Cruel
en el cartel is a stroll in Buenos Aires guided by the woman's image
on advertising bills and signs. It's also a homage to the figure of the
woman like fetish and permanent icon of publicity and propaganda. The
main thread of the film is the Tango Afiches (words by Homero Expósito
and music by Atilio Stampone, written in 1956 and sung by Roberto Goyeneche
in 1973). The film uses the language of the video clip, but with documentary
essence, because its object is to show the town with a diferent view.
Cruel en el cartel is part a larger project integrating other musical
themes.
Duration: 3 mins 56 s. Orginal
format : Mini DV
Produced in 2000
Shot in Buenos Aires Language: spanish Production and photography: Raúl Manrupe Final cut-pro: Alejandro Chab Artistic director: Maximiliano Sánchez Correa Production assistants: Eduardo Mangialardi, Ricardo Palmieri Photography assistant: Martin Manrupe
Enregistré sur Sony Video edition, compression and digitalization
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Shot in Buenos Aires between march and november 2000, the short film has
been shown in the Muestra de Documentales de América Latina, à
Huelva, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain and in the Rencontres des Cinemas
Latinoamericains 2002, in Toulouse, France.
Afiches
(1956)
Words: Homero Expósito
Music: Atilio Stampone
Cruel, en el cartel.
La propaganda manda cruel en el cartel.
Y en el fetiche de un afiche de papel,
Se vende la ilusión ¡Se rifa el corazón!
Y apareces tu, vendiendo el último girón de juventud.
¡Cargándome otra vez, la cruz!
Cruel en el cartel, te ríes corazón.
¡Dan ganas de balearse en un rincón!
Ya da la noche a la cancel su piel de ojera.
Ya moja el aire su pincel y hace con él la primavera.
¡Pero qué! Si están tus cosas pero tu no estás.
Porque has quedado para todos, ya,
como un desnudo de vidriera.
Luché a tu lado para ti ¡Por Dios! y te perdí.
Yo te di un hogar
Siempre fui pobre pero yo te di un hogar.
Se me gastaron las sonrisas de luchar,
Luchando para ti, sangrando para ti.
Luego, la verdad, que es restregarse con arena el paladar
Y ahogarse sin poder gritar.
Yo te di un hogar; fue culpa del amor.
¡Dan ganas de balearse en un rincón!
Ya da la noche a la cancel su piel de ojera.
Ya moja el aire su pincel y hace con él la primavera.
¡Pero qué! Si están tus cosas pero tu no estás.
Porque has quedado para todos, ya,
como un desnudo de vidriera.
Luché a tu lado para ti ¡Por Dios! y te perdí.
Raul Ignacio Manrupe was born in Buenos Aires in 1960.
Historian
of the cinema, next to Alejandra Portela is the author of an Argentine
Film dictionary (Corregidor, 1995), reference book for investigators,
critical and aficionados. This book classifies and locates within his
historical context more than 2,000 Argentine sonorous films from 1930.
The edition of a second volume will be published soon. As a journalist,
Raul has collaborated in magazines specialized like Film, Cosa
and El Amante.
Graduate
in publicity by the Universidad LED El Salvador, his work as advertising
designer was rewarded by several national and international prices.
Fan
to graphic archaeology, Raul has exposed photos and posters of his private
collection. He dedicate to film production since 2000. Cruel en el
cartel is his first docu-clip, first step in an ambitious work aiming
at showing its city, Buenos Aires, in a different documentary way, through
various illustrative musical topics.
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