This month marks fifty years since the military coup d’état in Chile, which ushered in two decades of brutal dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet. Dramatizing and allegorizing that harrowing chapter in Latin American history, the films in this collection excavate the past in a rousing mode of critical remembrance. Chile’s lingering nightmares are rendered in spellbinding stop-motion in Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s short fantasia, The Bones (2021), and in their feature-length marvel, The Wolf House (2018). Pablo Larraín’s majestic yet horrific Post Mortem (2010), meanwhile, returns to 1973 to dissect the diseased body politic of that seismic moment. Across this collection, filmmakers grapple with the past and its aftershocks, using cinema as a powerful tool for collective mourning on the long road back to democracy.

This month marks fifty years since the military coup d&#8217;état in Chile, which ushered in two decades of brutal dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet. Dramatizing and allegorizing that harrowing chapter in Latin American history, the films in this collection excavate the past in a rousing mode of critical remembrance. Chile&#8217;s lingering nightmares are rendered in spellbinding stop-motion in Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña&#8217;s short fantasia, The Bones (2021), and in their feature-length marvel, The Wolf House (2018). Pablo Larraín&#8217;s majestic yet horrific Post Mortem (2010), meanwhile, returns to 1973 to dissect the diseased body politic of that seismic moment. Across this collection, filmmakers grapple with the past and its aftershocks, using cinema as a powerful tool for collective mourning on the long road back to democracy.

Chilean Cinema: Living Memory

CHILEAN CINEMA: LIVING MEMORY

This month marks fifty years since the coup d’état in Chile, which ushered in two decades of brutal dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet. Dramatizing and allegorizing that dark chapter in Latin American history, these films excavate the past in a rousing mode of collective and critical remembrance.

This month marks fifty years since the coup d&#8217;état in Chile, which ushered in two decades of brutal dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet. Dramatizing and allegorizing that dark chapter in Latin American history, these films excavate the past in a rousing mode of collective and critical remembrance.