The cultural and artistic ebullience of the 1960s and 1970s spilled into the radical experiences that set to rethink the language of cinema, filmmaking, as well as the production and distribution of films. In Buenos Aires, filmmakers coalesced into the experimental group made up by Narcisa Hirsch, Claudio Caldini, Marie-Louise Alemann, HoracioValleregio, and Silvestre Byron (some of whom took part in the 1970s "Goethe Group"), or the nonconformist, provocative and irreverent group made up by Alberto Fischerman, Julio Ludueña, Miguel Bejo, BebeKamin, Edgardo Kleinman and Edgardo Cozarinsky. This article explores both trends to account for differences and similarities between avant-garde, experimental, underground and anti- Establishment cine...