Event overview
Nostalgia de la luz - A 2010 documentary by Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán
Public Screening organised by Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths - ALL Welcome! No registration needed.
What could possibly connect a team of astronomers exploring the sky with the most powerful telescopes and a group of women searching for the remnants of their lost relatives in a vast and endless desert? In Nostalgia for the light (2010), a documentary by Chilean director Patricio Guzmán, offers both a poetic and a moving answer.
Patricio Guzmán’s documentary hinges on a permanent shift between two human experiences, both set in the Chilean desert of Atacama. The first experience introduces the scientific work of astronomers exploring constellations and trying to understand the origins of the cosmos. The second experience refers to a desperate but ongoing search by Chilean women, looking for the bodies of their relatives, executed during Pinochet’s dictatorship and believed to be buried in the Atacama Desert. Despite their visible difference, both experiences draw up various similarities and offer a common set of questions and reflections about state violence, past, memory, trauma, and identity.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 29 Oct 2024 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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