Articles and Resources Patricio Guzmán

Context (Allende’s government and Pinochet’s dictatorship)

After September 11 . . . 1973: Chilean Journalism at the Crossroads by Shakuntala Rao  -This article explains some of the media and journalism censorship that occurred during Pinochet’s dictatorship, the lack of freedom of the press and the rights journalists now have that democracy has resumed.  

The Battle of Chile, 1975-1979

This documentary is about the things that happened in Chile in the early 1970s. It shows how the countries president tried to make life better for the not so wealthy people so opposed to that the military and wealthy people rose against him starting a coup within the country.  

Chile, the Obstinate Memory, 1997 

The Case Pinochet, 2001 

The Importance of Historical Memory: An Interview with Patricio Guzmán by Patricia Aufderheide

Nostalgia for the Light, 2010 

Interview with Patricio Guzmán by Tom Gatehouse -Tea 

Video interview with Patricio Guzmán 

The Pearl Button, 2015 

In the film, Patricio Guzmán uses different stories and voices from the people. Memory and history are intertwined in the documentary; the history of Chile is connected to the victims that were survived during the military regime.  

https://catedraltomada.pitt.edu/ojs/catedraltomada/article/view/421

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30172637

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selknam_genocide 

My Imaginary Country, 2022 

Atacama Dessert 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8865075

Historical Memory and Postmemory

“Exile, Archives, and Transnational Film History: The Returns of Chilean Exile Cinema” by José Miguel Palacios (found by Xavier B.)  

https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/article/887026

“Semillas de la rebelión: Revolutionary postmemory, hip‑hop, and Chilean exile” by Camila Gavin‑Bravo (found by Xavier) 

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057/s41276-022-00407-x.pdf

Kawésqar Indigenous Communities 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10745-020-00200-1

https://www.lddjournal.org/article/id/1196/