Ciclo 50 años: País invisible

Wednesday November 8, 1:00 PM (*note change in time due to end Summer saving) 

Invisible Country (2014) by Anthony Rauld (96 min). Spanish with English subtitles.  

**1:00-2:30 PM Film, 2:45-4:00PM discussion (California time)  

**time change in Calif. end summer saving -1hr https://csulb.zoom.us/j/87432265868 

The Invisible Country (2014). Dir. Anthony Rauld. 

Teleanálisis arose after ten years of fear and silence, in which the Chilean people began to take to the streets to protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. This is when a group of journalists from Análisis magazine, with the help of a technician and an audiovisual critic, decided to develop an alternative medium in video format U-Matic, to create a record of the social movement in the streets and thus be able to clandestinely show what the official media -linked to the dictatorship- did not show. 

Anthony Rauld 

Anthony Rauld is a Chilean-American visual anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University and an adjunct professor in the linguistics department at the University of Chile, where he teaches classes on American, British, and American culture, literature, and history. Chilean. At the same university, he coordinates the American Cultural Studies extension diploma in the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities. As an audiovisual creator, Anthony Rauld has made historical/anthropological documentaries, including the production País Invisible (Museo de la Memoria y Derechos Humanos collection), on audiovisual journalism during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, the production La Negra, an ethnographic portrait of a community in Alto Hospicio, and the production Wixage Anai (Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art collection, in collaboration with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies), about a Mapuche radio program in Santiago. 

Special guests 

Pablo Salas 

Is a Photographer, Documentary producer and director. In 1980 he began to work at Teatro Ictus’s audiovisual production company as editor between 1981 and 1984. He worked as a cameraman and documentary maker for the news program Teleanalysis, an essential information medium in the years of the dictatorship. Because of his courage to face the riskiest situations with the camera, and the quality of the resulting work, he has become the cameraman par excellence of street confrontations between the police force and the opponents. He produced films commissioned by RAI (Italy), TVE (Spain), ARD (Germany) and television channels in Australia, Austria and the United States. Many of the archives of his filming between 1983 and 1990 have been used in sequences of various films and in newsreels and documentaries on numerous Chilean and foreign television stations. In 2003,  the Audiovisual Platform, awarded him Public Recognition Achievement Award for his Career.  

Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto 

She is Assistant Professor at Fordham University. Her research focuses on feminist film history, transnational film and media practices, and documentary. She is the author of (Un)veiling Bodies: A Trajectory of Chilean Post-Dictatorship Documentary (2019) and the coeditor of Nomadías: El cine de Marilú Mallet, Valeria Sarmiento y Angelina Vázquez (2016). Her work has appeared in journals like Feminist Media Histories, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and [in]Transition as well as numerous edited collections. She is co-founder of the Latin American Women’s Audiovisual Research Network, RAMA. 

Patricia Collyer 

She is a Chilean journalist and Psychologist. Between 1978 and 1980, she worked as a clinical psychologist in Chile and La Paz, Bolivia. Between 1981 and 1990, she worked in mass media as a Human Rights reporter and photographer at Revista Análisis. She also worked in El Mercurio, Radio Cooperativa, and Hoy magazine, and 1984, she was the founder of Cauce magazine, where she worked as a reporter and photographer. She was a journalist for the alternative news program Teleanálisis, and since 1990, she has worked as a press and communications advisor in various ministries and public services. She was elected Council member of the Metropolitan Council of the Chilean Journalist Association (2005-2006) and later elected National Councilor (2008). 

Yerko Yankovic 

He is a film producer, cameraman, film editor, and visual artist. He has a BA in Art from the Catholic University of Chile. He has worked as an Assistant cameraman and Cameraman (Teleanalysis), Editor, and Director of TV (MEGA) and video clips (Los Prisioneros, Nadie, UPA). Currently, he is dedicated to Post-production, Motion graphics, and Audiovisual Production.  Yankovic has been recognized for his work as a cameraman for Teleanalysis, a clandestine news production project developed during the dictatorship in Chile. 

A Scholarly intersection Event and a collaboration of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Chile and the Latin American Studies Program at CSULB.