Retrato Oficial 2 | Official Portrait 2

Film Maker
Duran, Francisca
Year
2009
Country
Canada
Language
Format
Digital
Length
4
Genre
Animation, documentary, experimental
Category
found footage, history, Politics + Policy, Race + Ethnicity, Work by Women

Retrato Oficial 2 | Official Portrait 2 animates the dissimulation and reconstruction of the great liberator of Chile, 19th-century revolutionary and republican Bernardo O’Higgins, and the historical reach of the late-20th-century dictator Augusto Pinochet. Based in part on a conceit borrowed from Raul Ruiz’s essay Images of Images and original footage shot by Patricio Guzman on September 11, 1973, the short video is an exploration of the mediated image and the mnemonic possibilities of video and still image technologies.

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