After Memoria del saqueo, La dignidad de los nadies, Argentina latente and La próxima estación, Solanas begins with Oro puro a diptych on the plundering of mineral resources (metals and hydrocarbons). This remarkable and powerful documentary denounces the open-pit cyanide mining operations carried out by multinationals in the northwest with the support of politicians, exposes the progressive contamination of soil and water, and exalts social resistance movements through moving individual and collective examples.
Direction
Solanas weaves testimony like weaponized poetry
Cinematography
Devastating beauty: poisoned rivers shot like elegies
Editing
Ruthless cuts between corporate lies and ground truth
Director
Fernando E. Solanas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Solanas' 'Land in Revolt' cycle documenting Argentina's neoliberal devastation across two decades.
The open-pit gold mining technique shown—heap leaching with cyanide—was banned in several Argentine provinces after this film's release.
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