responsibility of the governments of Menem and De la Rua does not exempt
the IMF, the World Bank or its constituent countries. Looking windfall
neoracistas plans imposed on us that suppressed acquired social rights
and condemned to death by malnutrition, premature aging or curable
diseases to millions of people. They were crimes against humanity in
peacetime.
Once again, reality imposed me recontextualize the images and
compose a fresh live what we endured during the three decades from the
Videla dictatorship to popular revolt 19 and December 20, 2001, ending
with the government of the Alliance. "Plunder Memory" is my way of
contributing to the debate in Argentina and the world is developing with
the certainty that with globalization dehumanized, "another world is
possible."
Fernando E. Solaria
LETTER TO THE VIEWERS:
Hundreds of times
I have wondered how it is that a country so rich in poverty and hunger
reached such magnitude? What happened to the promises of modernity, work
and welfare pregonaran politicians, businessmen, economists and
journalists enlightened media, if ever the country knew these aberrant
levels of unemployment and destitution? How can we understand the
transfer of public assets to pay the debt if the debt was multiplied
several times compromising the future generations? How much democracy
was possible in mockery of the mandate of the vote, so much degradation
of republican institutions, such submission to external powers, such
impunity, corruption and loss of social rights?
Reply to questions that
left social catastrophe or embarrassing chapters review the recent
history, it would be impossible on the limited margins of a film: it
takes many more, along with research, debates and studies to account for
the magnitude of the catastrophe .
This film was created to contribute
to the memory against forgetting, reconstructing the history of one of
the more severe stages of Argentina to encourage reporting of factors
underpinning economic emptying and social genocide. "Social Genocide" is
also a free and creative film made in the uncertain months of 2002,
when there were no certainties about the political future of the
country. Thirty-five years of "The Hour of the Furnaces", I wanted to
pick up the story from the words and gestures of the characters and
retrieve images in context. Processes and images with their own
characteristics have also beaten to other neighboring countries. It is a
way to contribute to the task of a relaunch plural democratic Argentina
and the debate that the world is facing globalization develops
dehumanized with certainty that "another world is possible."
Fernando
Solanas / March 2004
