AM 750 A signal returned "Filmoteca": quality cinema on public TV

"Today is returning to the public TV screen.Joy endless! ".

This was announced on Saturday, September 4, on Facebook, the return of one of the most fans of Argentine television, the cycle that since 2006 -First, together with the collector and director Fabio Manes as a partner, and since 2016 with the criticRoger Koza by his side- carries out the programmer, preservator and cinema historian Fernando Martín Peña.

Both in its classic format from Monday to Friday and in this new Redux and Sundays Redux scheduleTo the Argentine open television public.

It is that the program - which in its weekend back to the screen presented two films about "the end of civilization" - became over the years in a shelter for many cinephiles and cinephiles that, sometimes forced toTrannochar more than the account, they found in the cycle a perfect plan to escape the tyranny and stillness of the algorithm and the on-mand.

A movie curatorship accompanied by a good introduction and a quota of humor and camaraderie sometimes close to the gag of two connoisseurs such as Peña and Koza are the watercopmarks of Filmoteca, which in 2021 will travel its fifteenth consecutive season into the air.

¿Cómo es volver después de un parate prolongado? ¿Cómo viviste estos meses de incertidumbre en los que no se sabía si el programa iba a tener espacio en la TV Pública?

Fernando Martín Peña: It was the longest interruption of the cycle since 2006, but next to the people who lost the work and that had much bigger problems, it is necessary to thank the program, and already.And, above all, thank the people who banked during all this time, because they did not stop a time to ask for the program, to ask what was happening.Filmoteca is no more our but, obviously, it is a lot of people who follow it and express a lot of love for what we do.

¿El pase al fin de semana obliga a repensar la programación y la dinámica del programa? ¿Cuál dirías que es el mayor cambio que va a traer el nuevo formato?

Yes, it forces to program in another way.We were accustomed to the weekly frequency, which allows you.Here is not that possibility and you have to think otherwise.But in any way short cycles can be made...Diptics would be, rather, thematic...And above all you can take the opportunity to spend short.I was doing a YouTube program called a film library online, in which I upload a short per day, from Monday to Friday, and the truth that the short format is always dismissed, and it is very difficult to find spaces to exhibit it.And there is a story of Argentine and foreigners fabulous.So, to show some short films, especially Argentine material, this new frequency is ideal.

En líneas generales, ¿ves hoy un espacio en la televisión argentina para un programa cultural como Filmoteca?

Space there is because we are doing it (laughs).And I don't know if the question goes on the side that Argentine television does not offer a very happy panorama, but our television always had a very strong film tradition, from its beginnings it always passed very good movies and armed film cycles that have made history, such as the Cineclub cycle, by Salvador Sammaritano, or private function, by Carlos Morelli and Romulo Berruti, or Caloi in his ink.And of course, on a more popular plane, on Saturdays of super action, which were a bit the cinephile formation of my generation.And I think what we do in Filmoteca is inscribed there, I think that tradition makes a space like ours more conceivable.

Por último, acabás de publicar un libro, Cine maldito (La Tercera editora, 2021). ¿Podés contar un poco de qué va?

As the title says, he talks about cinema cinema, and understanding him as those films that have had obstacles since his conception, from the author himself, or until later, by the public.There are different "curses" that made these films not arrive, or they would arrive badly, or continue to be, to this day, very difficult to access.So it is a compendium of stories of films with those characteristics, which are several.The industrial nature of a part of the cinema makes these problems more frequent than one believes.It is a compilation of those stories, and anyone can surely make another list than I propose.

Cuándo y dónde ver Filmoteca

Las 2 primeras películas

"They are two films that have to do with the end of the times, of civiilzation," says Peña, about what could be seen in the first two programs, on Saturday 4 and Sunday, September 5.