Strategies for (Not) Forgetting: Notes on Two Chilean Documentary Films of the Post-Dictatorship
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The return to democracy saw a growing number of documentary fi lms interested in keeping the memory of the dictatorship alive. Although traditionally characterised by their commitment to social issues, recent documentaries shifted to narratives centered on the private sphere.Through autobiographical stories, fi lmmakers of the post-dictatorship generation have developed new expressive ways to refer to this cultural trauma. This article focuses ontwo recent fi lms –Postage: A Visual Letter (2008) and The Burn (2009)– to explore the different strategies that fi lmmakers adopt to merge their personal refl ections on memory and identity with the collective experience of the dictatorship. Although not precisely ‘second generation’ accounts, they will be understood as ‘postmemory’ narrations that critically address the recent past and exhibit its remnants today.
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