Film Screenings

• Schedule
• Burnt Oranges
• Violeta se fue a los cielos/ Violeta is in Heaven
• Missing

• HotHouse and the Old Town School of Folk Music will screen classic films that document the 1973 Chilean coup and otherwise provide historical context for the Violeta project. The films will be presented in advance of other activities related to the project, particularly the concerts at the Old Town School of Folk Music featuring Illapu and Colombina Parra. The screenings will feature post-screening discussions with members of the Chilean and Argentinian exile community.

  Burnt Oranges
  April 11, 1:00 PM
  Jane Addams Hull House Center Museum

  Violeta se fue a las cielos (Violeta is in Heaven)
  Sunday, April 19, 1:00 PM
  Maurer Hall | Old Town School of Folk Music

  Missing
  Saturday, May 9, 1:00 PM
  Maurer Hall | Old Town School of Folk Music

• Burnt Oranges

  Date: April 11, 2015
  Time: 1pm
  Jane Addams Hull House Center Museum
  Suggested Donation $5
  Remarks by Silvia Malagrino ( Director), (and Mirtes Zwirzynski, Beatriz Badikian, Carmen Aguilar, Maria Pizarro ?)
  90 Minutes

  Burnt Oranges (2005, 90 min.) is an award-winning pioneering documentary. It is the first of its kind – created by a woman in exile from her native country, Argentina – who returns to re-map thirty years of obscured history. Through an innovative interweaving of poetic personal narrative and documentary genres, the film confronts a painful past as well as affirms the strength of human perseverance for human rights and justice.

  Director Silvia Malagrino examines the long-term effects and repercussions of Argentina's 1970s state terrorism through a combination of intimate witness narration, interviews, documentary and re-created footage. The narration is based on factual letters written by the director Silvia Malagrino and writer Monica Flores Correa, both friends who fled the country at different times.

  Revealing the current vibrating life in Buenos Aires through the eyes of a long-gone native, the film also records and uncovers compelling testimonies of resistance, transformation, and hope. Burnt Oranges reminds us of the global necessity to defend human rights and democratic values.

  Fundamental to the film are the voices of members of Argentine human rights organizations: Mothers of the Disappeared, Grandmothers of the Disappeared, Sons and Daughters of the Disappeared (HIJOS), and also governmental figures of the 1976-83 military dictatorship who explain their position. Other witnesses include Bob Cox - the former chief editor of the daily Buenos Aires Herald, and Alicia Partnoy – a poet and a survivor of torture in

• Violeta se fue a las cielos (Violeta is in Heaven)

  Date: Sunday April 19
  Time: 1pm
  Old Town School of Folk Music - Maurer Hall
  Screening followed by comments with artists (One artist from Illapu) and other community members with focus on women artists influenced by Violeta (Claudia Perez, Paulina Diaz)
  110 Minutes
  Free

  Violeta se fue a los cielos/ Violeta is in Heaven (2010, 110 min- In Spanish) recounts the fascinating life of Violeta Parra (1917-67), Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, visual artist, and mother of the New Chilean Song Movement and traces Parra’s story from her humble beginnings in rural Chile to her life as a cultural icon. Violeta Parra's revival of Chilean traditional music galvanized a socially and politically committed pan-Latin American folk music movement, the "nueva canción," and became a reference for other Latin American artists committed to their national legacies. The film features a rich soundtrack of Parra’s influential songs. The film is directed by Andrés Wood and was awarded the World Cinema Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

• Missing

  Date: Saturday May 9
  Time: 1pm
  Old Town School of Folk Music - Maurer Hall
  Screening followed by comments by: One artist from Inti-Illimani, Mrs. Horman, Angelica Anaya and someone with familiarity about recent legal developments in Chile related to the case
  Free
  Theme: Discussion of the coup and recent developments in prosecution of Horman’s attackers
  122 minutes

  Missing is a 1982 American drama film directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, It is based on the true story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody aftermath of the US-backed Chilean coup of 1973 that deposed the democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende. The film was jointly awarded the Palme d'Or (with Yol) at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.

  Set largely during the days and weeks following Horman's disappearance, the movie depicts his father and wife searching to determine his fate. The film examines the relationship between Horman's wife Beth (Spacek) and her father-in-law, American businessman Ed Horman (Lemmon).

  The film was banned in Chile during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, even though neither Chile nor Pinochet are ever mentioned by name (although the Chilean cities of Viña del Mar and Santiago are).

  Current News About The Horman Case:
  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/11/justice-charles-horman-us-chile-coup
  
  http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB366/
  2 Sentenced in Murders in Chile Coup, New York Times, 1/28/15

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