Between Confluence and Dispersion: the Latin American Video Movement and its Meetings in Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro and Cuzco

Abstract

Between 1987 and 1992 independent filmmakers, producers, ngo, grassroots organizations, artists, social communicators, researches and educators formed the Latin American Video Movement: a heterogeneous network of experiences that was concerned with establishing cooperative relationships and avoiding atomization, promoting development and organization of national groups in pursuit of democratic change, improve and increase the fluidity of information and circulation of productions, socialize partial learning and generate areas of training. It was especially at the self-convened meetings where the filmmakers substantiated those objectives, and shaped the identity of the Movement.

This article is part of a larger work where the life of the Network is diachronously reconstructed through the analysis of its instances of dialogue and training. Here we will focus on understanding the questions and dilemmas, aspirations and contradictions that the filmmakers went through, restoring the characteristics of the meetings of Montevideo 1990, Rio de Janeiro 1991 and Cuzco 1992. We will do it from the analysis of documents, the research of archives newspaper and an oral history work with interviews with some protagonists of that time.