“Por los cine-clubs” Exchange Dynamics Between Argentine and Uruguayan Film Clubs in the Magazine Gente de Cine (1951-1957)

Abstract

The Latin American cineclubism emerged early, in the late 1920s, drawing inspiration from European experiences. Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico and other countries in the region had pioneering film clubs in those years and were the antecedent of a second wave of cineclubism that began in the 1940s. The Argentine magazine Gente de Cine (1951-1957), edited by the homonym film society – in turn, the founding institution of the Argentine Cinematheque – reported on this movement and the links that existed among its protagonists, especially in its section “Por los cine-clubs”. In this article we propose an analysis, based on reading this publication, of the ties between the institutions of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, and the ways in which they were expressed during the 1950s.