Category Archives: Chile

Cultural environmentalism in Leicester

by michaelc Posted on 8 March 2020

A small but fascinating interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Leicester on March 6th, on the theme of environmental justice in Latin America, convened by Paula Serafini, proved a congenial occasion for a screening of ‘Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes’. The … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Screenings in London

by michaelc Posted on 30 December 2014

‘Interrupted Memory’ at Birkbeck Friday 9 January at 6pm One of the interviewees in Interrupted Memory (Memoria interrumpida) (Michael Chanan, 2013, 116mns) recalls being detained in the 1976 coup in Argentina. She was beaten and raped. She began, defensively, to … Continue reading →

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Latin America in Tübingen

by michaelc Posted on 20 February 2014

In the world of film studies, Germany is a country not much associated with the investigation of Latin American cinema, but here we were, gathering in the small university town of Tübingen for a Spanish-speaking symposium on ‘Encuadrando La Dictadura … Continue reading →

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Chile on Film: A One-day Symposium

by michaelc Posted on 28 October 2013

Saturday 23rd November, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (advance registration required). http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/events/chile-on-film Includes the first screening of my new video, ‘Chile: Divided Generations’ – a study of the politics of memory in Chile, extracted from a longer … Continue reading →

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Coming soon: ‘Interrupted Memory’ / ‘Memoria interrumpida’

by michaelc Posted on 31 July 2013

Interrupted Memory is the title of the film I’ve been shooting over the last three months in Argentina and Chile, a documentary about memory and politics which follows the course of people in the act of remembering in front of the … Continue reading →

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