Salamone, Pampa

Salamone, Pampa

Architecture as Autobiography

Photography and beyond – Part 34

Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-1959)

Film von Heinz Emigholz
GER 2022 – 62 minutes
DCP, 5.1, no Dialog

Director and Screenplay: Heinz Emigholz
Camera: Heinz Emigholz, Till Beckmann
Local Management Argentinia: Esteban Bellotto
General Assistance Argentinia: Ueli Etter
Original Sound Recording: Esteban Bellotto
Editing: Till Beckmann, Heinz Emigholz
Sound Design and Mixing: Christian Obermaier, Jochen Jezussek
Post-production: Till Beckmann
Production Assistant: Anna Bitter, Viviana Kammel
Producers: Frieder Schlaich, Irene von Alberti
Production: Filmgalerie 451

Thanks to Alejandra Casemayor, Viviana Castro, Eugenia Cavallaro, Rubén Ghio, Stefan Kolosko, Alejo Magarinos, Vanesa Neubauer, Camila Paredes, Jonathan Perel, Sergio Picazo, Ana Ramos, María Sueldo, Maia Vena und Centro Cultural Salamone in Balcarce, Chamber of Commerce in Guamini, Offices of Culture in Alem, Azul, Carhué, Laprida, Pringles,, Saliqueló und Pellegrini, Office of Tourism in Tres Lomas

The film shows eleven slaughterhouses, nine town halls and squares, a school and four monumental cemetery portals which Francisco Salamone and his team built between 1936 and 1939 in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires in the cities of Alem, Azul, Balcarce, Carhue, Colonel Pringles, Epecuén, Guamini, Laprida, Pellegrini, Saldungaray, Salliquelo, Tres Lomas and Vedia.

Filming for the film took place in November 2021 in Argentina.

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