The Battle of Chile: The Obstinate Memory of a Crushed Utopia José Sarmiento November 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Un País que no tiene cine documental es como una familia sin álbum de fotografías.” - Patricio Guzmán (1) “I made the film because I was passionate about what was going on. It was like opening your window an...
Nostalgia for the Light Christopher Sharrett November 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film As I write this, the United States celebrates Patriot Day, the term used to commemorate the attacks on New York and Washington, DC, of 11 September 2001, usually rendered with the numerals “9/11”, giving the ev...
Funeral for a Memory: Patricio Guzmán’s Salvador Allende Louise Sheedy November 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Memory is crucial to the understanding of a culture precisely because it indicates collective desires, needs and self-definitions. We need not to ask whether a memory is true but rather what its telling reveal...
The Pinochet Case Lee Hill November 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film Patricio Guzmán’s Le Cas Pinochet (The Pinochet Case, 2001) is more than just a coda to his epic La batalla de Chile (The Battle of Chile, 1975-79), it is a sober, dispassionate reminder that justice pursued is...
