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EL DÍA QUE ME QUIERAS |
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(The Day You’ll Love Me) |
| A non-narrative film investigating
death and the power of photography, El
Día Que Me Quieras is a meditation on the last pictures taken of
Ernesto Che Guevara, as he lay dead on a table surrounded by his captors,
in Bolivia in 1967. Not a political documentary in the traditional sense, the film alternates between evocation and straight reportage, centering on an interview with the Bolivian photographer Freddy Alborta. Suffused with a sense of mystery, El Día Que Me Quieras is about our assimilation of history. |
Credits When Che Guevara was captured and killed, a wire photograph of his body
was transmitted worldwide. It depicted the corpse in a room full of gleeful
military men. The photograph, by Freddy Alborta, has been compared
by John Berger to Mantegna’s Dead Christ and to Rembrandt’s
The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Tulp. The film centers on an interview
with Freddy
Alborta, his recollections from October 10, 1967, the dramatic photographs
taken by him on that day, the intricate sets of international headlines
found during our research, as well as the rare newsreel footage of this
disturbing event |
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Review quotes
: “El Día Que Me
Quieras is a formidable documentary based on the photograph of Che Guevara’s
cadaver surrounded by his murderers -- a photograph published throughout
the world and compared to masterworks of Rembrandt and Mantegna. In the
film Leandro Katz interviews Freddy Alborta, the photographer behind this
image, as he meditates on the theatrical pose of apparent victory staged
by Bolivian generals and CIA operatives; an image which in time would turn
itself against them. Unpublished shots taken on that day, a native Bolivian
ceremony honoring Che, and never before seen documentary footage, make of
this film a powerful and moving offering.”
Rolando Perez Betancourt - Granma |
| Festivals
and Prizes : *Coral
Prize - Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La
Habana, Cuba *Best Documentary - Festival Internacional de Cine de
Valdivia, Chile - *Special Mention - San Juan CineFestival, Puerto
Rico, USA - *Honorable Mention -International Short Film Festival,
Iran - *2000 Award of Merit in Film, Latin American Studies Association
- Selected Exhibitions and Conferences : •Visible Evidence Conference, San Francisco State University - • Cooper Union, Visiting Artist’s Series - •The Film Center, School of The Art Institute of Chicago - •Cinemateca Ecuatoriana - Casa de la Cultura - •The Millennium Film Workshop - •Videoteca del Sur - •New Documentaries, The Museum of Modern Art - Nations, Pollinations and Dislocations, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design - •Frames of Reference, The Guggenheim Museum - •The American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art - •Official Selection, 2000 Society for Photograpic Education Conference Film Festival - •Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Argentina - •Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina - •Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina - •Gwangju Biennale 2010 '10,000 Lives' - South Korea - •Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC – 'Proyecto para el día que me quieras y la danza de fantasmas'- Mexico, 2018 - •PROA 21 – 'Proyecto para el día que me quieras' Buenos Aires, 2018 Selected Bibliography: •The
Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin
America in the Cold War (Convergences: Inventories of the Present) by Jean Franco, Harvard University Press |
•This project
has been produced in English and in Spanish versions. For further
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