Events

    2024 Feb 05

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: It is night in America (É Noite na América)

    7:00pm to 8:05pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    In the opening shot of Ana Vaz’s feature debut, an intense blue descends upon the sprawling, modernist metropolis of Brasília, which starts spinning out of control as a symphony of wild animal sounds crescendos. It is night in America. A recognition, an alarm, an investigation, a lament…Vaz’s film sounds every one of these notes and then some, within rather subtle boundaries, such as the limited exposure and contrast range of an expired 16mm film stock, along with “day for night” shooting techniques that fabricate a permanent twilight. Through patient and attentive observation, Vaz...

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    2024 Feb 04

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: Ana Vaz Short Films

    7:00pm to 8:15pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    The screenings are part of the Harvard Film Archive Film Series EXCAVATING SUBTERRANEA. THE FILM POEMS OF ANA VAZ

    Apiyemiyekî? Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/France/Portugal/Netherlands, 2019, DCP, color and b&w, 27 min. DCP source: Lightcone

    Amazing Fantasy. Directed by Ana Vaz. France/Japan, 2018, DCP, color, 3 min. DCP source: Lightcone

    There Is Land! (Há terra!). Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/France, 2016, DCP, color, 13 min. Portuguese with English subtitles. DCP source: Lightcone

    Atomic Garden. Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/Portugal, 2018,...

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    2023 Sep 25

    The Chinese Shoe (El zapato chino)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Cristián Sánchez
    With Felisa González, Andrés Quintana, Fernando Andía
    Chile, 1979, DCP, black & white, 72 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Cineteca Nacional de Chile

    Shot clandestinely on a shoestring budget, the second feature by prolific filmmaker and theorist Cristián Sánchez bears an uncanny, yet ultimately only vague, resemblance to Taxi Driver (1976) with its story of a cabbie who spontaneously rescues a young woman from a brothel only to develop an obsessive yet platonic love for her. By keeping all violence and...

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    2023 Sep 22

    One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Cien niños esperando un tren)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Speaker: Ignacio Agüero, Filmmaker
    Moderated by: Haden Guest, Director, Harvard film Archive

    Director in Person
    $15 Special Event Tickets
    Directed by Ignacio Agüero
    Chile/UK, 1988, DCP, color and b&w, 55 min
    Spanish with English subtitles 
    DCP source: Filmmaker

    Agüero’s remarkable documentary begins as a tender portrait of influential film historian, educator and activist Alicia Vega (b.1931) teaching a workshop on early film history to impoverished youth living on the outskirts of Santiago....

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    2023 Sep 11

    The Battle of Chile, Part Three: The Power of the People (La Batalla de Chile: El poder popular)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán
    Chile/Cuba/France, 1978, DCP, black & white, 79 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Icarus Films

    Completed a couple of years after the first and second parts, The Power of the People offers an important coda to Guzmán’s epic documentary by turning away from the forces who opposed Allende and instead examining the loose coalition of workers and citizens who attempted to save Allende’s visionary politics. A stirring testimony to the grassroots power of Allende’s movement and its singular appeal to the working class,...

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    2023 Sep 10

    The Battle of Chile, Part Two: The Coup d’État (La Batalla de Chile: El golpe de estado)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán
    Chile/Cuba/France, 1976, DCP, black & white, 88 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Icarus Films

    The second part of The Battle of Chile begins with the Chilean military’s first attempted coup in June 1973 and tracks the steady deterioration of Allende’s position across the months leading up to September 11. Focusing on Allende’s attempts to stave off the splintering of his party from within, The Coup d’État captures the frightening escalation of violence that began in the streets and climaxed in the fatal...

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    2023 Sep 09

    The Battle of Chile, Part One: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (La Batalla de Chile: La Insurrección de la Burguesía)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán 
    Chile/Cuba/France, 1975, DCP, black & white, 96 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Icarus FIlms

    The Battle of Chile began as a boldly spontaneous attempt to comprehensively document Allende’s truly revolutionary experiment in social justice in its formative stages. Using film stock provided by Chris Marker, a thirty-one-year-old Guzmán, fresh out of film school in Madrid, led a team of cameramen into the streets of Santiago and outlying towns to capture the different sides forming staunchly for and...

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    2023 Apr 17

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror by Raul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento
    With Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón. Chile, 1967/2020, DCP, black & white, 70 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

    Raúl Ruiz (1941 - 2011) is a filmmaker often heralded for prolific filmography, with his entire body of work still a mystery. His partner Valeria Sarmiento was his film editor and most frequent collaborator. After Ruiz’s passing, Sarmiento has been recuperating and giving new life to Ruiz’s films that were deemed lost, unfinished, or both. This program is centered on this newfound form of curatorship...

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    2023 Mar 27

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening: Diaries by Andres Di Tella

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Speaker: Andrés Di Tella, Filmmaker and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Ignacio Azcueta, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    The diary has that rare virtue of never quite being a “work” but, rather, always, a work in process. One writes it every day, without any correction, without knowing fully why, with no other objective than to capture something of the flow of life, the feeling of the moment. In the same way, my project Diaries (Argentina, 2022...

