Ainamar Clariana Rodagut

Bio

Ainamar Clariana Rodagut is a postdoctoral research fellow and member of the research team of the European Research Council-funded project “Social Networks of the Past. Mapping Hispanic and Lusophone Modernity, 1898-1959,” led by Diana Roig-Sanz at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She is also part of the Global Literary Studies Research Lab, where she leads the Global Cinema research line. Her work has appeared in Arbor, Aisthesis, and a number of edited collections. She holds a PhD in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University.

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It is a little-known fact that two women, Victoria Ocampo and Lola Álvarez Bravo, brought the celebrated avant-garde film Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, 1929) to Argentina and Mexico for the first time. Acting as cultural mediators, they successfully organized the film’s premieres in 1929 and 1938, respectively, at the Cine Club de Buenos Aires, where Ocampo was a key player, and the 16mm Cinema film society, which Álvarez Bravo ran. Álvarez Bravo and Ocampo’s intervention...