“Paladium I have it present since I have consciousness. It was a project promoted by Juan Lepesthe father of the cook narda lepestogether with my father Jose Luis Novick, one of the founding partners. But in my house they didn’t talk much about the place, it’s as if it had been part of the past that they didn’t return to. As I grew older, I realized that many things had happened in Paladium and that no one had seen them, and around ten years ago, I began the investigation”, recalls the filmmaker. Francis Novickdocumentary project director “One night at Paladium”.
The mythical bowling alley, emblematic of the nightlife of the 80s, will revive next Saturday, March 18, at the Art Media Complex, located at Avenida Corrientes 6271 in the city of Buenos Aires. In the wide space of the Chacarita neighborhood, an event will be held in which the attendees of the 80s discotheque, the djs and various artists and references of culture and the jetset of that time, will attend the facilities, as a temporary journey in memory.
The event, in addition to being developed with performances and music from that time of the birth of democracy, will also be the main filming set for the documentary “A Night at the Paladium.” The film production will be developed by the team of Rutemberg Collective, with the support of National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA)and the attendees and guests who wish to attend may be the protagonists of the audiovisual documentary.
“palladium It is the temple of the Buenos Aires night that is buried. There has been talk of many spaces such as Cement, the Parakultural or Café Einstein, but Paladium had certain qualities that set it quite apart from the rest. When I began the investigation, there were no chronicles and no one to analyze the Buenos Aires nightlife. You had to make a documentary and go to the protagonists. The founders were not businessmen of the night, nor artists like Chabán, they were a group of friends who lived in the Bajo. That location, at that time, was more alive than now, but the neighborhood was pretty seedy at night, there were a few offices and what was left of the nightlife scene. say tella ’70s,” Novick explains.
“The aesthetics of Paladium, at that time, defined it as the biggest place in the underground, where famous people on television crossed paths. It had a particular wave that allowed them to be ‘Garlic prawns’, with Verónica Llinás and Alejandra Fletchner, With Guillermo Vilas and Alberto Olmedo, It was a wide and diverse fauna. It had an opening to dissent, which although it was not a place LGBT, they were accepted and different tribes coexisted in harmony. In other places it was not like that”, adds the director.
The change in the era of how nightlife was lived in the ’80s influenced its owner Juan Lepes. Inspired by movement new wave New Yorker and British. The owner opted for a decadent elegance, trashy but neat, at its opening in 1985. At the inauguration it was thought of as a recital venue for emerging bands such as Soda Stereo or Patricio Rey and his Redonditos de Ricotabut the public began to use the space as a dance floor.
in full “alphonsinist spring”There was a certain idea of a change in the cultural paradigm that faded in a couple of years and changed completely in the ’90s. Novick details it: “When I started looking for a file to illustrate the testimonies, I realized that there was none. At first I thought that people at that time had lived the night so intensely that it had not occurred to them to film it. However, Jorge Dorio He explains it by making it known that there was a code in Paladium that invited there to be no registration. In Cemento, there were tribes that defended their identity and promoted it by recording themselves, on the other hand, in Paladium, there was such an openness to diversity that it was not necessary. All the tribes lived there and that registration was not necessary.
One of the enigmas that the documentary, and the event, is trying to solve the curiosity of what the place was like. From the spatial to the aesthetic, the filmmaker himself had to interview the architect who designed the nightclub in order to answer the question. That is the seed by which the proposal to revive “A Night at the Paladium” is linked, in which the public can enter by purchasing advance tickets through Passline, on Saturday, March 18. And also, on the big screen, in its future premiere in movie theaters.
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