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    2023 Mar 24

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening: Photographs by Andrés Di Tella

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Speaker: Andrés Di Tella, Filmmaker and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Ignacio Azcueta, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    Photographs (Directed by Andrés Di Tella. Argentina, 2007, DCP, color, 110 min. Spanish with English subtitles.) is the second installment of Andrés Di Tella’s “family trilogy,” a series of subjective documentaries centered on his family. Split between a first part in Argentina and a second part in India, the film functions...

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    2023 Mar 06

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening : Play by Alicia Scherson

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Alicia Scherson
    With Viviana Herrera, Andres Ulloa, Aline Küppenheim. Argentina/Chile , 2005, DCP, color, 104 min. Spanish and Mapudungun with English subtitles.

    Filmed in a hybrid technological style, Alicia Scherson’s dramedy makes use of computers, headphones and video games to bring to life the story of Cristina, a young indigenous woman navigating early-aughts Santiago. A caretaker for an elderly white man, she becomes interested in Tristán, a young worker, but can they make their chemistry work given the social boundaries that separate them? As her journey...

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    2023 Mar 03

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: Little White Dove by Raul Ruiz

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Raúl Ruiz
    With Beatrice Lapido, Rodrigo Ureta, Luis Alarcón. Chile, 1992, DCP, color, 125 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

    In 1973 Raúl Ruiz was invited by then-fledgling national film company Chilefilms to direct the biggest-budgeted Chilean feature to date, an adaptation of the best-selling eponymous novel by Enrique Lafourcade. Palomita blanca is a coming-of-age story of a young girl from a poor background who falls in love with the scion of a wealthy upper-class family. From the novel Ruiz maintained only its formulaic fairytale plot and detailed...

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    2022 Dec 14

    Cóctel, Proyección y Conversación: El Charles Bronson Chileno

    8:00pm to 11:00pm

    Location: 

    Centre de Cine y Creación (CCC) Raulí 581, Santiago, Chile

    Para registrarse a este evento, click acá.

    Speakers: Carlos Flores, Director de Cine; Dominga Sotomayor, Directora CCC y Profesora Visitante de Art Film and Visual studies, Harvard University; Haden Guest, Director, Harvard Film Archive

    Proyección especial de la película El...

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    2022 Dec 02

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening: EAMI

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Speaker: Paz Encina, Filmmaker and 2022-23 Radcliffe/Film Study Center Fellow

    AEMI is Directed by Paz Encina | Paraguay/Argentina/Mexico/Germany/Netherlands/France/US, 2022, DCP, color, 75 min. Ayoreo, Guaraní and Spanish with English subtitles.

    Encina’s latest film EAMI is a moving and sensitive portrait of the indigenous Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, among the last tribes living in isolation in the Amazon but now threatened by rampant and illegal deforestation of their ancestral lands. Encina will be joined in conversation with AFVS Visiting...

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    2022 Sep 23

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening : CASA ROSHELL

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    CASA ROSHELL is Directed by Camila José Donoso | Mexico/Chile, 2017| digital video, color, 71 min | Spanish with English subtitles.

    During a trip to Mexico in 2014, after making Naomi Cambel (2013), the director Camila José Donoso learned about Club Roshell: a private site founded by the trans artist and activist Roshell Terranova in 2004, populated by men looking for somewhere they can assume an alternative gender role and explore their identity. Over six weeks, the filmmaker visited the club, observing, talking to, and generating dialogue with its members, and finally...

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    2022 Apr 06

    DRCLAS Film Series | Dance of the Forty One by David Pablos

    5:00pm to 6:00pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speaker: David Pablos, Filmmaker
    Moderated by: Laura Pérez Muñoz & Adri Rodríguez Ríos, PhD Candidates in Romance Languages and Literatures (Latinx & Spanish Track), Harvard University

    A conversation with filmmaker David Pablos on the film Dance of the Forty One (2020). This event is part of the DRCLAS Film Series Are we there yet? A Film Series...

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    2022 Mar 09

    DRCLAS Film Series: Sand Dollars by Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas

    5:00pm to 6:00pm


    For a recording of this event, please click here.

    Speakers: Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas, filmmakers
    Moderated by: Laura Pérez Muñoz & Adri Rodríguez Ríos, PhD Candidates in Romance Languages and Literatures (Latinx & Spanish Track), Harvard University

    A conversation with filmmakers Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas on the film Sand Dollars (2014). The...

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    2022 Mar 08

    “Desire Machine - 60 years of Teatro Oficina”: Film Screening and Discussion Panel

    5:30pm to 7:00pm


    This event is virtual and will be held in both English and Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation. To register, click here.

    Speakers: Marília Gallmeister, Scenic Architect and member of Teatro Oficina since 2011; Lucas Weglinski, Actor and Filmmaker, one of the two directors of “Desire Machine”; Patricio del Real, Associate Professor at...

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    2021 Dec 01

    DRCLAS Film Series | A Fantastic Woman by Sebastián Lelio

    5:00pm to 6:00pm


    For a recording of this event, please click here.

    Speaker: Sebastián Lelio, Filmmaker
    Moderated by: Jorge Sánchez Cruz,  Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvard University and Adri Rodríguez Ríos, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    A conversation with filmmaker Sebastián Lelio on the film A Fantastic Woman. The movie will be offered for free through...

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