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Saturday, February 29, 2020, 9:00pm - 10:30pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/nostalgia-for-the-light-2020-02

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Film Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film
Archive Cost: $9 - Regular Admission $7 - Non-Harvard Students,
Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens. Free for Harvard
students Contact Info: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu Link:
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/nostalgia-for-the-light-2020-02
In order to return once more to the troubled history of the Pinochet
dictatorship, Guzmán's film travels to Chile's remote Atacama Desert,
whose unusual conditions give the world's largest telescopes
privileged access to the stars and their cosmic secrets. One of the
driest places on the planet, the Atacama also preserves almost
anything buried in its sand—including ancient indigenous remains and,
more recently, the fragments of victims' bodies scattered there by
Pinochet's death squads. A work of rare poetry and emotional power,
Nostalgia for the Light carefully interweaves the profoundly
insightful musings of astronomers and archaeologists who have made the
desert their home with the testimony of a resolute group of widows who
wander the desert, fueled by the hope of finding even a fragment of an
executed loved one's remains. In this place where the past—be it the
ancient world, the historic past or the unfathomable distance of the
galaxies—all seem incredibly alive and close, Guzmán crafts a
brilliant meditation on the strange tenacity and paradoxical fragility
of memory and history.

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Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 21:00 to 22:30

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