Nathancat7
Jedi Master
I don't know if this has been posted yet. I saw it on PBS in March www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/archeologyofmemory.html
There is a clip there.
The actual website is www.archeologyofmemory.org From this website is a brief synopsis.
The film is a powerful, intense, and imaginative musical journey. The film follows Bay Area Chilian exile musician Quique Cruz, from the bay area to Chile and back, as he creates his masterwork, a multimedia artpiece to heal his wounds inflicted by state sponsored torture of the Pinochet regime
Producer: Quique Cruz and Marilyn Mulford.
The documentary is horrific, but the music is deep, rich, uplifting and healing. Quique Cruz says:
"The day after my nineteenth birthday, I was detained by Pinochet's secret police and spent one month as a desparediso in the Villa Grimaldi torture center. Later I spent one long year in four different concentration camps in central Chile. In 1976, I was expelled from the country and was allowed to return safely only towards the end of the dictatorial regime in 1989. It was not until I began as a graduate program in cultural studies at Stanford University that I started to realize the nature of my past experiences as a survivor from the hands of Pinochet's special secret service. It finally dawned on me that I had been carrying around a fragmented history inside a hermetically sealed suitecase which I never really wanted to unpack. It was this last suitecase that I had brought into exile--the one that was forgotten in the corner of my memory, hidden probably because of my fear of unwanted demons."
He continues, " I feel that one of the most important contributions that I have to offer to the discussion about memory, torture, the relationship between terror and aesthetics, political violence, and survival, is to pick up the pieces and assemble the dark puzzle that is the legacy of the dictatorial period."
I've never been torture like that This is a man of incredible strength. What I got was the value gained by observing oneself objectively, and thus differentiate objectively the forces of oppression and control--then memory can be fused into the heart and mind. And it does depend on who someone is speaking to. Quique speaks directly to the Chilean people and really moves them and brought healing not from a subjective state for the aggrandizement of ego and identity/stability (pulling the strings of control), but to real crap that happened--from economic turmoil, social injustice, war, exploitation by psychopaths, to real people who care. He does this in a beautiful way, with something to say to humanity. I was truly moved by "The Archeology of Memory."
There is a clip there.
The actual website is www.archeologyofmemory.org From this website is a brief synopsis.
The film is a powerful, intense, and imaginative musical journey. The film follows Bay Area Chilian exile musician Quique Cruz, from the bay area to Chile and back, as he creates his masterwork, a multimedia artpiece to heal his wounds inflicted by state sponsored torture of the Pinochet regime
Producer: Quique Cruz and Marilyn Mulford.
The documentary is horrific, but the music is deep, rich, uplifting and healing. Quique Cruz says:
"The day after my nineteenth birthday, I was detained by Pinochet's secret police and spent one month as a desparediso in the Villa Grimaldi torture center. Later I spent one long year in four different concentration camps in central Chile. In 1976, I was expelled from the country and was allowed to return safely only towards the end of the dictatorial regime in 1989. It was not until I began as a graduate program in cultural studies at Stanford University that I started to realize the nature of my past experiences as a survivor from the hands of Pinochet's special secret service. It finally dawned on me that I had been carrying around a fragmented history inside a hermetically sealed suitecase which I never really wanted to unpack. It was this last suitecase that I had brought into exile--the one that was forgotten in the corner of my memory, hidden probably because of my fear of unwanted demons."
He continues, " I feel that one of the most important contributions that I have to offer to the discussion about memory, torture, the relationship between terror and aesthetics, political violence, and survival, is to pick up the pieces and assemble the dark puzzle that is the legacy of the dictatorial period."
I've never been torture like that This is a man of incredible strength. What I got was the value gained by observing oneself objectively, and thus differentiate objectively the forces of oppression and control--then memory can be fused into the heart and mind. And it does depend on who someone is speaking to. Quique speaks directly to the Chilean people and really moves them and brought healing not from a subjective state for the aggrandizement of ego and identity/stability (pulling the strings of control), but to real crap that happened--from economic turmoil, social injustice, war, exploitation by psychopaths, to real people who care. He does this in a beautiful way, with something to say to humanity. I was truly moved by "The Archeology of Memory."
