Eduardo Darino Retrospective Playing at the Film-Makers' Cooperative

OFFICIAL POSTER FOR “EDUARDO DARINO: 60 YEARS IN ANIMATION,” DESIGNED BY MATT McKINZIE. SOURCE: THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE.

Eight films by legendary filmmaker and animator Eduardo Darino will play at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative on Friday, September 29th, at 7pm, to celebrate Darino’s six-decade career. GME associate Matt McKinzie curated and will present this program. Darino himself will be in attendance to answer audience questions and speak about his body of work.

Darino is a pioneering Latino moving image artist from Uruguay who broke new ground in the fields of analog and computer animation, particularly in the realms of documentary and experimental storytelling. Inspired by the work of Norman McLaren, Darino has gone on to collaborate with such cutting-edge multimedia artists as Laurie Anderson, and has been praised by the likes of renowned polymath Uruguayan artist Clemente Padin.

GME highlights the work of Darino’s contemporaries, similarly groundbreaking Latin American moving image artists, in the must-have collection CINE A CONTRACORRIENTE: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE OTHER LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA. This release (available to the North American university market as both a DVD and DVD/DSL bundle) contains a selection of films that comprise the traveling cinema program Cinema Against the Grain: Latin America and Spain; Dialogue, Convergence, Divergence… Over the Past 80 Years. The contents present a premiere selection of 19 avant-garde, documentary, animation and experimental films from all throughout Latin America (including Cuba). Within the complex universe of Latin American cinema, these are fundamental works of art that are hardly known to the general public. Highlighted filmmakers include Santiago Álvarez (Peru), Narcisa Hirsch (Argentina), Paz Encina (Paraguay), and Jorge Sanjinés (Bolivia).

Visit the Film-Makers’ Coop’s website to learn more about this unique program.