Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 16 | Nº 2 | July 2026

Pictures of reality in three Argentine underground fictions

CICPBA-UNICEN
ORCID: 0009-0001-7804-1350

Abstract

The argentine underground cinema of the 70’s uniquely combine the avant-garde techniques and politics in a radically experimental style, yet with obvious references of the country’s political context .Distrustful of documentary ways when it came to their reflections on reality, these filmmakers produced fiction films, which nevertheless ended up including documentary footage in their films. In this paper, we aim to explore the implications of using testimonial images in fiction films, and understand how this footage is articulated within the political discourse of the underground filmmakers. We will study the cases of … (Puntos suspensivos) (Dot…Dot…Dot…) (Cozarinsky, 1971), La pieza de Franz (Franz’s Piece) (Fischerman, 1973), and La civilización está haciendo masa y no deja oír (Civilization is making mass noise and doesn’t let us hear) (Julio Ludueña, 1974).

Keywords: Reality and pictures | Underground cinema | Allegories and metaphors

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Imágenes de lo real en tres ficciones subterráneas argentinas

NOTAS

Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Pictures of reality in three Argentine underground fictions

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