Talk with Chilean Screenwriter Roberto Brodsky
Uses and Abuses of Memory in Recent Chilean Cinema
Thursday, April 14, 2016 · 7 - 8 PM
In-Person
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Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 132
Roberto Brodsky's co-written films screened in the MLLI Spring 2016 Film Festival: Machuca and My Life with Carlos.
Mr. Brodsky will speak on the uses and abuses of memory in recent Chilean cinema, focusing on a recent documentary that he co-wrote, My Life with Carlos (Berger 2010). The film is autobiographical in its dealing with a son’s experience of the disappearance of his activist father, Carlos Berger, during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.
Mr. Brodsky will also take into account the documentary’s contemporaries that engage with the memory of Pinochet’s coup and dictatorship: his co-written screenplay for the award-winning Machuca (Wood 2004) and Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light (2010).
Light refreshments will follow.
Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, and the Program in Global Studies.