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Film Movement
1990s–present

Argentine New Wave

Latin American Cinema

Lucrecia Martel's domestic spaces thick with class and colonial memory. Pablo Trapero's social realism. A cinema of surfaces — the heat, the bodies, the unsaid — that makes visible what Argentine society prefers to ignore.

Cinema of Argentina refers to the film industry based in Argentina. The Argentine cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of Argentina or by Argentine filmmakers abroad.

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No. 15 · Argentina · Buenos Aires
A painter of emptiness and duration who strips cinema to its most austere elements. His films move through landscape and silence like a body through water — time becomes texture, waiting becomes meaning. The antithesis of narrative drive.
No. 12 · Argentina · Salta
The archaeologist of silence and stasis. Her films move like fever dreams through colonial ruins and domestic prisons — time dilates, bodies languish, the camera refuses to look away. She renders inertia as a form of violence.
Argentina
b. 16 February 1936, Buenos Aires, Argentina