Documentary about the historical and social relevance of the most important football club in Chile, Colo-Colo.
The "cueca" is Chile's national dance. Marveled by this form of dancing, the narrator reflects on the meaning of dance in our lives and how it has been portrayed in the history of cinema.
Draped in an electric blue fabric, the artist acts as a conduit between the tangile and the spiritual, blurring the boundaries between human form and natural elements.
"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in "Postcard". As the years go by, landscapes transform, take on new meanings, and hold onto joys that will never be regained. The sea and the beach, once stages of happy summers, romances, and encounters, will turn into concentration camps or centers of detention and torture. This occurs across different times and places. In this piece, I embark on a journey through some of my works that explore the relationship between testimony, spaces, and time, engaging in dialogue with the beautiful film directed by Alejandro Segovia in 1972.
During the first days after the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Unity government was arrested and transferred to Dawson Island, Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile and the mainland. The wives of the then political prisoners began an incessant effort to find out the whereabouts of their husbands and then try to return them alive. In these circumstances, they meet and spontaneously organize into a group they call the “Dawsonianas.”
Filmmaker Rodrigo Dorfman goes in search of his revolutionary roots in Chile and in the process finds it in the euphoria of the Occupy Movement.
This film visualizes humanity’s quest to relentlessly pursue goals. In the human fight for progress, the march forward cannot be stopped, even when individual people become weary and die. This animated short is based on a poem by the Chilean filmmaker and poet Juan Forch. Chilean painter Hernando León created the design.
This short animation collage uncovers the financial backing of the Chilean Junta bosses by the US. Screened at the 1976 Oberhausen Int. Film Festival.
This short, animated piece of agitprop fiercely expresses the hopes of the Chilean people.
It follows the story of María Carolina Geel, a writer who kills her lover at the Hotel Crillón in Santiago in 1955.
Concert by Víctor Jara at Panamericana Televisión in Lima, Peru, on July 17, 1973. This is one of the last audiovisual records of Víctor Jara. Two months later he would be assassinated by the Chilean military dictatorship.
Nicanor, a struggling writer, is desperately looking for an artist to illustrate the cover of his book. However, the artist's conditions will reveal a dark and disturbing journey towards artistic obsession.
Basement Games tells the story of Laura, a young traveling photographer who, while traveling in southern Chile, is kidnapped by some brothers who live in a rural town, unleashing a horrible ordeal at the hands of her captors.
When the internet reception goes down in the middle of a town far away from the city, a young woman decides to leave her house to go for a walk and ends up finding a mysterious pit in the middle of nowhere.
