Renowned Argentine filmmaker and politician Fernando ‘Pino’ Solanas has died in Paris on November 7 at the age of 84, just days after being admitted to a hospital with the novel coronavirus.
Solanas, who was currently serving as Argentina’s ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), announced last month that he and his wife, Angela Correa, had contracted Covid-19, posting an image of him in a hospital bed.
A committed, revolutionary and heavily prolific filmmaker, Solanas was a passionate and persevering politician committed to social change. He also was a strong advocate for environmental change, calling on humanity to take care of nature.
His movie ‘The Hour of Furnace’, shot by him whereas hiding within the nation in opposition to dictatorship, marked Solanas within the historical past of world cinema. He was notable for his political movies, similar to ‘The Hour of the Furnaces’, which traces the historical past of the liberation battle in opposition to neo-colonialism in Latin America, and ‘Social Genocide’, which explores how the occupation and privatization of multinational firms into Argentina destroyed that society economically and politically.
Last year he was honoured during IFFK by Kerala Chalachitra Akademi , awarding him Lifetime Achievement Award.
