Cinema and politicization in Argentina. Jorge Cedrón's first films (1963-1971)

Abstract

This article proposes an approach to the filmmaker Jorge Cedrón, whose work and activity prior to the film Operación masacre (1972), a key work of Argentine militant cinema, has been little explored. Like other filmmakers who later turned to openly political cinema, Cedrón began his career influenced by the renewal that the so-called Generation of the 60s meant. In this context, I propose an approach to his first three films: the short films La vereda de enfrente (1963) and El otro oficio (1967), and the feature film El habilitado (1971), inserting them into the political-cultural plot of the period, with the purpose of contributing from this particular case to the discussions both on the ruptures and the continuities in specific itineraries of radicalization, as well as about the general politicization of the Argentine film field.