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Yesterday's Dreams
Rodrigo Ortuzar
1989
Color
30 minutes
Chile

Yesterday's Dreams

Sueños de ayer
Like a Frida Kahlo painting, this hauntingly lyrical film is full of symbolism at once extremely personal and universal. A young woman in a large, empty house in the countryside attempts to re-envision her childhood. Her journey grows increasingly surreal as she witnesses her conception, gestation and birth and replays disjointed memories of a traumatic, painful violation. Pastel, impressionistic color sequences mixed with black and white footage and a powerfully subtle sound track create a metaphor for Chile's collective memory of its painful past.
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"...a somnambulant meditation on Chile's suffering flooded with images..." - Ed Morales, THE VILLAGE VOICE
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