The series “La Revolución Del Pueblo”: Muestra De Nuevo Cine Experimental Chilenx will be streaming on the virtual cinema Sept. 1-15. Tickets are available on a sliding scale with a suggested donation of $12.
In October 2019 a new popular movement was born in the streets of Santiago, Chile. Triggered by a fare increase of 30 pesos (around four cents), the movement soon came to embody 30 years of social discontent with a neoliberal model and a constitution imposed in 1980 under Pinochet’s dictatorship. As this new movement continues to grow in different cities of Chile, it is making its way to different social media platforms that have quickly formed a communal network. With a more direct way to share first-hand information coming from every neighborhood, people no longer need to rely on the national press, which is often controlled by wealthy families or the government.
The movement has also been marked by a resurgence of street photography. A profusion of images captured with portable cameras and phones are now part of a collective virtual encyclopedia. History in Chile has never had this much media coverage from so many angles. The paucity of images captured during the 1973 coup forced filmmakers at the time to use poetry in order to portray the missing picture. The long history of poetic documentaries in Chile, led by renowned directors like Patricio Guzmán, Pedro Chaskel (co-founder of the Experimental Cinema Center at the Universidad de Chile in 1957), and Ignacio Agüero, continues to this day with the duo Perut+Oznovikoff and José Luis Torres Leiva, among others. Their films explore different styles that break the conventions of documentary filmmaking, creating hybrid forms that share similarities with the American avant-garde cinema tradition.
New experimental cinema in Chile exposes and criticizes the abuse of power coming from governmental authorities, the police, and the military by borrowing elements of journalistic photography and Chile’s unique documentary culture. However, this time nothing can stop the proliferation of new film and video work in a vertiginous media revolution.
This program – organized on the occasion of the current social uprising in Chile – presents a diverse selection of new experimental work made by Chilean filmmakers living in Chile and abroad. Many of the works included here have never been screened theatrically before.
Curated by Anto Astudillo.
Cuentos de Mi Niñez Franci Duran, 1991, 8:39 min.
What Comes Between Cecilia Araneda, 2009, 5:38 min.
EDF Nicolás Rupcich, 2013, 5:25 min.
Altiplano Malena Szlam, 2018, 15:30 min.
Is Not the Way Nicolás Rupcich, 2019, 0:50 min.
Golpes Anto Astudillo, 2019, 7:18 min.
Aftershock 00101011 Matias Carvajal, 2019, 5:21 min.
Para que Nunca Más Colectivo Somoslacélula, 2019, 3:21 min.
Oasis de la Región Nicolás Rupcich, 2019, 0:52 min.
Estado Asesino Kati Antivilo Escobar, 2019, 1 min.
Noctvbre Gregor Egregor, 2019, 5:55 min.
Los Huesos Colectivo Cinematográfico Pedro Chaskel (CCPH), 2019, 1:37 min.
Las Manos Colectivo Cinematográfico Pedro Chaskel (CCPH), 2019, 3:42 min.
Bandera Falsa (Open Call “No Basta con Grabar”) Maxicat & Flavi Furtado, 2019, 1 min.
Este es un Ciudadano Chileno (Open Call “No Basta con Grabar”) Sebastián Arriagada, 2019, 0:57 min.
Camuflaje (Open Call “No Basta con Grabar”) Daniela Sabrovsky, 2019, 1 min.
Video Láser (Open Call “No Basta con Grabar”) Cristóbal Acevedo, 2019, 1 min.
Barricada (Open Call “No Basta con Grabar”) Margarita Carrasco, 2019, 0:59 min.
Qué Dirá el Santo Padre (Open Call “No Basta con Grabar”) Brigada de Registro, 2019, 0:52 min.
Ngoymalayiñ - No Olvidamos Comunidad Catrileo+Carrion, 2019, 2:58 min.
Corazones Unidos En La Lucha Flavichan Samurai y Makzeecat, 2019, 2 min.
You Can Take the Streets and Rule Them Because We Are of the Sky Eduardo Menz, 2014, 12:47 min.
Total running time: 97 min.
Filmmaker discussions with curator Anto Astudillo will be recorded and on view for the duration the series.
In conversation with Daniela Sabrovsky
In conversation with Colectivo Somoslacélula
In conversation with Maxicat & Flavi Furtado
In conversation with Matias Carvajal
In conversation with Franci Duran
In conversation with Catrileo & Carrion Community
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