The Hour of the Furnaces: Ideas about Editing Film and the Revolution of the Language of the Cinema

Third Cinema
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The Hour of the Furnaces is one of the most powerful documentaries ever released in this century. The filmmakers' language focuses on an approach that emphasizes themes related to colonialism, nationality, racism, personal identity, revolution, and class. In the film, the audience meets with Fernando's style of creating political films, which derives its political message from aesthetic skills such as sound, narration style, juxtapositions, collages, and camera skills.
The filmmakers revealed that the art and cinema they used are potent weapons in highlighting these truths. They use Einsenstien's montage skill and juxtaposing images and edit them to create individual scenes to give the audience a political idea (Campo & Pérez-Blanco,2018). It means the filmmakers also mix ideological and art to show the link between exploiting and consumerism (Kollektifi,2018). Audiovisual skills like collage are used to direct the cinema...