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I'm going to share

some things that I
like and that inspire me.

We will start with
cinema, if you like.

When I started studying
cinema, I was about 27 years old.

I managed to enter
film school at ENERC.

I arrived with a fairly poor baggage

in what has to do
with cinephile culture.

I grew up watching
science fiction movies,

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies,

I had seen the karate
ones, the Bruce Lee ones

and he had no
training as a movie viewer.

I had not seen either
Bergman or Tarkovski

Neither Polański nor
any French film director,

nor any of Italian neorealism.

That I discovered over time.

But the first movie that I bring

represents all that world he came with

and I got to the Film School.

The first movie is "Rocky".

Beyond being a very popular movie,

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"Rocky" excites me.

"Rocky" is the story of a
character who wants something

and what he really wants is love.

It is a love movie, deep down.

If you see it again and review it,
you will find out what it is about.

It has a pretty brave script structure

for the traditional script
structure used in Hollywood.

So "Rocky" for me is a
film that comes to me

and every time I listen to the
music of "Rocky" I get excited.

It's a doable movie to make,

It is not a very
pretentious film in the making.

It is the first film in
which the Steadicam was used

and not for nothing
also won two Oscar Awards.

The second movie is called,

or it was called in
Spanish, "The loves of a blonde."

It's from Milos
Forman, it's from 1965.

It is one of the first, I do
not know if it is not the first

directed by this
Czechoslovak film director.

at a time called The Prague Spring,

where beautiful movies were made.

This movie, the
moment I discovered it,

who was studying film history,

I realized it was a film
with a lot of sensitivity,

it had a lot of freshness,

he had a realism that made me feel

that he could get to film that way.

With that sense of humor and feeling.

So it is a film that I love very
much and that I took as a reference.

There are many shots
that I took from this movie

in my graduation thesis:
"Triplets propaganda!".

The third movie is "Dream, dream"

which is from Leonardo Favio.

He made Carlos Monzón,
who was a boxer, act,

and Gian Franco
Pagliaro, who is a singer.

It is a rather surreal film,
with a great sense of humor.

Very carefree, very free.

From Leonardo Favio, who is a director

who was a singer, was an actor

and had a fascinating inner world.

The truth is that "dream, dream"

it was not very important
at the time it was released,

but the truth is that it
takes me to very beautiful places

and I think it can be
filmed from the guts,

that can be filmed as
Leonardo Favio filmed,

with that humor, with spontaneity,

with that ease

and with that particular look he had.

So those are the three movies

that if I had to choose
my three favorite movies,

it would be those three.

I'll show you some comics

that accompanied me
during childhood, adolescence,

that I grew up with and
trained me in some way

and in which I return to
look for a lot of inspiration.

The first is "Nippur
of Lagash", a character

created by Robin Wood,

who is a Paraguayan comic writer.

These adventures were in magazines

from a publisher
called Editorial Columba

that went out for a
long time in Argentina.

Nippur of Lagash is a wandering
Sumerian that travels the ancient worlds.

Somehow, here is a germ of
"The amazing Zamba excursion",

Well I was reading Nippur from
Lagash and I was reading Asterix

and it was a way of
understanding history

in a very dynamic way.

I learned because I followed the
stories of this wandering Sumerian.

On the other hand, my
first Nippur magazine

came into my hands through my dad.

One day he took me to a
park where exchanges were made

and used magazine sales
and bought me one of these

and he said he should read it.

So, in a way as a
mandate or as a legacy

I treasure a lot of my dad, I
started reading these comics.

When I was in high
school, my dad was already dead

and in my family things were
wrong, I had to sell these magazines

to buy texts for high school.

Recently in Mercado Libre I
found these classics again

and I was able to buy them.

Just today I'm rereading

"Nippur of Lagash" with
great satisfaction and amazes me.

A little while ago I
discovered "Calvin and Hobbes"

by Bill Watterson

and I really enjoy it.

The truth is that the way

from the author of
getting into the head of a child

and that spontaneity that
Watterson has to write and to draw,

I envy her from the heart.

It is a very healthy envy,

but his ability to
fly and his fantasy,

makes me be a child again.

That is a sacred place
that I like to return to,

so I really appreciate it.

I recently bought myself

the complete collection and I
am reading it little by little.

Obviously, Mafalda de
Quino could not be absent.

When I was a boy, my
sister understood it more.

When he was three, four, five years old, the
truth looked at him and he did not understand.

I think it has like
several levels, Mafalda.

You can read it at seven, eight years
old and you understand a few things,

but when you keep reading it,
you keep understanding more.

The truth is that Quino's humor

and the acidity and how
precise it is with the drawings,

and with the bullets
and the timing it has,

the truth is that it will always be
my author or my favorite cartoonist.

I imitate him since I was little,
he made his drawings and copied them.

I always wanted to
meet him, so the truth

is that Mafalda is
one of my favorites.

Finally, Liniers, you surely know him.

He is an author who, for
me, has a superior look

and it has an amazing flight.

The truth is that I
also envy him a lot,

not only from the technique because
I would be unable to draw like this,

but for his way of thinking,

for his coherence, for
his vision as an artist.

