Screening at Chile on Film

Saturday 23rd November, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (advance registration required).

http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/events/chile-on-film

Includes the first screening of my new video, ‘Chile: Divided Generations’ – a study of the politics of memory in Chile, extracted from a longer film, Interrupted Memory, on memory and politics in Argentina and Chile, coming soon.

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A Short Film About Money

Won’t solve your money problems, but it might make you think about why you’ve got them. ‘A Short Film About Money’ is a spin-off from a longer film I’ve been making with Lee Salter, ‘Secret City’, which launches soon.

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‘Secret City’ is an investigation into the Corporation of the City of London which governs the famous square mile that serves as joint-HQ with Wall Street for global finance capital. We originally thought we might include a sequence about the illusions of money, but in the end left it out, so instead we fashioned the footage we’d collected into the satirical short you can see here.

Watch the trailer for Secret City here.

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9 Notes About Digital Cinema

A new online journal from Colombia,  Corónica, has posted a short interview with me on video, made by Juan Soto, called ‘9 Notes on Digital Cinema’. (In Spanish and English, with subtitles.)

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It accompanies my film on the students protests in Chile, ‘Three Short Films about Chile’.

http://cine.revistacoronica.com/2012/09/tres-cortos-sobre-chile-por-michael.html

which Javier Toloza writes about here (in Spanish):

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‘Protest Chile’ screening 22 September

Screening of ‘Protest Chile’ (last part of 3 About Chile) at DocHouse RESISTENCIA: FOCUS ON LATIN AMERICA on Saturday 22nd September | Rich Mix Cinema, E1, at 2.30

(Day begins at 12.30 – details http://bit.ly/NpyRO8)

DocHouse presents…

‘RESISTENCIA: Focus on Latin America’

A journey across Latin America today, through revealing documentaries and illuminating discussion.

DAY PASS – £22 / £18 student or concs
SINGLE TICKETS – £7 / £5 student or concs

A panoramic view across Latin America today, from life at the Mexican border, through the Peruvian jungle, and all the way to the streets of Rio.

These outstanding documentaries show the Latin America you don’t see on TV.

No horror stories of drug cartels and gangsters, these award-winning docs and discussions are about the indigenous people of Latin America – from Peru to Brazil to Cuba – those suffering from, and those resisting, the international, corporate exploitation of their land and resources.

Saturday 22nd September

12.30pm ONE FRONTIER, ALL FRONTIERS – UK PREMIERE – (David Pablos, Mexico, 2010)
Contemplating life on either side of the 2,000 mile wall that separates Mexico from the USA.

+ THE INVISIBLES (Marc Silver & Gael García Bernal, UK/ Mexico, 2010)
Meet migrants on the dangerous journey to the border.


2.30pm LAW OF THE JUNGLE – LONDON PREMIERE – (Michael Christoffersen, Hans la Cour, Denmark, 2012)
A young indigenous leader and his lawyer fight the government and PlusPetrol for his rights and his freedom.

+ PROTEST CHILE (Michael Chanan, UK / Chile, 2011)
Capturing Chile’s mass student demonstrations.


3.10pm CITY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS (Sebastián Moreno, Chile, 2006)
The story of the fearless Chilean photographers who risked death to record life under Pinochet’s brutal military regime.

+ WITH FIDEL WHATEVER HAPPENS (Goran Radovanovic, Serbia, 2011)
The 52nd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, in the sedate village of Sierra Mastra.


8pm STOLEN LAND – UK PREMIERE – (Margarita Martínez & Miguel Salazar, Colombia, 2010)
The Nasa people of southern Colombia are fighting to reclaim their ancestral land.

Join us for ‘drinks between the docs’ for a taste of Latin America too.  Complimentary Chilean wine provided by TRIO and exotic fruit juices provided by Fruto del Espíritu.


www.dochouse.org 

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