22 Years of El Pampero Cine

Over the past few years, as a dedicated cinephile immersed in the vibrant world of alternative global cinema, you’ve likely encountered the growing prominence of El Pampero Cine. The Argentine collective, forme...

Interviewing Mariano Llinás, one of the most creative minds in today's cinematic landscape, has been both a significant and challenging endeavour that I have pursued over the past six years. My quest to intervi...

One key takeaway from Alejo Moguillansky’s films is that by telling one's personal story, you can illuminate broader topics and issues. In an effort to elucidate his cinematic approach and truly describe his di...

During the global lockdown, the film industry faced significant disruptions that challenged filmmakers both creatively and logistically. However, El Pampero, a collective renowned for its resilience in low-budg...

Embarking on the El Pampero Cine Dossier project has been a revelatory expedition into the heart of a team that profoundly shapes today's Argentine cultural scene. This endeavour allowed me the privilege to int...

Introduction Laura Citarella's cinema, characterized by a distinctive style and profound thematic complexity, is significantly shaped by her involvement with the El Pampero Cine collective. Her films uniquely ...

"We artists are irresponsible people." – Maxim Gorky to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, c. 1907-08 As a core member of El Pampero Cine, Alejo Moguillansky was initially known as the team’s editor who was sought-af...

Like the new generation of directors who introduced a fresh face to Argentine cinema at the start of the new century, Mariano Llinás believed it was time to close one chapter and begin another in filmmaking. Am...

This article was first published in Entre/telones y pantallas. Afectos y saberes en la performance argentina contemporánea (Libraria, 2020), the volume we co-edited with Jordana Blejmar (Univ. Liverpool) and Ph...

1. Introduction Like how Julio Cortázar wrote about Charlie Parker, here is an attempt to write about something by means of something else. In the short story "The Pursuer" ("El perseguidor"), narrating as a j...

Interview translated by Alma Prelec and Maria Delgado. The histories of El Pampero Cine and Piel de Lava are intertwined. Both are companies founded within 12 months of each other: the former in 2002, the la...

Teamwork and collaboration have been essential to El Pampero's sustained success and cultural impact for over two decades, significantly shaping the global independent cinema landscape. For this dossier, I reac...

El Pampero Cine is acclaimed for its intricate narratives, its playful engagement with filmmaking, and its deep literary and cinematic roots, clearly distancing itself from typical film festival trends. The stu...

Anyone fortunate enough to attend the back-to-back screenings of La Flor (The Flower, Mariano Llinás, 2018) over three nights at the 62nd London Film Festival in 2018 will forever cherish the uniqueness of the ...