Wednesday 18th April
5:00pm 'Korpu-Nater' (Video Dance)
Synopsis
The Korpu Nater shows humans, their activities and freedom on the environment, as opposed to a dynamic set of sinuous nature, questioning the man and the effect of belonging to the natural environment, the state of impropriety of the human species before it. Human beings, as the latest product of the evolution of life, breaking and being greeted by several places where the human condition is revealed as a configuration that is in constant flux, never fixed, never static, never finished.
Director: Carlos Dittborn Callejas
Country: Chile
Running time: 6 min
The Korpu Nater shows humans, their activities and freedom on the environment, as opposed to a dynamic set of sinuous nature, questioning the man and the effect of belonging to the natural environment, the state of impropriety of the human species before it. Human beings, as the latest product of the evolution of life, breaking and being greeted by several places where the human condition is revealed as a configuration that is in constant flux, never fixed, never static, never finished.
Director: Carlos Dittborn Callejas
Country: Chile
Running time: 6 min
The following screenings are to
commemorate the fortieth anniversary, next year, of the military coup d’Etat in Chile.
Aseo General
Synopsis
In 1973 in Chile, at the height of the internal tension during Salvador Allende’s three years in office, Carmen, a university employee, maintains her faith in the Socialist Government despite the constant questioning by her colleague Juan and her partner Víctor, who, confronted with the imminent coup, opts for a more radical response than she does. Carmen maintains her hope with the support of Carvajal, an exemplary proletarian in charge of cleaning up the university.
Director: Paulina Costa
Country: Chile
Running time: 23min
Tickets £2.00
In 1973 in Chile, at the height of the internal tension during Salvador Allende’s three years in office, Carmen, a university employee, maintains her faith in the Socialist Government despite the constant questioning by her colleague Juan and her partner Víctor, who, confronted with the imminent coup, opts for a more radical response than she does. Carmen maintains her hope with the support of Carvajal, an exemplary proletarian in charge of cleaning up the university.
Director: Paulina Costa
Country: Chile
Running time: 23min
Tickets £2.00
6:00pm 'Dawson: Isla 10'
Synopsis
After the coup d’Etat in Chile in September 1973, a group of former Allende´s ministers and authorities are held prisoner and taken to Dawson Island, a concentration camp located in the Magellan Strait. Sergio Bitar, a former minister wrote the book Isla 10 after he was liberated with the help of the UN and Red Cross among others. Director Miguel Littin (two nominations at the Oscars for Best Foreign Motion Picture) based his story on this bestseller, following the path of these men who lived months of seclusion, sadness, and uncertainty at the most southern concentration camp in the world. Here their bonds grew, as did their memories and testimonies of history.
Director: Miguel Littin
Country: Chile
Running time: 117 min
Tickets £5.00
After the coup d’Etat in Chile in September 1973, a group of former Allende´s ministers and authorities are held prisoner and taken to Dawson Island, a concentration camp located in the Magellan Strait. Sergio Bitar, a former minister wrote the book Isla 10 after he was liberated with the help of the UN and Red Cross among others. Director Miguel Littin (two nominations at the Oscars for Best Foreign Motion Picture) based his story on this bestseller, following the path of these men who lived months of seclusion, sadness, and uncertainty at the most southern concentration camp in the world. Here their bonds grew, as did their memories and testimonies of history.
Director: Miguel Littin
Country: Chile
Running time: 117 min
Tickets £5.00
9:00pm 'Post-Mortem'
Synopsis
Mario works in a morgue typing autopsy reports. In the midst of the 1973 Chilean coup d’Etat, he fantasizes about his neighbour, a cabaret dancer, Nancy, who mysteriously disappears on September the 11th. After a violent army raid on her family’s home, he hears about the arrest of her brother and father, a prominent Communist and Salvador Allende supporter. Troubled and spurred on by the thought of losing his would-be lover, Mario begins his frantic search for Nancy. Allende’s government has been overthrown and people are dying in the streets. The Chilean Army seizes the morgue and numerous corpses pile up, but Mario can’t get his mind off of Nancy. He carries out his job, thinking that he might find her among the dead, and one night…”
Director: Pablo Larraín
Country: Chile
Running time: 90min
Tickets £5.00
Mario works in a morgue typing autopsy reports. In the midst of the 1973 Chilean coup d’Etat, he fantasizes about his neighbour, a cabaret dancer, Nancy, who mysteriously disappears on September the 11th. After a violent army raid on her family’s home, he hears about the arrest of her brother and father, a prominent Communist and Salvador Allende supporter. Troubled and spurred on by the thought of losing his would-be lover, Mario begins his frantic search for Nancy. Allende’s government has been overthrown and people are dying in the streets. The Chilean Army seizes the morgue and numerous corpses pile up, but Mario can’t get his mind off of Nancy. He carries out his job, thinking that he might find her among the dead, and one night…”
Director: Pablo Larraín
Country: Chile
Running time: 90min
Tickets £5.00