Synopsis
In the 1980s, the AFI photographers, the Association of Independent Photographers, tirelessly documented the horrors of Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile and the resistance it gave rise to. While telling their stories through meticulous investigation, this documentary is also an essential reflection on the role played by photography during these years of dirty war on many levels. Both evidence and a weapon against the regime, whose influence can be measured by the censorship it suffered, photography also contributed to the construction of a collective memory. And while these photographers risked their lives to document this terrible period in Chile's history, they are now talking about the ethical issues raised by their practice and a need to distance themselves from the sometimes fatal thirst for adrenalin that drove them.
What you will find in this film
Pinochet's dirty war in the lens • the Association of Independent Photographers of Chile • photography as evidence • photography as a weapon of resistance • photographing violence • getting round censorship • a visual archive of the disappeared • building a collective memory • the adrenalin of the photographer
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THE INSUBORDINATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY : DOCUMENTARY PRACTICES UNDER CHILE'S DICTATORSHIP ; Ángeles Donoso Macaya ; University Press of Florida ; 2020
ON PHOTOGRAPHY ; Susan Sontag ; Penguin Books ; 2010 (ENG)
