Documentary filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer was the founder of Cine de laBase in Argentina, a group with close ties to Grupo Cine Liberacion and other third cinema" movements of the late '60s and early '70s. They were" dedicated to bringing revolutionary films to the people, and aesthetics and entertainment were secondary. In 1976, Gleyzer was abducted and disappeared by Argentina's military dictatorship. This three-disc retrospective of his films includes Mexico: The Frozen Revolution (1971, 65 mins.), a socio-political analysis of the betrayal of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. The director uses rare newsreel footage of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata in conjunction with footage of the Tlatelolco massacre at the 1968 Olympic Games to comment on the failure of revolution in his own time. The Traitors (1973, 105 mins.), Gleyzer's only fiction film, is a compelling political thriller about the life of a trade union militant who is gradually corrupted by union bureaucracy during the Peronist movement. These films are joined by eight shorts that reflect Gleyzer's commitment to social change in Latin America: The Land Burns (1964, 12 mins.); Pottery Makers (1965, 25 mins.); It Happened in Hualfin (1966, 50 mins.), which comprises three shorts; Our Malvinas Islands (1966, 25 mins.); Swift (1971, 12 mins.); Don't Forgive, Don't Forget (1973, 30 mins.); The AADirected by: Gleyzer, RaymundoRunning time: 230Year: 2008Spanish with English Subtitles
