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One of the most lively documentaries of the 2014 edition of Bafici consists of the chaotic and rich record of the experience of Cucaño, an experimental art group that decided to move schemes in the hard years of the last Argentine military dictatorship.Very young youths engaged in plastic, poetry and instant art in the street when the oppressive and dark climate had become customary. The film contains archival material, urgent and immediate records of those activities that united the fun with the challenge. By itself, that material is a work of art, a constant work in progress. But the film does not stop there, nor does it celebrate, only, a perfect and lost moment: it is also the story of what happened with the protagonists, with that group. Where are the youth of yesterday and what remains of them. A reflection on time and the instant, chaotic as any work of Cucaño, as his ultimate work.

Documentary about Juan Uviedo, who was born around 1930 and died in 2009, who during the military dictatorship of Argentina set up the Theatrical Investigations Workshop in which a group of young leftist militants studied theater as a way to continue their political activity without passing Totally to the clandestinity. Forced to escape to Brasil Uviedo, who now lives in a small Brazilian town, São Thomé das Letras, Minas Gerais, where he is known as Juan da Montanha, and his disciples created an organization to shelter poor children.

© 2017 by Mauri Kurcbard.
 

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