YThe film to Osvaldo Bayer 6 points
(Argentina, 2025)
Address and script: Fabio Zurita.
Duración: 76 minutes.
Interpreters: Osvaldo Bayer, David Viñas, Eduardo Galeano, Hebe de Bonafini, León Rozitchner, Leonardo Fabio, Fabio Zurita and Diego Capusotto (narration).
Today at 20 in the Gaumont Room; May 7 at 20 at the Cine Theater Helios, El Palomar; May 10 at 20 in the INCAA space of Rauch, province of Buenos Aires.
In 2025 they will be fulfilled seven years of the death of Osvaldo Bayeressential figure of Argentine political thought and one of the intellectuals who best defined what freedom is. An issue now in dispute that is much more than just that word, today misrepresented based on repetitions, which they almost managed to empty their deepest sense. This is also the year in which a government that uses freedom as a shield to justify even attacks against herself, decided demolish a monument in commemoration of your figure. And right in Patagonia, emblematic territory within his work. All that makes this a good time for Fabio Zurita He releases his documentary YO FILMÉ A OSVALDO BAYER.
The film is composed of a series of images belonging to the personal archive of Zurita, who took more than 30 years to specify his desire to make a documentary about Bayer. A dream that until 2018 was based on The complicity of the writer himself, who allowed the filmmaker to accompany him, register and interview him on many occasions since 1994 until his death. Of that persistence (and of the surprising procrastination capacity of Zurita, whose story in off account for a long list of delays that he himself was imposed) the best of the film arises: a series of Unpublished images and testimonies that give it unavoidable value as a living document.
From that, it is possible to see and hear the author of The rebel Patagonia In a material that is only now exhibited in public for the first time. But they are also part of the movie David Viñas, Eduardo Galeano and León Rozitchnerpersonal friends of the writer, whom Zurita interrogates from a series of questions suggested by Bayer himself. So, YO FILMÉ A OSVALDO BAYER Get revived no longer to one, but four fundamental figures of Rioplatense thought, in Testimonies that also here for the first time come to light.
In that act of rebellion against death, that this film inherits from cinema itself – a show based on ghostly, the ability to instill life to unique images – there is the greatest merit of YO FILMÉ A OSVALDO BAYER. In parallel, perhaps its main clumsiness is found in The somewhat excessive prominence that the director decides to assumethrough a story in which he strives to build a poetic not always achieved. However, that same resource also allows it to be filtered true self -critical humorfrom the narration of a series of interruptions, clumsiness and obstacles that Zurita himself interposes in his own path, but to which this premiere, finally, gives him The best of possible closures.
