Gonzalo De Pedro

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One Way or Another

Film as revolution, film as feminism, film as a portrait of political change and contradictions.

Agarrando pueblo

Porno misery existed before this film, but no one noticed till Mayolo and Ospina delivered this openly critical, non-cynical fiction-documentary about First World exploitation of Third World countries through cinema.

Fuego en Castilla

Cinema as an ongoing powerful machine to invent itself and to portray the past, memories, the future of art and history.

Zama

The sound of colonialism, the madness of power and control.

No Home Movie

A film about a mother and a daughter. A film about love, distances, letters and sad farewells.

Meshes of the Afternoon

David Lynch knows it: this film is everything. New forms, camera as a creative tool, the beginning.

À PROPOS DE NICE

Shot and counter-shot. Political editing, candid cameras, sense of humour. Nice as the centre of class struggle.

La Petite Vendeuse de 'Soleil'

Second part of an unfinished trilogy, The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun is a hymn to brave people in post-colonial Senegal or, as the filmmaker stated, a “hymn to the courage of street children”.

Princess Mononoke

Animation as imagination, cinema as a cry for a dying world.

BABY I WILL MAKE YOU SWEAT REEL 1 and 2

Sex, tapes and female liberation. A sweat film about race, love, politics and heat.

Further remarks

There are many other films or filmmakers that could have been in this list: Jonas Mekas, Ana Mendieta, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Raya Martin, Albert Serra, Naomi Uman, Agnès Varda, Vera Chytilová, Carolee Schneemann, Su Friedrich. They deserve to be listed here.