Hands, Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke, 1934, Canadá
Nas profundezas da Grande Depressão nos EUA, uma aliança de cineastas radicais lutou para criar um novo género de documentário social. Enfrentaram a crise criando um novo cinema da realidade, infundindo sentimentos nos factos, propaganda na arte e drama na actualidade, para documentar, divulgar e até ajudar a resolver questões importantes de tempos conturbados. Se o New Deal buscava uma outra América, o documentário fazia o mesmo. As câmaras transformadas em armas de colectivos revolucionários (Film and Photo League, Frontier Films), produções ambiciosas do Governo dos EUA e realizadores como Joris Ivens, Leo Hurwitz, Pare Lorentz, Ralph Steiner e Paul Strand atestam uma década de possibilidades e experiências tanto no cinema como na sociedade ao mesmo tempo que mostram a quantidade de desafios contemporâneos que espelham o passado.
São ao todo 58 filmes que compõem a retrospectiva O Documentário em Marcha: Conturbados anos 30 na América do New Deal, programada em colaboração com a Cinemateca Portuguesa, onde acontecerão todas as projecções.
Confira a programação completa abaixo:
The Passaic Textile Strike, Samuel Russac, E.U.A., 1926, 79’
Manhatta, Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, E.U.A., 1921, 10’
H2O, Ralph Steiner, E.U.A. , 1929 , 13’
A Bronx Morning, Jay Leyda, E.U.A., 1931, 14’,
Oil: A Symphony in Motion, M. G. MacPherson, E.U.A., 1933, 8’
Footnote to Fact, Lewis Jacobs, E.U.A., 1933, 8’
Hands, Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke, E.U.A., 1934, 4’,
Today, Esfir Shub, U.R.S.S., 1929, 66’
Workers Newsreel: Bonus March 1932, Leo Seltzer, E.U.A. , 1932, 12’
The Road to Life, Nikolai Ekk, U.R.S.S., 1931 , 119’
Hunger 1932, Workers Film and Photo League, E.U.A., 1933, 18’
Gabriel Over the White House, Gregory La Cava, E.U.A., 1933, 86’
The News Parade of 1934, Hearst Metrotone News, E.U.A., 1934, 11’
The World in Review, Leo Hurwitz, E.U.A., 1933-1934, 7’
America Today, Leo Hurwitz, E.U.A., 1932-1934, 6’
Confidence, William Nolan, E.U.A., 1933, 8’
The Great Depression, Maurice Bailen, E.U.A., 1934, 18’
Century of Progress, Workers Film and Photo League, E.U.A., 1934, 10’
Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert, Hearst Metrotone News, NBC Radio, UCLA, E.U.A., 1939, 8’
One Tenth of our nation, Felix Greene, E.U.A., 1940, 26’
Pie in the Sky, Ralph Steiner, E.U.A., 1935, 22’
Millions of Us, Jack Smith [Slavko Vorkapich], Tina Taylor, E.U.A., 1936, 17’
People of the Cumberland, Sidney Meyers, Jay Leyda, E.U.A., 1937, 21’
The World Today: Sunnyside: The Second Battle of Long Island, NYKino, E.U.A., 1936, 8’
The World Today: Black Legion, NYKino, E.U.A., 1936, 6’
The Wave, Emilio Gómez Muriel, Fred Zinnemann, México, 1936, 65’
A Colour Box, Len Lye, Reino Unido, 1935, 4’
The Face of Britain, Paul Rotha, Reino Unido, 1934, 20’
The Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl, Alemanha, 1935, 114’
The Plow That Broke the Plains, Pare Lorentz, E.U.A., 1936, 29’
Our Daily Bread, King Vidor, E.U.A., 1934, 80’
The Spanish Earth, Joris Ivens, E.U.A., 1937, 53’
The 400 Million, Joris Ivens, John Fernhout, E.U.A., 1938, 53’
Heart of Spain, Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz, E.U.A., 1937, 30’
China Strikes Back, Leo Hurwitz, E.U.A., 1937, 37’
The River, Pare Lorentz, E.U.A., 1937, 31’
Wild River, Elia Kazan, E.U.A., 1960, 110’
Crisis: A Film of ‘The Nazi Way’, Herbert Kline, Hans Burger, Alexander Hammid, E.U.A., 1939, 70’
The Land, Robert J. Flaherty, E.U.A., 1942, 43’
The City, Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke, E.U.A., 1939, 43’
Power and the Land, Joris Ivens, E.U.A., 1940, 39’
Valley Town, Willard Van Dyke, E.U.A., 1940, 35’
Men and Dust, Lee Dick, E.U.A., 1940, 16’
A Place to Live, Irving Lerner, E.U.A., 1941, 17’
…One Third of a Nation…, Dudley Murphy, E.U.A., 1939, 79’
The Fight for Life, Pare Lorentz, E.U.A., 1940, 70’
The Forgotten Village, Herbert Kline, Alexander Hammid, E.U.A., 1941, 67’
White Flood, David Wolff [Ben Maddow], Robert Stebbins [Sidney Meyers], E.U.A., 1940, 15’
The Adventures of Chico, Horace Woodard, Stacy Woodard, E.U.A., 1938, 60’
Native Land, Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand, E.U.A., 1942, 89’
Strange Victory, Leo Hurwitz, E.U.A., 1948, 75’
Song of the Rivers, Joris Ivens, R.D.A, 1954, 111’
To Hear Your Banjo Play, Willard Van Dyke, Irving Lerner, E.U.A., 1946, 17’
Emergency Ward, Leo Hurwitz, E.U.A., 1952, 17’
Young Fighter, Leo Hurwitz, E.U.A., 1953, 30’
Confrontation, Maurice Bailen, E.U.A., 1975, 19’
The Savage Eye, Joseph Strick, Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, E.U.A., 1960, 68’
Look Park, Ralph Steiner, E.U.A., 1974, 11’
