Patricio Guzmán, whose film The Battle of Chile chronicled Pinochet's coup, talks to Sukhdev Sandhu about Nostalgia for the Light, his new meditation on astronomy
Patricio Guzmán, the director responsible for The Battle of Chile (1975-1979), widely regarded as one of the towering achievements in the history of documentary film, is talking about its invisibility in the country where he was born. "It has never been transmitted on Chilean television. It provokes fear among executives. They do not dare. When all of us are dead then someone will dare to put it on screen. Meanwhile, every time someone on television is talking about Allende, they steal images from my film but use them in a context different from the original."
The Battle of Chile emerged during a period of revolutionary turmoil across Latin America. Mass movements against authoritarianism and for socialist emancipation were on the rise. A generation of insurgent...
Patricio Guzmán, the director responsible for The Battle of Chile (1975-1979), widely regarded as one of the towering achievements in the history of documentary film, is talking about its invisibility in the country where he was born. "It has never been transmitted on Chilean television. It provokes fear among executives. They do not dare. When all of us are dead then someone will dare to put it on screen. Meanwhile, every time someone on television is talking about Allende, they steal images from my film but use them in a context different from the original."
The Battle of Chile emerged during a period of revolutionary turmoil across Latin America. Mass movements against authoritarianism and for socialist emancipation were on the rise. A generation of insurgent...
- 7/20/2012
- by Sukhdev Sandhu
- The Guardian - Film News
Somehow, there hardly seems a more pertinent time for a wide U.S. release of Patricio Guzmán's epochal "The Battle of Chile" (1975-78), a massive, three-part vérité documentary about the rise of Salvador Allende's socialist government and its subsequent usurpation by the country's American-backed military junta.
The title of Part 1 -- "The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie" -- says it all: imagine, if you can, the heaven-sent Bizarro-world where a people-power government is successfully installed, triumphantly wresting control of the starving nation's major industries and resources from corporations and multinationals, and thereby precipitating an overt and covert insurrection led by the business owners and bankers and moneyed class.
You know a truly democratic, for-the-people policy is working if you enrage the wealthy, a rare situation that smacks, lightly, of what's happening in this country at the moment, as Republicans and corporations have gone berserk trying to stop Obama from...
The title of Part 1 -- "The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie" -- says it all: imagine, if you can, the heaven-sent Bizarro-world where a people-power government is successfully installed, triumphantly wresting control of the starving nation's major industries and resources from corporations and multinationals, and thereby precipitating an overt and covert insurrection led by the business owners and bankers and moneyed class.
You know a truly democratic, for-the-people policy is working if you enrage the wealthy, a rare situation that smacks, lightly, of what's happening in this country at the moment, as Republicans and corporations have gone berserk trying to stop Obama from...
- 12/8/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
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