This Tuesday is the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage and, for this reason, The Cinema Museum will screen a series of materials preserved by the Argentine Antarctic Institute and the venue itself located in the La Boca neighborhood.

It is a project that has been carried out since 2018 by both entities and whose purpose is, the rescue, preservation and dissemination of audiovisual materials filmed in Argentine Antarctica throughout the 20th century.

This series of projections, also, are part of the activities carried out throughout the month within the framework of the 49 años del Museo del Cine “Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken”.

From Tuesday, all those realizations recovered, can be seen doing Click here!

Then, The sidewalk shows a list of all the productions that can be appreciated.

Argentine sovereignty in Antarctica (10 minutes, Argentina, 1947)

In 1947 comienza el período del “gran salto polar argentino”, in which Argentina installs numerous bases and Antarctic shelters, in addition to achieving important geographical discoveries in Antarctica. Este especial del noticiario “Sucesos argentinos” es una clara expresión de la épica inicial de ese período, in its English version to publicize internationally the national Antarctic actions.

The white homeland (12 minutes, Argentina, 1973)

Alberto Larrán earned his living as a documentary maker for more than four decades. Sus films, describe the most diverse companies always from the institutional point of view. In this case they go through the army activities, the navy and the Argentine Antarctic Institute in different Antarctic bases in the mid-1970s. The film has its value because, among other things, It is one of the last audiovisual documents that portray the veteran icebreaker General San Martín, that since 1954 carried out national campaigns, and would be replaced in 1979 by the icebreaker Almirante Irizar.

Antarctic icebreaker ARA Alte. Irizar (12 minutes, Finland, 1979)

In 1979 the Wärtsilä shipyard in Finland delivers the Almirante Irizar icebreaker to Argentina. But before putting it into service it is necessary to know if it can break the thick ice of the Weddell Sea. The shipyard team thus embarks with the Argentine crew on a test expedition that goes out of season in the Antarctic seas, braving the harsh ice of the polar winter.

March to the southern limit of the Homeland (11 minutes, Argentina, 1969)

In 1965 an ambitious Antarctic operation takes place, Argentina's first land expedition to the South Pole. Through a report from the head of the expedition, General Jorge Edgard Leal, This short but compelling short film takes us on a journey of almost three thousand kilometers through the ice barrier and the polar plateau, going through cracks and storms with extreme temperatures.