Ningún pibe nace chorro

Abstract

This article analyzes two short films produced in the Audiovisual Production Center of La Casona by Florencio Varela. The text makes an ethnography of its actors, practices and processes and, to follow, analyzes the discourse of confrontation that these young people have about the representations that television makes of their identities as inhabitants of the southern suburbs. In this way, we understand the enunciative practices of the community cinema as a response to the hegemonic discourse that stigmatizes the neighborhoods of the periphery of Buenos Aires in the mass media. This reflective, meta-mediatic and trans-mediatic discourse is understood in its political sense, since it enables the production of a community visuality of its own, in which young people link with each other to build outlets for everything they do not like. In these films, a neighborhood is seen where young people come together to generate different solutions to their realities, facing what television shows.