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Pinochet and the 1973 Coup
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Patio 29: Stories of Silence Get Details and Purchasing Info
Esteban Larrain
Documentary 84 minutes 1998
With English subtitles
In the weeks that followed the September 11, 1973 coup, the military government began a massive operation to exterminate dissidents. Community leaders, leftist activists, and even people with no political affiliations were arrested, tortured, and executed. During the spring nights of 1973, military trucks drove through Santiago picking up hundreds of dead bodies; many of them were buried in unmarked graves in a desolate area known as Patio 29 in Santiago's General Cemetery. This film documents the horrific events through interviews with victims' relatives, witnesses to the executions, lawyers, and forensic anthropologists who exhumed and identified the remains 20 years later.
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Indigenous Culture and History
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Last Trace, The Get Details and Purchasing Info
Paola Castillo
Documentary 67 minutes 2001
With English subtitles
The rugged and secluded hinterlands of Southern Chile were once the home of the Yagan Indians. But contact with the outside world has led to their assimilation and cultural disappearance. In 1832, there were 6,000 Yagans. In 1945, there were 39. Now, the only remaining speakers of the Yagan language are two elderly sisters, Úrsula and Cristina Calderón. The solitude of their twilight years is infused with their memories of the old people, the old values, the old songs and rituals, and with the knowledge that after their death it will all disappear.Beautifully shot in a harsh but achingly picturesque landscape of gravel beaches, snowy mountains, and the bright Antarctic sky, the film also evokes the past through old anthropological film and photographs of the community’s long-dead elders. The old sisters pore over the old photos, and visit the cemetery where their ancestors are buried, the plot where their home once stood, and a place called Frozen Bay, where the Yagans harvested pigment for ritual face-painting long ago. But the sisters and their descendants are determined to stem the loss of their traditional knowledge. They are deeply engaged in the work of preservation: writing a dictionary of the Yagan language, exhibiting photos at a local museum, and passing down the old traditional values of equality and mutual respect. THE LAST TRACE documents these women as living testaments of the traditional culture of the original occupants of this lonely and beautiful land.
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