This Be The Media! virtual workshop features a talk and Q&A with master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán, live from Paris on Friday, May 22, 2020. Local filmmaker Daniel Mosquera, professor of Hispanic and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Union College, provided simultaneous translation.
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Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival, the discussion focused on with Guzmán’s The Cordillera of Dreams, the latest film which completes his trilogy (with Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl Button). The film investigating the relationship between historical memory, political trauma, and geography in his native country of Chile. It centers on the imposing landscape of the Andes that run the length of the country’s Eastern border. At once protective and isolating, magisterial and indifferent, the Cordillera serves as an enigmatic focal point around which Guzmán contemplates the enduring legacy of the 1973 military coup d’état. Guzmán's other renowned films include "The Battle of Chile" and "Salvadore Allende."
This event and screening is co-sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
