FIELD FOR MEN (El Campo para el Hombre)
By CLASS FILM COLLECTIVE (HELENA LUMBRERAS, MARIA LISA)
Spain | 1973 |49 min. | Spanish with English subtitles
Serving the working class, the film portraits in a clear television style the two extremes of agricultural property in Spain in the 70s’ in Galician and Andalusia. Clearly critical of the living conditions of the farmers, the film represents the work of the only woman director making these clandestine movies. U.S. Premiere
Biography: The filmmaking duo Helena Lumbreras (1934-1995) and Maria Lisa (1945) break from 1968 with a series of documentaries with strong personality and politics of social protest. Prior to her cinema study in Madrid, Helena graduated as film director in 1963 at the Experimental Center for Cinematography in Rome. She works for the RAI TV, and in 1968 together with Llorenc Soler she made Spagna 68, working on the fight and the student movement. Subsequently they both made El Carto Poder (1970). Since then, having become married to Maria Lisa, they founded CCC (Colectivo de Clase) together and began to shoot a collection of documentary evidence, committed to accurately documenting the realities of the poorer classes. From this ideal was born El Campo Para el Hombre (1973), or O todos o Ninguno (1975-1976)
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