50 years after the kidnapping and murder of María del Carmen Maggi, the national university of Mar del Plata (UNMDP) performed a commemorative act in which an advance of the audiovisual piece that recreates that fact that happened on May 9, 1975. The documentary, produced and fully carried out by the UNMDP, will be named after the UNMDP.There will barely be shadows”.
The meeting took place in the Aula Magna of the University Complex that bears his name and was attended by authorities and relatives of who was at that time dean of the Faculty of Humanities of the Catholic University, in addition to the entire staff that carried out the production that mixes the documentary and fiction genres.
As happened with “The memory we inhabit”the UNMDP again bets through the Directorate of Audiovisual Content of its Secretariat of Communication and Public Relations. Therefore, the words of welcome were in charge of Alberto Rodríguezwho is in front of this area. “It was essential to be gathered here today, 50 years after the kidnapping of María del Carmen Maggi. The classroom gives us a very strong burden, so also the emotion of everything we have lived around this project”He said.
“The memory we inhabit” will be released at the Mar del Plata International film Festival
Prior to seeing the advance, the rector of the UNMDP, Alfredo Lazzerettiit was also moved by the date. “Somehow we are going to honor very sad and tragic events. Today we are remembering the 50th anniversary of a kidnapping and subsequent murder of a university teacher, nothing more or nothing less. And I think they are elements that have to allow us to reflect to all“, held.
At the same time, Lazzeretti recalled the context in which these facts were given and the sanction of Law 21,139 that gives the creation of the National University of Mar del Plata from the fusion of the Catholic University “Stella Maris” and the local Provincial University. “It was a merger to gun and very traumatic that occurs between 1974 and 1975 with the triple A, the National University Concentration (CNU), with groups of extreme right parapolials and armed conflicts. So it seems to me that I think The fact of being able to count on Silvia Filler’s film and now with this documentary/fiction will serve us to meet our history, to spread what happened in those years. They are facts that admit many looks but we wanted to give ours“He added.
Then, and in one of the most emotional moments of the afternoon, Maggi’s niece, Guillermina Tonettihe approached the stage and expressed himself in the name of his whole family. “For me it is a huge pride to be here, always thanking all those who made the project possible. As a relative, it is enormous pride that part of the history of my aunt is part of the history of the university. Know that they can count on us forever”.
The projection of the advance was lived with respect and, at the time of the final credits, the sustained applause Of all the Magna Aula made it clear what his message meant again awakening the emotion of each of those present.
About “there will barely shadows”
A group of actors and actresses prepares a performative installation on some events that occurred in the last military dictatorship in Argentina and on the Coca Maggi case, a university professor and dean, kidnapped and murdered in Argentina by the fascist group national university concentration (CNU) in May 1975. While preparing the installation and rehearsing the scenes, they reflect on the problems of the representation of the past and the challenges of the construction of the past and the challenges collective
With respect to its realization, the director, Diego Ercolanoreported that: “2 and a half years ago we worked in this movie all of us who are here and some more. Many workers of the UNMDP and many Marplateans who joined. I have been able to know ‘Coca’ through this process also seems very important because she was a brilliant woman with a conviction and immense courage that is an example for all of us who continue to defend the same rights today”.
While what could be seen is not the final cut, Ercolano explained the importance of this type of content spread. “We hope that the movie can be seen by a lot of people because it is important that Maggi’s story and those of those terrible years we live in Argentina know and continue to remember in the future. For all of us here that seems key to us”.