The truth is that I admire him very
much and I really enjoy reading "Macanudo"

or any work Liniers
takes out is a work of art

and each time he surpasses
himself and grows as an artist.

The truth is that I'm glad

of being contemporary
of an author like him.

Finally let's see some books

that influenced me
and that I really like.

Obviously there are many

and I really have a hard
time finishing the books,

but I have some that I keep
and that I especially treasure.

I started having a library at thirty.

On a trip to Mexico,
one day I saw a library

and I said: How come I don't
have a library in my house?

The truth is that until
then I had read photocopies

or notes in the faculty.

Always buying a book
for me was something

that was not within
my means, I suppose.

On the other hand, in my habits,

when I had to read
something, I photocopied it.

So, there I started
to have a library idea

and I started buying books.

I really like getting
lost in used book libraries

and search and stir.

The first book I want to share

It is a book that, to be
honest, I am very fond of

because I read it a lot in
photocopies and finally I was able to get it.

It's called
"Eisenstein's Film Lessons"

and they are notes from a
student of his named Vladimir Nizhny

and it's the only thing he wrote.

The way he took Eisenstein's notes

it's very nice because he counts

how a male or female
partner participated,

how they raise their
hands and ask questions.

How Eisenstein argued and explained

the staging ideas,

the ideas of splitting a
scene into different planes.

In addition, the book has
some drawings by Eisenstein.

So, the truth is that it is
a book that is very useful

because somehow it
forges a way of thinking.

Form a way to approach a scene.

Eisenstein is so
generous in his classes

that teaches one how to enter a scene.

Talk about conflict, talk
about tension, talk about image.

The truth is that it is a very
simple book, very easy to read

and it's like doing a
Domestika course with Eisenstein.

The next one is "The
hero with a thousand faces"

and it's from Joseph Campbell,
who is an American mythologist.

Campbell devoted
himself to studying the myths

throughout many, many
civilizations in history

and began to find patterns,
things that were repeated.

The myth of the hero
and a lot of other myths

that later we realize that
we find them in the movies.

Later, Vogler, another author,
adapted this book in some way.

and made a "paper".

They say that that
"paper" went to Hollywood,

George Lucas grabbed him
and did the first "Star Wars"

with the myth of the hero

As Joseph Campbell had
deciphered it, in quotes.

So I highly recommend you
put on a little patience

because it is not so easy to
read, but read Joseph Campbell.

If they speak English or
understand more or less English

or want to practice

because it's very nice to listen to him and
he talks slowly and you can understand him,

I recommend you search on
Spotify or are on YouTube, too,

Joseph Campbell's classes,
which are very interesting.

"The art of dramatic
writing", by Lajos Egri.

It is a book that helped me a lot

to understand the idea
of dramatic structure.

It came to me through
Miguel Pérez who is a montajista

and well-loved and also
highly respected film director

and with a long history.

He was one of the first
to read it in Argentina

and tried to get this book
to people in the industry

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and it is a book that is easy to read
and Lajos Egri explains like no one else

the idea of dramatic
writing and dramatic structure

for theater, but can
be adapted for cinema,

so it is a book that
I highly recommend.

Finally, I chose "The Seven Madmen"
and its continuation, "The Flamethrowers"

by Roberto Arlt.

I don't usually read
the forewords of books.

The truth is, when I buy one,

what I want is to start
reading what it is about.

But the foreword to
"The flamethrowers",

which is what Arlt wrote
after "The Seven Madmen",

it is very interesting.

I would only
recommend it for the prologue

because it is really a manifesto.

After writing "The Seven
Madmen" Arlt was criticized

and they said I misspelled.

And in "The flamethrowers" he took
care to leave a very strong prologue

and it's like a flag.

Roberto Arlt was a worker

and I'm going to read
you a very short snippet

so they can see what
the prologue is about

and if you want you
can read it for yourself.

"With" The Flamethrowers
"ends" The Seven Madmen ".

I am happy to have the will to work

in unfavorable
conditions, to end a work

that demanded solitude and seclusion.

I wrote in loud newsrooms,

harassed by the
obligation of the daily column.

I say this to stimulate beginners,

to those interested in the
technical process of the novelist.

When there is something to
say, it is written anywhere.

On a coil of paper
or in a hellish room.

God or the Devil are next to
you dictating ineffable words.

Proudly,

I affirm that
writing, for me, is a luxury.

I don't have, like other writers,

of rents, time or
sedative national jobs.

Making a living by
writing is painful and rude.

Especially if when you work
you think there are people

to whom the worry of
having distractions

it produces "surmenage".

Moving on to something
else: I am said to write poorly.

It's possible. Either way,

I would have no difficulty
quoting people who write well

and to those who only read
correct members of their family. "

Arlt was quite suffering.

The truth is that I
had to work to live.

And somehow he
killed himself by writing

what he had to say.

The truth that is seen in
his books and is appreciated.

To me he is a model of writer,

an artist model that I
like to have on hand.

Just like Leonardo Favio, like
other authors that I admire very much,

the truth is that
Roberto Arlt means that to me.

It means that you can be a
worker and you can be an artist.

Now that I told you what I like,

We will move on to what
we will do in this course.