The documentary poem according to Victoria Ocampo and Sergei Eisenstein
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Victoria Ocampo and Sergei Eisenstein meet in New York in 1930. She proposes him to travel to Argentina to shoot a “documentary poem about the pampas”. Although Ocampo is familiar with Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, she isn’t thinking about Eisenstein’s films; rather, she has in mind a very different type of film, similar to those made by Robert Flaherty. However, the project will never materialize and the filmmaker decides to film Que viva México! The tumultuous shooting of this film marks a turning point in Eisenstein's work: on one hand, its visual conception is different from his previous pictures, and on the other hand, the Latin American experience will leave significant traces in the texts and later films of the director. This article explores a possible influence of the documentary poem proposed by Ocampo on the conception of Que viva México!
Keywords: Victoria Ocampo, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Flaherty, documentary poem, Que viva México!
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