Martín Oesterheld, grandson of the famous cartoonist Héctor Oesterheld and executive producer of the series ‘El Eternalauta’, based on the most important work of his grandfather, said in dialogue with the Efe agency that culture is “the soul of the Argentine nation” and expressed his firm rejection of the definance of cultural policies by the government of Javier Milei.
“Nobody has to feel threatened by Argentine culture. Argentine culture is a reason for pride and is also like the soul of our nation,” said Oesterheld, who urged Milei’s government to embrace culture instead of paramentating it.
His statement comes at a time where the National Institute of Audiovisual Cinema and Arts (INCAA), together with other organizations such as the National Fund of Arts and the National Theater Institute, faces mass cuts and dismissals, putting national artistic production at risk.
Since he assumed, in December 2023, the Milei government has promoted a fiscal adjustment policy that includes severe reductions in culture financing. INCAA has been one of the main targets, paralyzing projects and affecting thousands of workers in the sector.
For him grandson of the author of ‘El Eternalauta’the series is a clear example of the value of the investment in the Argentine culture: “The technical level that appears in the series does not appear from one day to the other. It appears because there is a story in the Argentine cinema, there is a tour. We were forming it with effort for years. It cannot be destroyed that way.”
This level of technique and having reached where this material was reached technically does not appear from one day to the other, it appears because there is a story in the Argentine cinema, there is a tour. ”
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Audience and cultural phenomenon
The “The Eternaluta” series, directed by Bruno Stagnaro, not only became an audience phenomenon, but a reason for pride for the Argentines, who celebrated the success of a series loaded with references to their history and culture.
Filmed in Buenos Aires, with Argentine and Spanish professionals, production was a conscious commitment to strengthen the cultural identity of the country.
“The series connects directly to our own history and our own traumas and our own ways of saying things, which also have to do with what has happened in the 1970s, with our missing (during the military dictatorship), the Falklands. He speaks of all of us and says it in our own words and our way,” said Oesterheld.
The producer, whose grandfather published the cartoon ‘The Eternaluta’ in 1957, 20 years before being kidnapped and disappeared by the military dictatorship, considered that “there is no science fiction without political comment” and highlighted the importance of the series to break with the Anglo -Saxon codes of the genre.
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“Breaking the expected logics of science fiction and telling things from Latin America, Argentina or the southern cone is a movement that seems less, but it is very important. Darking gender is something very important,” he said.
With EFE information
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