Friday, May 23, 2008

How Should A Bill Of Sale Look

Memorial: New Work

During the month of May we started a new audiovisual adventure. In this case there is a competitive fund, or state resources nor foreign. This documentary was created as a flash, regarding the construction of the Memorial of the Disappeared and implement policies in Brazil Avenue in the city of Valparaiso.

Maria Eliana Herrera, artist responsible for the sculpture.
the following questions arose: How is set in terms of memory materials in the city? The symbol will be built under the feelings and views of the relatives of the victims? Can the state build the report? Does the Justice and Memory in our city agree? Are our dead the dead of all? Is it a sign of a new era to build a memorial in a conservative town, Valparaiso, oligarchic and military?

Hernán Bustamante, architect responsible for the installation of the Memorial

Well there are many questions but we have started this journey interviewing many people, children of victims whose names appear on the memorial.

Candice Interviewing Aguad, Actress and social worker whose father was shot in San Felipe in 1973

work continues, will continue in Quillota in Quintero and other locations we hope to build a documentary about memory , oblivion, the presence and absence. A document testifying to this effort and was linked to the emotionality of those who inherit an intimate way a tragic story. For them and their children is the job and the town where they live.


Interviewing José María, daughter of Abel Vilchez MIR leader disappeared in 1975 arrested

documentary is expected to be completed in the first phase of the June 15 shooting and start your post-production for to be exhibited in late August 2008.

in filming on 21 May during a tribute to Plaza Sotomayor Prat.


The film is financed by the filmmaker himself Andrés Brignardello and friends who graciously contribute to the development of the work.

The onconvenientes Filming took place without the support of the Navy, but there are always difficulties became no more.

During June we continued to record testimonies and coordinating the various elements of music production and management, production and post production for the final product has the quality needed for distribution in cities and neighboring countries such as the invoice for participation in festivals and exhibitions.

With Alfredo Garcia Concon Yellow Beach.

went to Con Con to interview Alfredo Garcia Vera, son of a MIR of the same name Disappeared in Valparaiso in January 1975. It was an encounter with a free look and transparent about the visions of politics and the permanent meeting with his father in the vastness of the ocean.

Coordinating with Alfredo Garcia filming on location.

Alfredo was also a second father was murdered by the dictatorship, it was José Carrasco, journalist killed after attack on Pinochet and which Alfredo recognized as a close friend and stepfather. Under these circumstances, the nomadic life of the family and the hostility of the dictatorship, the encounter with Alfredo, simplicity and collaboration for this work have been much encouragement for the team, and the activities that follow.

"When I think of my father ... I think of the sea ..." Alfredo told us

were in a sunny morning with Sebastian Sepulveda Valparaiso, the son of "lolo" Sepulveda Detendo Missing in September 1987. We walked the downtown streets of Valparaíso, with its colors and urban music environment to discover the memory of a revolutionary Buenos Aires was kidnapped by the FPMR vengeance in recent years of the dictatorship.

Valparaiso Sebastian Sepulveda walking while his father remembered.

Sebastian Andres Sepulveda organizing Brignardello and making the documentary.

documentary The Road to continue with interviews in the fortnight of June with Abel Vilchez and Pablo Cabezas. The latter's son Rubén Cabezas shot by the Army and landowners Quillota City in 1974.