Completed - SPANISH-CHILEAN - Documentary, Art - Culture - 63 minutes
The film follows Vicente Ruiz, an inquisitive performer who started his career in Chile, during Pinochet´s dictatorship, using rare archive material.It´s an exploration of what it means to have a social role in art, from a past of censorship to a present where art has become complacent and institut
Year of production : 2022 Director(s) : Julio JORQUERA Producer(s) : Matias CARDONE (Invercine)
The performer Vicente Ruiz (60) find a poorly recorded file of “Antígona,” a Greek tragedy performed to dismiss his participation in the counterculture of the eighties in Chile. This record prompts him and others to reconnect with friends from a time of rebellion and pop in which they criticized their fearful and obedient social environment.The film performs the exercise of reconstructing with them some scenes from the archives found as a way to extract the memories and face their role as victims and once accomplices of the system established by the dictatorship.
Country(ies) : CHILE