mirando al sur / looking south
Chile/U.S.A. 1999. Hi8/SVHS, color, sound. TRT: 18min.
Synopsis
Essay film that documents the filmmaker’s visit to her native Chile after living abroad for an extended period and at the same time of Augusto Pinochet’s arrest in London. The film captures a range of reactions to the dictator’s detention along with the filmmaker’s own reflections. mirando al sur explores the attachment to a traumatic history that functions as an anchor for a self undergoing the inevitable transformation that comes with migration.
Selected Screenings
2006 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.
2000 Best of Show, Des Moines Art Center Film and Video Festival, Des Moines, IA.
Credits
Director, Producer, Screenplay, Camera, Edit, Sound Design:
Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo
Production Assistant: Mónica Cornejo Sotelo