28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
The Stonebreakers
director: Azul Aizenberg
original title: Las Picapedreras
country: Argentina
year: 2021
running time: 16 min.
synopsis
In 1908, Argentinian stonebreakers went on what was to become the longest strike in the country’s history. Only a few testimonies and no pictorial documents have been preserved. Sixty years later, a feature film was shot about the incident, which, however, ignored the presence of women among the strikers. Azul Aizenberg set out on an exciting search for fragments of a history long-forgotten to emphasise the importance of this event for the persisting fight for the rights of exploited social groups.
„In the words of Jonas Mekas, the history of cinema is an invisible history: history of friends getting together to do what they love. And, in that case, the history of comrades that fought for revolution.“ (Azul Aizenberg)
biography
Azul Aizenberg (1993), an Argentinian filmmaker, studied film directing at the University of Cinema/Film in Buenos Aires. Her filmography includes two short films – Last Land (2016) and Friend (2019). She also participated in other film projects as a producer and editor. Currently, she is working on her first feature film.more about film
| director: | Azul Aizenberg |
| producer: | Azul Aizenberg |
| script: | Azul Aizenberg |
| editing: | Azul Aizenberg |
| sound design: | Esteban Bellotto Kuzminsky, Daniela Medina Silva |
