[van-announce] 9/11: reclaiming history and resistance (Vancouver)

[harsha at resist.ca]

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THURSDAY SEP 8 2005 @ 6:30 PM
ROOM 2270, SFU HARBOUR CENTER

6:30 PM: 11'09''01
7:30 PM: Chile: Obstinate Memory

by donation. suggested 4$ for one film, 6$ for both films.
Part of Envisioning Peoples Struggles.  778-552-2099 or eps2005 at resist.ca



11'09''01 - SEPTEMBER 11
11 directors, 11 stories, 1 film

This film is a unique and extraordinary response to the catastrophic
events in New York city that shook the world on September 11, 2001.
Producer Alaiin Brigand invited 11 renowned international directors
(Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch, Youseff Chahine, Danis Tanovic,
Idrissa Ouedraogo, Ken Loach, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Amos Gitai,
Mira Nair, Sean Penn, Shohei Imamura) to look towards their own cultures,
their own memories, their own stories and their own language, and create a
film lasting eleven minutes, nine seconds and one frame - 11'09"01 -
around September 11 and its consequences.

We will be screening 5 of these films.


CHILE: OBSTINATE MEMORY
By Patricio Guzmán, 52 minutes, Spanish with English Subtitles
“Pure in focus and vigorous in attack, this fifty-eight-minute documentary
achieves poetic intensity with a spare, unmannered style.”- Review by The
New Yorker

Patricio Guzmán's landmark film The Battle of Chile documented the Popular
Unity period of Allende's government, the tumultuous events leading up to
the US-backed coup in Chile on September 11, 1973, and Allende's death.
But the memory of those times and events was largely barred from the
collective consciousness of the Chilean people. In “Chile Obstinate
Memory”, he returns to Chile to explore the terrain of the confiscated
memories of the Chilean people- from those with first-hand experience of
the coup to those too young to remember. The film combines heartbreaking
reminiscences and provocative confrontations in the rebirth of collective
memory of September 11 in Chile.

* Film introduced by CARMEN RODRIGUEZ. Carmen Rodríguez is a Chilean-born
writer, journalist and educator who came to Canada in political exile
following the Augusto Pinochet military coup of September 11, 1973. Her
poetry, short stories, articles and essays have been published in numerous
periodicals and anthologies. A bilingual collection of her poetry, Guerra
Prolongada/Protracted War, was published by Women's Press (Toronto) in
1992. A collection of short stories, And A Body to Remember With, was
awarded an Honorary Mention of the City of Santiago Literary Awards and
was a finalist for the Vancouver Book Award in 1998. Both her poetry and
stories include experiences and issues related to political activism,
immigration and exile, memory and resistance. Currently, she teaches in
the Latin American Studies Program of Simon Fraser University and is the
Vancouver correspondent for the Spanish Section of Radio Canada
International.