‘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.
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The Settlers’ Blood-Chilling Journey into Humankind’s ‘Heart of Darkness’
Chilean revisionist Western, The Settlers, is a powerful film whose director shows admirable moral integrity that’s often absent in film history.
Dancing Post-Pinochet to Los Prisioneros’ ‘Corazones’
Los Prisioneros evolved from a politicized youthful New Wave sound to a synthpop-infused dynamic that would propel the trio to post-Pinochet stardom.
The Returned Gaze of the Past: Patricio Guzmán’s ‘The First Year’
Films like The First Year play a crucial role in how nations negotiate and re-negotiate their self-image, and its reemergence is yet another step forward for post-Pinochet Chile.
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.
Mapuche Filmmaker Claudia Huaiquimilla on Indigenous Identity and Filming from the Trenches
After her prized 2017 film, Bad Influence displayed the oppression of the indigenous Mapuche people in Chile, filmmaker Claudia Huaiquimilla’s work continues to dig into her country’s deeply entrenched inequalities.
‘Multiple Choice’ Is Like a Mark Rothko or Jackson Pollock Painting
This sparse, abstract literary text gives us ample room to interpret and to question the very notion of interpretation.
Aisles: 4.45 AM
The real variance between a band of sophisticated copycats and this bunch is indeed intelligence.
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.