White Guitar
(Guitarra Blanca)
Aldo Garay | Documentary
2022 | 68 minutes | Uruguay
The story of an unfinished documentary about Alfredo Zitarrosa, and its director Francisco "Papico" Cibils.
Synopsis
White Guitar, directed by Aldo Garay, is a reflective documentary that intertwines the story of an unfinished film about the legendary Uruguayan singer-songwriter Alfredo Zitarrosa with the personal and creative journey of its director, Francisco "Papico" Cibils.
A poet who lived in exile, Cibils walked around with a VHS camera on his shoulder, challenging the dull recording of domestic life for which these cameras were created. A product of its time and the intuitive impulse of its director, the recording is, among other things, a link in the collective construction of Uruguayan memory from the perspective of popular culture.
Through archival footage, interviews, and recovered materials, Garay reconstructs both the elusive portrait of Zitarrosa—an emblematic figure in Latin American popular music and a symbol of cultural resistance—and the challenges faced by Cibils in his attempt to capture Zitarrosa’s legacy on film.
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Pragda subjects
Biography
Cinema Studies
Exile
Fascism + Repression
Latin American Studies
Literature
Music
South America
Keywords
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Festivals
BAFICI Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival - Graffiti Award to the Best Musical Film; Trieste Latino American Film Festival
DIRECTOR: Aldo Garay
NATIONALITY: Uruguay
YEAR: 2022
GENRE: Documentary
LANGUAGE: Spanish
COLOR / B&W: Color
GRADE LEVEL: High School, College, Adult
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