This documentary, made entirely of archival footage shot mainly by amateurs, revisits 50 years of Chilean history. A fascinating lesson in memory, this personal montage adopts a popular, even fringe, perspective to help write a more complete national memory. As the filmmaker asserts in her narration, there’s the history we’re told, the history we live, and the history we tell ourselves. Between the coup d’état of September 11, 1973, and the recent double failure of the new constitution project, this film shows that the people of Chile have long oscillated between excitement and disappointment, accumulating shattered hopes. Rejecting the pessimism that would trap us in collective immobility, Karin Cuyul instead draws on the past to ask how we can continue to dream of the necessary social and political changes.
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Director
Karin Cuyul
Assistant Director
José Cardenas Lorca
Screenplay
Karin Cuyul
Editor
Federico Atehortúa Arteaga
Producer
Jerónimo Atehortúa Arteaga
Producer
Josephine Schroeder
film archivessociopoliticalcollective memorypolítica