Date: 05 APRIL 2019 from 18:00 to 20:00
Event location: Auditorium del Dipartimento delle Arti, Piazzetta P. P. Pasolini, 5/b, 40122 Bologna
EL PUEBLO SOY YO, Venezuela en populismo, documentary directed by Carlos Oteyza, Venezuelan director, and produced by Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian, illustrates the dramatic legacy of twenty years of populism in Venezuela. It does not do more or less flags or slogans, but with images and words: the raw images gathered by those who live it and film it for decades; the words of the expert money interviewed. A picture of violent contrasts emerges: between the grandiloquent ideology and the daily bad government, the promise and the truth, the rhetoric and the prose, the appearance and the reality, the old miseries and the new riches.
The archive material shows the mixture of megalomania, bad taste, arrogance, authoritarianism; the irresponsibility with which the populist regime squandered enormous wealth in exchange for ease and fleeting consensus; the inattentiveness with which the other is followed the incentives to produce, invest, save. Today's Venezuelan nightmare is not the deviation from the right path of the past, but its predictable outlet, an autocratic prophecy.
The documentary is in Spanish, subtitled in English
Discussion with the Author:
Marco Cucco, Department of Arts Professor of Documentary and Experimental Cinematography
Loris Zanatta, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Director of the International Relations Master in Europe - Latin America
