Movies: Fernando Martín Peña

A history of Argentine horror cinema, from its beginnings in 1934 to present day. It is a path of defeat, dead-end streets and triumphs, where the protagonists will lead us through the lesser known hallways of local horror....

A documentary about the making of the final version of "Metropolis" by restoring all material from different sources....

It is an approach to the figure of Fernando Martín Peña, but it is also a film about cinema, about a transcendental movement in its history, its spaces and rituals....

A documentary of absurdist humor that delves into the immaturity of Witold Gombrowicz, the controversial Polish writer who lived in Argentina and wrote the first existentialist novel....

Documentary on Argentine actress and sex symbol Isabel Sarli, including clips from her films and interviews with her and other actors....

Argentinian film historians find a complete print of Fritz Lang's “Metropolis” (1927) at Buenos Aires Film Museum and take it to Germany for its restoration....

For many years, Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of the best places in the world for a film buff; but from the mid-sixties onwards, successive authoritarian governments shaped the will of the spectators, dictating what could be seen and what could no...

After finding the soundtrack of Tararira, the only Argentine surrealist film shot in 1936, lost since then, and starring their great-grand uncles, the Aguilar brothers set out to unravel the family history at the crossroads of the great political eve...

Documentary about Argentine film collector Alfredo Li Gotti....

A new neighbor arrives at the building with a strange suitcase. He doesn't receive visitors or talk to anyone, but a light flashes under his door. Only Lila knows his secret: she spies on him from her window and every night they share the ritual. The...

After almost 20 years, Fernando Martín Peña returns to the Faculty of Arts of the National University of La Plata to teach the subject History of Cinema II. Little by little, the reflections, questions and contradictions of the students who wonder ab...

The most transcendent and controversial event since the invention of the seventh art: the disappearance of photographic film. What for many people seems to be simply the result of technological evolution, brings with it paradoxes and contradictions t...

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An extensive interview with Fernando Solanas and an important amount of unpublished material, the documentary describes the process of making the most influential film of Latin American cinema. It was done exclusively to accompany its home release....

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