Documentary Cinema in Chile: Confronting History, Memory, Trauma

Nearly three decades after the end of the dictatorship of General Pinochet, the documentary cinema of Chile has confronted with sophisticated and incisive approaches the memory of this nation's historical catastrophe. More than any other medium amidst a diverse and active political memory culture, documentary films have exposed state-sponsored atrocities and their perpetrators, recovered survivors' memories of loss, suffering, and resilience, and posed decisive questions that continue to un...