Resumen de De la vanguardia al realismo: poéticas de pasaje
This article examines the context that gave rise to a fruitful dialogue between avant-garde and realist cinemas during the 1930s, especially in documentary films: a new kind of vision was being carved out. New perspectives were bringing to light fascinating formal correlations between abstract art and film images of extreme close-ups or extreme amplifications. At the same time avant-garde filmmakers were facing aesthetic and ethic challenges and found in film the perfect medium for intervening in that reality, knowing that it would play a central role as an instrument of social change.
