[csaa-forum] Chilean film-making seminar @ UNSW

[James Donald]

UNSW Media Film and Theatre Seminars
5 p.m. Webster Building 327
Wednesday 30 August

STEALING BACK
ARCHIVES AND CHILEAN FILM-MAKING

PABLO LEIGHTON

This talk and film screening will consider the making of new Chilean 
film cultures that rescue and reframe historical media material, 
concentrating on the formal and informal use of audio-visual archives.

I will illustrate the reappropriation and reconstruction of a Chilean 
audio-visual practice - literally destroyed in the past - from 
different sources and through excerpts of film pieces of my own, 
which range from fiction to experimental documentaries.

These works have led me to a theoretical doctorate research about the 
media culture of propaganda under both military and democratic 
political regimes in Chile. My doctorate will cover the 1970 
democratic election of the first Marxist president, the 1973 coup and 
the military dictatorship that stayed in power until 1990, and the 
current democratic regime which has kept Pinochet's Constitution and 
his neoliberal socio-economic administration intact.

This research has been undertaken in the School of Media, Film and 
Theatre at UNSW as part of an Endeavour Research Fellowship.

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Pablo Leighton is currently a PhD candidate at the Universidad de 
Santiago de Chile, in the Latino American Studies program. He studied 
film-making in California and Boston, and journalism in Chile.

-- 
Dr James Donald
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre
University of New South Wales
Sydney
NSW 2052
Australia

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