Dominican Republic / All works
Cinema
Lumiantena
Martín López · 1981
Synopsis
A filmed essay on press telephotography, at a time when neither the fax machine nor the computer existed: the way a newspaper sent its images from one city to another, the process, the apparatus, the waiting. About ten minutes in sixteen millimetres, edited on the moviola, whose title combines light and antenna, and in which the technical subject becomes material for visual experiment.
Context
The film was shot on sixteen-millimetre film, with Máximo Rodríguez operating the camera, then edited on a moviola; Acento credits it to its two authors. Shown at the fifteenth National Biennial of Visual Arts, in 1981, it won first prize in the open category there, before a jury that included the poet Pedro Mir and the painter Darío Suro. For its author, it served as a final-year project.
Who it is for
In Spanish, and very brief; an essay film on a vanished technique, to be watched as an experiment in form.
Prizes and reception
First prize at the 1981 National Biennale; according to Acento, the most experimental work in Dominican documentary to that date.