As the third installment in an ongoing series of muckraking documentaries by Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas that investigate various sociological aspects of South America's second-largest nation (following 2004's Memoria del saqueo and 2005's La Dignidad de los nadies), Latent Argentina springboards from a truth little-known to most of the titular country's residents: Argentina owns more wealth and more innate natural resources than almost any nation on its continent. The possessor of a bountiful shoreline, endless acres of tillable farmland, the fourth largest metal reserves on the planet and a remarkable space program (the fourth in the world to send a human being into space), Argentina nevertheless remains a prisoner of backward and disadvantageous economical, political and social systems.
Direction
Solanas' unrelenting, essayistic polemic style.
Writing
Devastating statistical reveals that reframe everything.
Director
Fernando E. Solanas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Solanas coined 'Third Cinema' in 1960s—revolutionary filmmaking as direct political action, not entertainment. This trilogy is his late-career proof of concept.
The 'latent' title deliberately echoes Marx's concept of unfulfilled potential—Solanas explicitly frames Argentina as capital accumulation's failed promise, not natural failure.
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