Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Cautiva and Los Desaparecidos



Alex and I went to see Cautiva tonight, an Argentine film dealing with the children of people disappeared by Argentina's last dictatorship, notably American supported. The film starts off slowly and quickly becomes an examination of how identity can be erased and then revealed through historical examination. One of my favorite video collectives, Grupo Alavio has spent time making movies about the protests against those people complicit in the disappearances. According to Cautiva, over 30,000 people were disappeared by the US backed dictatorship. For those of you who speak Spanish, many of their videos can be found on the pan-Latin American radical Internet television station, AgoraTV.

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