Obrazy kapitalizmu, obrazy terroru – kino Patricia Guzmána
Images of Capitalism, Images of Terror: On Patricio Guzmán’s Films

Author(s): Katarzyna Warmuz
Subject(s): Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Patricio Guzmán; Chilean documentary cinema; Chilean political Cinema
Summary/Abstract: This article’s aim is to present the characteristics of Patricio Guzman’s documentary films. In his works, the Chilean director goes back to the times of Pinochet dictatorship. While narrating his account of the crimes perpetrated by the said regime, he endeavours to preserve memory of the events and, at the same time, wonders why the contemporary Chileans discard the memories of the terror years. The author of the article analyses such films as Nostalgia for the Light (2010) and The Pearl Button (2015), underscoring both their social message and, what is peculiar to them, interweaving of the nature images with tales about bloody reign of the Junta.

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