Film Screening: Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán, 2010)

Thursday 15th May, 2014

6pm, Hitchcock Cinema, Arts One

Introduced by Dr Andrea Brady
Nostalgia for the Light is a documentary by Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile, The Pinochet Case). In the arid landscapes of the Atacama Desert, Guzman encounters cutting-edge technologies for probing the origins of the universe, archaeologists recovering the remains of the 19th century, and women seeking out their dead, prisoners ‘disappeared’ after the military coup of 1973. The film contrasts these different investigations into place, memory, and the past, tragedy and rationality, science and kinship.