Articles and Resources Patricio Guzmán
Context (Allende’s government and Pinochet’s dictatorship)
Center for Journalism Ethics: “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.
Victor Figueroa Clark: “Chile: Salvador Allende 40 years on.”
Jack Devine: “What Really Happened in Chile: The CIA, the Coup Against Allende, and the Rise of Pinochet“
Peter A. Goldberg: “The Politics of the Allende Overthrow in Chile.”
Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine
Documentary based on The Shock Doctrine
Interviews and Profiles
Declan McGrath: “Metaphors, Dreams, and History: An Interview with Patricio Guzmán and Renate Sachse.”
Haden Guest and Eduardo Ledesma: “Ad Astra per Aspera: An Interview with Patricio Guzmán.”
Dennis West: “Imagining a Brighter Future: An Interview with Patricio Guzmán.”
Paula Cucurella: “Specters of Justice: An Essay on the Documentary Films of Patricio Guzmán, Justice, and Ghosts.”
Tom Gatehouse: “Interview with Patricio Guzmán.”
Graig Uhlin: “The Natural and Unnatural Histories of Patricio Guzmán.”
The Battle of Chile, 1975-1979
This documentary is about the things that happened in Chile in the early 1970s. It shows how President Salvador Allende 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.
Julianne Burton: “Patricio Guzmán: Politics and the Documentary in People’s Chile.”
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky: “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Patricio Guzmán: lessons from The Battle of Chile (1975-9).”
Victor Wallis: “Battle of Chile: Struggle of a People without Arms.”
Chile, the Obstinate Memory, 1997
Kaitlin M. Murphy: “The Materiality of Memory: Touching, Seeing, and Being the Past in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, Memoria Obstinada.”
Jeffrey Skoler: “Chile: La Memoria Obstanada, (Chile: Obstinant Memory), Patricio Guzman.”
Akshaya Kumar: “From Erotics to Poetics of Documentary Remembering: Patricio Guzman’s Battle of Chile (1979) and Chile: An Obstinate Memory (1997).”
The Case Pinochet, 2001
Patricia Aufderheide: “The Importance of Historical Memory: An Interview with Patricio Guzmán by Patricia Aufderheide.”
Michael J. Lazzara: “Guzmán’s Allende.”
Juan Carlos Rodríguez: “Framing Ruins: Patricio Guzmán’s Postdictatorial Documentaries.”
Macarena Gómez-Barris: “Transnational Communities of Affinity: Patricio Guzmán’s The Pinochet Case.“
Nostalgia for the Light, 2010
Conversation Between Frederick Wiseman and Patricio Guzman (EPK)
David Martin-Jones: “Archival Landscapes and a Non-Anthropocentric ‘Universe Memory’ in Nostalgia de la luz/Nostalgia for the Light (2010).”
William Guynn: “Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for The Light.”
Kaitlin M. Murphy: “Remembering in ruins: Touching, seeing and feeling the past in Nostalgia de la luz/Nostalgia for the Light ([2010] 2011).”
Sílvia Leindecker and Michael Fox: “Nostalgia, Memory, and Revolution: An Interview With Patricio Guzmán.”
Alan Norrie: “Identification, atonement and the moral psychology of violation: on Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light.”
Niall HD Geraghty: “Terror and Awe. Toward a Posthuman Politics in Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz (2010).”
Cristina Ruiz-Poveda Vera: “Those who don’t remember don’t exist anywhere:” Historical Redemption in Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light (2010).”
Tjalling Valdés Olmos: “Dis/Orientating Times: Questioning the Coloniality of Chilean Post-Dictatorial Memory Practices Through Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia De La Luz.”
John Parham and Pippa Marland: “Every Night the Universe Passes over Santiago. Transnational “Ecocinema” and Visualising Environmental Histories in Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light.”
Patrick Blaine: “Representing Absences in the Postdictatorial Documentary Cinema of Patricio Guzmán.”
Macarena Gómez‐Barris: “Atacama Remains and Post Memory.”
Nora Szegvari: “Collecting Stardust: Matter, Memory, and Trauma in Patricio Guzmán’s ‘Nostalgia for the Light’.”
Jenny Edkins: “Stardust.”
Nico Couret: “Scale as Nostalgic Form: Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light (2011).”
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 and the genocide of Indigenous peoples are connected to the victims that were survived during the military regime.
María Pilar Melgarejo: “A Poetic of Beauty: Nature, Memory and Resilience in El Botón de Nacar/The Pearl Button (2015).”
Carolina Díaz: “Ecologies from Below: Politics and the Memory of Water in Patricio Guzman’s The Pearl Button.”
Tom Winterbottom: “Human Rights and the Shadow of Chile’s Dictatorship: Patricio Guzmán and the Poetics of a Cinematic Landscape.”
Gareth Wood: “Chapter 5 Temporal and Geographical Markers of Civilization in Patricio Guzmán’s El botón de nácar.”
J. Sebastián Figueroa: “Landscapes of Extraction and the Memories of Extinction in Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz and El botón de nácar.“
Kevin Brendan Martinez Murphy: “Patricio Guzmán and Post Exile: The Memory Box of Chile’s Past and Present.”
Nan Zheng: “A Trilogy for the Defeated: Nonhuman Affect of Landscapes and Objects in Patricio Guzmán’s Post-Transitional Documentaries.”
Camila Ruz: “Dawson Island torture victims fight for compensation in Chile.”
My Imaginary Country, 2022
Jepke Goudsmit: “Chile’s second revolution.”
Rubén Dittus: “Lo contemporáneo en el filme Mi país imaginario.”
José Miguel Palacios: “Beyond Memory: An Introduction.”
Atacama Dessert
Benito Gómez-Silva and Ramón Alberto Batista-García: “The Atacama Desert: A Biodiversity Hotspot and Not Just a Mineral-Rich Region.”
Historical Memory and Postmemory
José Miguel Palacios: “Exile, Archives, and Transnational Film History: The Returns of Chilean Exile Cinema.”
Camila Gavin‑Bravo“: “Semillas de la rebelión: Revolutionary postmemory, hip‑hop, and Chilean exile.”
Kawésqar Indigenous Communities
Lars Östlund et al.: “Culturally modified trees and forest structure at a Kawésqar ancient settlement at Río Batchelor, western Patagonia.”
Rodrigo Becerra: “Kawésqar (Chile) — Language Snapshot.”
