Chile Under Pinochet: A Film Chronology of Dictatorship and Memory
From the 1973 coup to its afterlives in national memory, these films trace violence, silence, resistance, and the ways Chile continues to confront Pinochet’s violent legacy.
Augusto Pinochet
‘A Yard of Jackals’ and the Sound of Dictatorship
Sound editing is crucial in Chilean horror film A Yard of Jackals; we see nothing (thankfully), yet we can imagine in rich detail everything.
Chilean Author Nona Fernández’s Historical Fiction ‘The Twilight Zone’ Dismantles Good and Evil Dichotomies
In search of answers from Chile’s painful past, Nona Fernández imagines and reconstructs the events surrounding the testimony of a real-life torturer in her book, The Twilight Zone.
Patricio Guzmán’s ‘Nostalgia for the Light’ and the Nature of Time
Patricio Guzmán’s post-Pinoche film Nostalgia for the Light reflects upon how we, as creatures of time, will never escape the past.
Costa-Gavras’ ‘Missing’ Is Made for Americans
Missing, which focuses on American Charles Horman’s disappearance during Pinochet’s coup, remains a strong, moving experience and reminder that kidnapping and torture are tools of totalitarianism everywhere.