Cinemateca / numero 1 / ano 1

Mexico City: Imprenta Madero, 1972. Saddle-stapled in screen-printed wraps. 36 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white images throughout text. Bumping and some wear to wraps; overall, very good. Item #10529

The premier issue of Cinemateca, the rare Third Cinema Mexican film magazine.

Printed and designed by Vicente Rojo and Imprenta Madero, this issue includes a profile on the radical Bolivian filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés, an essay by the famed Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat Alfonso Reyes, an essay by Carlos Viera on the trajectory of Brazilian cinema, and the manifesto of the Argentinian socialist film collective, Grupo Cine Rojo.  

Written from a revolutionary Marxist perspective, Cinemateca reflects the debates of the time in Latin American cinema, particularly the “New Latin American Cinema,” or Third Cinema. The Third Cinema, announced as a political and aesthetic project in a October, 1969 issue of the Cuban magazine Tricontinental, defined the 1970s in Latin American cinema, with its programmatic vision for a cooperative, anti-capitalist, and realist cinema that would expose the various tentacles of imperial violence in the region, employ non-professional actors, and celebrate popular struggles. 

OCLC locates three examples of any issues as of March 2026; two in North America. 

“Estamos por un nuevo arte, libre y subversivo, fusionado a la vida, a la accion, a la lucha de clases.” [We stand for a new art—free and subversive—fused with life, action, and class struggle.]

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