Manzoni, Carla2018-01-102018-01-102015-09http://hdl.handle.net/11299/192659University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation.September 2015. Major: Hispanic and Luso Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics. Advisors: Ana Forcinito, Amy Kaminsky. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 223 pages.I study Albertina Carri’s audio-visual production of resistance in memory, as a reaction to officially funded mainstream post-dictatorial films, produced during the transition, after the 1976-1983 Argentine dictatorship. Combined as the Los rubios project, this corpus includes a documentary, three experimental short films and a book. Carri’s project is studied as part of a tradition of resistance outside mainstream film. For that purpose, I trace Carri’s heritage throughout a constellations of marginal audio-visual production since the 1930’s. The artifacts brought to dialogue use fragmentation, and particularly the void in-between fragments, as an opportunity to resist traditional storytelling. Specifically, I contend that the Los rubios project includes fragmentary storytelling to make memory narratives flexible and fluid as well as to invite the spectator to play an active role in memory.enArgentinaavant-gardefilmMemorypost-dictorshipvisual artsThesis or Dissertation