Segunda Vez.

Format:

Video

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Masotta, Oscar, 1930-1979.

Masotta, Oscar.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Second time around

Place of Publication:

[city], state], [country] : Grasshopper Film, 2018.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

Segunda Vez, from director Dora Garcia (The Joycean Society), orbits the figure of Oscar Masotta - a pivotal theorist in the Argentinian avant-garde from the 1950s to the 1970s, whilst not being a biopic about him. Masotta's ideas on Lacanian psychoanalysis, politics and art (happenings and dematerialized art) changed the artistic landscape of that 1960s Buenos Aires, preceding the Dirty War and with it the end of the avant-garde. The title, Segunda Vez, originates from a homonymous story written by a contemporary of Masotta's, Julio Cortázar, which recounts the climate of psychosis and uncertainty caused by the trauma of disappearances in Argentina. Intertwining politics, psychoanalysis, and performance art, Segunda Vez weaves together a sequence of seemingly disparate scenes that are bound by the act of repetition and observation: posters plastered along a wall advertise their own transmission - a phantom message in a bustling city; two audiences converge on a cliff top, divided in their knowledge of the scenario in which they are participating; a person, tied up in white cloth and ropes, is carried and left in a forest; the brief appearance of a helicopter causes some excitement and consternation; a group of poor and aging people is assembled on a podium, paid to endure violent light and sound for an hour, while an audience observes them; a library brings reading groups together who are aware they're being watched; after a mysterious official summons, strangers chat in a waiting room anticipating what may happen-one young man among them has been called to return for a second time around.

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