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political documentary

The documentary film genre is the oldest, but paradoxically also one of the least popular. It started with the film when brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière recorded output of the factory workers or The arrival of a train to . The inventors of the cinema at the time did not understand the usefulness of the image. The development of language come from the hand of other filmmakers. While it continued to make documentaries or registering political events, social or sporting activities, the foundations of the genre's established filmmaker like Robert Flaherty with Nanook of the North (1922) and Dziga Vertov with Chelovek s Kinno-apparatom (1929) (1), making everyone in a school, an aspect of how to represent the reality on the big screen.

documentary film is called taking or recorded images of reality around us everyday stories that we see from many points of view-manipulation handles the director. There are many ways to present the "life itself" so that viewers often wonder how much is fiction in a documentary film and how much there is in fiction.

Documentaries most popular are those with educational or entertainment purposes, show the nature, landscapes or cities as tourist destinations (2). Less popular and are restricted view documentaries with political content, transmitters and violators of ideologies, which by nature are uncomfortable in the circles of power. The first was the Soviet political documentary. Lenin and then Stalin saw the film the potential for mass indoctrination basically ignorant and often illiterate. Goebbels foresaw the same power of seduction of the image and promoted the career of Leni Riefenstahl documentary (3). The first political documentary not covered by an autocratic regime was the Dutchman Joris Ivens who drew attention with her short Regen (1929) (4).

Recognized fiction filmmakers have ventured into the film. Sergei Eisenstein with Que viva Mexico! (1932). Luis Buñuel with Hurdes, land without bread (1933). John Ford during World War II. Glauber Rocha during the Rose Revolution in Portugal (5). Other renowned names such as Jean-Luc Godard to Martin Scorsese or are added to the list.

In this century, and the Oscar for Best Documentary for Bowling for Columbine (2002) by Michael Moore (6), gender unfairly delayed getting some more ground. The librarian of today assumes a role of complainant. System blasts accusing the groups of power to destroy the planet environmentally, to undermine the morale of society, organized crime and mismanagement, the exaggerated cult of Capital as the supreme good. The political documentary uncomfortable and it becomes a voice of protest in the midst of a silent ocean where communication is subject to advertising budget.

films with political content should be compulsory viewing. Some of them should generate discussions and roundtables. Raising awareness of people and make them take an ideological stance that unfortunately neoliberal wave has been sluggish. To this end, the faculty of Humanities at the Universidad Privada del Norte, organized in the last days of November is an example of political documentary cinema, with the intention of raising awareness of the fierce and unkind side of globalization. Images are hard to us to reflect and alert us to the morass in which we are submerged. The titles of the cycle are: The Corporation (2004) Marck Achbar & Jennifer Abbot , Mondovino (2004) by Jonathan Nossiter, Le cauchemar Darwin (2004) by Hubert Sauper, Nos amis of banque (1997) by Peter Chappell A Decent Factory (2005) by Thomas Balmes, Ouvrière du monde (2000) by Marie-France Collard and Le Banque des Humbles (2000) of Armirul Arham.

(1) Chelovek s Kinno-apparatom is the most famous documentary Vertov, but not the first. Since 1919 had been making experimental short films where rupture would refine his style of filmmaking. (2) Walter Ruttman did in 1927 Berlin - Die Symphonie der Grossstadt , film inspired by the experimental work made by Vertov, giving a peculiar vision of how life a day in the German capital. (3) According to gossip at the time, Goebbels and Riefenstahl were lovers and that's why he chose to become the official director of the Third Reich. Despite its ideological virulence, Riefenstahl's documentaries are highly valued for their aesthetic beauty. (4) Ivens was a consummate Communist, ideological affiliation is reflected in all his movies (5) Following the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Latin America appeared in several documentary inzqueirda committed to being perhaps the most important films Time furnace Pino Solanas and The Battle of Chile Patricio Guzman. (6) Moore received an Oscar for the four days of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and issued a series of memorable tirade against Bush and his cronies. From that day on freedom of expression was suppressed in USA. Entertainment emissions are no longer "live" but are transmitted with five to ten seconds of delay to avoid a repeat of the incident. Two years after Moore received the Palme d'Or at Cannes for Fahrenheit 9 / 11 .