By Mónica Delgado

By the end of last year, Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America was published, a book edited by Jesse Lerner and Luciana Piazza, product of a series of film curatorships organized by Los Angeles FilmForum within the framework of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, and supported by the Getty Foundation. It turned out to be a fundamental book, as in it groups new essays which contextualize different experiences if South America (especially from the opportunities that Super8 gives), and also because it recovers different manifestos, opinions, letters, drawings, frames or fragments of articles that give account of the sensibilities of the authors and characters that were protagonists in the history of experimental, in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Venezuela or Cuba.