Virna y Ernesto / Cine
invites you to the online premiere of the documentary movie
ALEJANDRA
The award winning film about the life of argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik, can be viewed and downloaded free from the internet.
a film by Virna Molina and Ernesto Ardito
102’ / Documentary / Argentina / 2013 / HD / English Subtitles
Link to view online and download the complete film, with English subtitles:
www.virnayernesto.com.ar
SYNOPSIS
The film tells the story of Alejandra Pizarnik: mythic Argentine poet who committed suicide at the age of 36 and whose work later censored by the last Argentine military dictatorship.
The story focuses on the central conflicts that marked her writing, within the context of the avant garde and social upheavals of the 1960s and 70s.
Using an intimate and sensory-based cinematographic language, and a narrative approach that is full of psychological and passionate tensions,
the film submerges the spectator into Alejandra’s inner world in order to attempt to understand her from her creative and human core.
Her personal diaries, letters, poems, as well as accounts by close friends and family, offer us hints about the mysterious path that led her to her self-destruction.
Years after its writer’s death, the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik has been rediscovered by new generations of writers and readers, making her the most read Argentine poet in the world.
Film adaptation of the tv series “Enlightened Memory: Alejandra Pizarnik”
made by Virna Molina and Ernesto Ardito for Encuentro channel.
CREW
Written, directed and produced by: Virna Molina and Ernesto Ardito
Art, cinematography, film editing, sound: Virna Molina and Ernesto Ardito
Executive Producers: Canal Encuentro / Virna y Ernesto
Cast: Vanesa Molina, Carmela and Jerónimo, Isadora and Nika.
With the testimonies of: Myriam Pizarnik, Cristina Piña, Ivonne Bordelois,
Roberto Yahni, Antonio Requeni, Fernando Noy, Mariana Enriquez.
THE FILMMAKERS
Virna Molina and Ernesto ardito are documentary filmmakers from Argentina. Their works for tv and cinemas are very popular in their country.
They were winners of 30 international awards. Their films are mainly historical, political and biographical.
They are disciples of documentary films from the 60’s and 70’s, both the English Direct Cinema as the New Latin American Cinema,
through wich they learned the force of the ideological montage and the active relationship between cinema and political commitment.
Virna and Ernesto are Integral Filmmakers. This means that they do by themselves: the script, the direction, the production and all the technical roles
-camera, editing, photography, costumes, sound and animations- of their films. At the same time, they are the distributors of their movies.
They are in favour of the free circulation of their documentaries by internet.
Films: Raymundo (2003), Heart of the Factory (2008), Nazión (2011), Alejandra (2013), Moreno (2013).
Official web with all films by Virna Molina and Ernesto Ardito, to view online or free download: www.virnayernesto.com.ar
Other links:
Virna y Ernestoon Facebook
Film “Alejandra”on Facebook