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The other utopianism in early Chilean cinema: La agonía de Arauco o el olvido de los muertos by Gabriela Bussenius

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  • Ríos, MR.
No. 29 (2020): Diciembre

Abstract

This article analyzes the work of the first Chilean filmmaker, Gabriela Bussenius, whose film The Agony of Arauco or the Oblivion of the Dead laid the foundations for the local film industry. In 1917, film technology was still experimental and not yet colonized by nationalist, white and Eurocentric elites. I propose that La agonía de Arauco created a space for aesthetic practices that reconfigured the social, economic and gender vectors naturalized in the rest of society. This other utopianism produced another aesthetic for artistic creation, which included affective and political solidarity among minority groups. La agonía de Arauco provided a materiality to the counter-stories. I analyze this film as an event in dialogue with the Poema de Chile by Gabriela Mistral, and which in itself constitutes a “spectral archive”, a collection of stories that indicate the silences of institutional history, which is accessed through the discontinuities of the archive regime.

Keywords:

Gabriela Bussenius, Cine temprano chileno, Directoras, Pioneras, Feminismo, Utopismo, Archivo espectral, Chilean early cinema, Female directors, Pioneers, Feminism, Utopianism, Spectral archive

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MR., R. (2021). The other utopianism in early Chilean cinema: La agonía de Arauco o el olvido de los muertos by Gabriela Bussenius. Nomadías, (29), 115–136. Retrieved from https://revistaestudiosarabes.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/61056
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