WORKS OF THE SECOND PERIOD – Arte y memoria audiovisual

WORKS OF THE SECOND PERIOD

Second period (1989-1993): This period marks the entry into the documentary genre, incorporating the historical-testimonial theme to the forms of montage of the previous period.
Aesthetically, these audiovisuals are structured on the narrative of their protagonists but a large percentage of the total real time (half or more) of each work is still tinted with the music-image style of the previous period.
Beginning in this period, and more precisely with Memories of the Immigrants’ Hospital (Memorias del Hospital de Inmigrantes), the works begin to unfold on three well differentiated planes: the documentary, exclusively concerning the historical-testimonial context, the formal, related to the purely aesthetic aspect and a third sense, inextricably linked to the second one and radiated towards a psychological expression that replaces the merely intellectual one which the author outlined in the above-mentioned literary essays as well as in subsequent ones.

Consequently, Ages in the Wind (Las Edades en el Viento), The Path of Lights (El Sendero de las Luces) and the culminating work The Enigma of the Great Voices are part of this period (El Enigma de las Grandes Voces).

Obra Audiovisual. Selección Iconográfica, página 50.

Audiovisual Work. Iconographic Selection. (Obra Audiovisual. Selección Iconográfica) P. 50.

The Path of Lights. History of Liebig.

Originally photographed in 35mm slide film

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Trailer of the audiovisual by Lucas Farjat

Jorge Luis Farjat’s images. Architectural ensemble of the Liebig town corresponding to chapters in the audiovisual work El Sendero de las Luces (Historia de Liebig), set with Carl Nielsen’s music.

Jorge Luis Farjat’s images: Portraits of some of the main characters who describe the history of the place.

Corresponding to chapters in the audiovisual work El Sendero de las Luces (Historia de Liebig), accompanied by Edward Elgar’s and Vítězslav Novák’s music, respectively.

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Images in El Sendero de las Luces (Historia de Liebig), audiovisual work. 1. Inside the old factory. 2. Members of the Liebig’s club. 3. Façade of the former factory obtained in 1991.

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Jorge Luis Farjat’s images: 1. Landscape next to the Liebig port. 2. Town library. 3 and 4. Architectural area used as a residence. Corresponding to chapters in the audiovisual work El Sendero de las Luces (Historia de Liebig) with an inspiredimpressionist fine art reference, accompanied by Carl Nielsen’s, Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar’s and Robert Schumann’s music, respectively.

http://www.hotelesdeinmigrantesylugareshistoricos.com/

The Old Immigrants’ Hotels

Edición final digital: full HD (1080p): 2013

Reedición digital en relación de aspecto 16.9 : 2015

Façade of the Hotel de la Rotonda and disembarkation area. Imagen in the audiovisual work.

Original: General Archive of the Nation.

Immigrants inside Hotel de la Rotonda.

Image in the audiovisual work. Original: General Archive of the Nation.

Allegorical images montage composed by Jorge Luis Farjat and Graciela Swiderski for his literary work La Inmigración. Page 160

Images of the Immigrants Hotel building in 1911 and 1989, composed by Jorge Luis Farjat in a diptych, with shape analogy and meaning contrast for the final sequence of his audiovisual work “The Old Immigrants’ Hotels” (Los Antiguos Hoteles de Inmigrantes).

Period images corresponding to the Immigrants Hotel kitchen and the great dining room in the ground floor (Originals: City Museum), and of the last dining room table obtained in 1989. Belonging to the audiovisual work “The old Immigrants’ Hotels” (Los Antiguos Hoteles de Inmigrantes) by Jorge Luis Farjat

Images of “The Old Immigrants’ Hotels” (Los Antiguos Hoteles de Inmigrantes), referred to the former park in the Migrations Land in 1911 (Source: City Museum), and image obtained in 1989 that shows the great changes in the place and the replacement of flower gardens by trees

Images of the Immigrants Hospital (Source: City Museum). “The Old Immigrants’ Hotels” (Los Antiguos Hoteles de Inmigrantes), audiovisual work.

Images of the Migrations Museum which was located in the Office Building between 1991 and 2002. In the book “The Old Immigrants’ Hotels” (Los Antiguos Hoteles de Inmigrantes), written by Graciela Swiderski and Jorge Luis Farjat.

Classes to immigrant women and film screening in the Migrations Land (Originals: City Museum). Los Antiguos Hoteles de Inmigrantes, audiovisual work.

Former Migrations Library, in the Office Building. In the book “The Old Immigrants’ Hotels” (Los Antiguos Hoteles de Inmigrantes), written by Graciela Swiderski and Jorge Luis Farjat.

Marcos Nowak, leading role, and the inside of the Gran Hotel. Images corresponding to the final sequence of the “The Old Immigrants’ Hotels” (Los Antiguos Hoteles de Inmigrantes), audiovisual work.

Manuel Ortiz, leading role and narrator of scene in the audiovisual work corresponding to the Pier, main chapter in the work, and Czech immigrant woman. “The Old Immigrants’ Hotels” (Los Antiguos Hoteles de Inmigrantes), audiovisual work.

Música: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)