Brief Story of a Utopian Project: The Movement of the New Bolivian Cinema and Video and its Revista Imagen

In the context of a more extensive research that reveals, describes and analyses the audiovisual production practices in La Paz, Bolivia, between 1978 and 1989, the present work focuses on the chronicle of the editorial project Imagen: a film magazine published by the Movement of the New Bolivian Film and Video during the second half of the eighties. With no local tradition of film publications, Imagen was a self-supporting and self-financed initiative, which operated with a changeful frequency and format, and served as a forum for discussion on specific issues of local work, acted as a vehicle for dissemination of the Movement activities, a micro-training space, a medium of circulating calls and contests, and a tool for articulating different proposals. The work explains the publication’s historical evolution, describes its general characteristics and editorial profile, gives an account of the intervening actors and their forms of organization, and indicates the conditions of possibility, accomplishment and limitations of the project.

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