Poem in the Form of A Film Poster
Fernando Birri I see, I see a green parrot in the Zoo in Berlin and I think: “ The New Latin American Cinema is today a reality But But But Twenty-five years agao It was utopia Which is the new utopia? and the parrot the green parrot green parrot whose name is Latin is very difficult but who is surely called Junacito or Nemesio is a parrot from the High Parana that is to say my brother or my cousin I saw him, I saw him And I think: ‘National identity. Did the parrot need its national(and critical) identity? But ourselves, we do We needed it: for a national cinema realist and critical Later we added Popular’. I see, I see the parrot Looking at the grey sky Of Berlin through the holes Of the woven wire of cage It wasn’t sad just effective. And I think: “The Problem now is the language (ideology we’ve dealt with) blood saliva sperm death resistance Violent,serene liberation from hunger Of conscience A revolution which doesn’t revolutionize (permanently) Its language alphabets gestures loo...