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Joris Ivens - ...A Valparaíso (1962)
27 min | Xvid 608 x 480 | 1492 kb/s | 128 kb/s mp3 | 25 fps | 350 MB + 3% recovery
French | Subtitles: English, Spanish and Dutch .srt | Genre: Documentary/Short
Invited to teach in Chile in 1962, Ivens and his students constructed a marvelous "city symphony" of Chile’s famous port city, long endowed with an exotic flavor owing to its well-established trade with Asia. It’s fascinating to see how Ivens updates a cinematic form invented in the 1920s to the film style and concerns of the 1960s. Chris Marker wrote the commentary.

In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made ...à Valparaiso, one of his most poetic films. Contrasting the prestigious history of the seaport with the present the film sketches a portret of thcity, built on 42 hills, with its wealth and poverty, its daily life on the streets, the stairs, the rack railways and in the bars. Although the port has lost its importance, the rich past is still present in the impoverished city. The film echoes this ambiguous situation in its dialectical poetic style, interweaving the daily life reality (of 1962) with the history of the city and changing from black and white to color, finally leaving us with hopeful perspective for the children who are playing on the stairs and hills of this beautiful town.

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El gran documentalista holandés Joris Ivens asociado al cine club que por ese tiempo funcionaba en la Universidad de Chile realiza este cortometraje de la ciudad de Valparaiso en Chile, mostrando el singular paisaje de un lugar que habita con un pie en el cerro y otro en el mar, anclada en un tiempo que desapareció luego de la apertura del Canal de Panamá, lo que congeló su existir de principal puerto del pacífico sur por aquel tiempo.

Con perfecto ritmo visual y hermoso relato realizado por otro grande como Chris Marker, este documental busca mostrar las contradicciones y singularidades de una ciudad formada por marineros de todos lados del mundo (españoles, ingleses,franceses,etc), quienes luego de la apertura del Canal de Panamá dejan una ciudad casi inmóvil al paso del tiempo, con una población que en la actualidad habita los mismas calles formadas un siglo atrás.

Une poétique évocation du célèbre port chilien de Valparaiso...
"Valparaiso est une ville extraordinaire…une ville qui a tout connu : les Espagnols, l’incendie, le tremblement de terre, les pirates, la tempête, tout. Une ville torturée." Joris Ivens

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