It was not depression, it was capitalism, directed by actress and filmmaker Chamila Rodríguez and co-directed by filmmaker and mountaineer Galut Alarcón, with text by writer and actress Nona Fernández, inspired by phrases of posters and street scratches, opens at the 27th Valdivia International Film Festival as part of the section: Resistance Film, Video and Social Outburst.
The public will be able to view it from this Friday, October 9 from 10 hours, free of charge and online on the playficvaldivia.cl
Artistic, political and social work, It was attended by more than 60 national artists from various areas of culture, such as Claudia Di Girólamo, Oscar Hernández, Shenda Román, Nestor Cantillana, Mariana Loyola, Daniel Muñoz, María Paz Grandjean, Julio Milostich, Daniela Ramírez, Ignacio Achurra, Amparo Noguera, Gastón Salgado, Gabriela Arancibia, Paola Lattus, among others.
The artistic collective, of more than sixty people, consists of students, leaders and socio-environmental defenders of the countryside and the city, representatives of original cultures, actresses, actors, film workers and the different performing arts.
Credit: Pepe Guzmán
Written on the walls
The short film aims to interpret from art the social awakening that has been deployed throughout the territory of Chile, which has been characterized by contrasts and contradictions, but which aims solely to put the people of Chile back in their role as the great sovereign of politics, the economy, the environment, the original peoples, health, education, and other factors that directly affect a way of rethlying the fundamentals of the relationship of citizens with power.
For its director Chamila Rodríguez, “past and present impunity hurt, they do not allow to heal wounds, losses, disappearances, torture, murders… Exiles. The repeated violations of HRDs by the State of Chile, it is urgent to demand that they be arrested, for our children and memory, for the long awaited, justice… for our dear people. We will win the Plebiscite, the main reason: because we no longer bear this constitution articulated by Pinochet’s criminal dictatorship. Our students woke us up again and again before October 18, 2019, from years of nightmares. Today, the streets are ours again, the walls and banners are filled with words of colors, phrases, art, screams and hope. Our students gave us the strength to continue resisting and fighting until we won, because it will be beautiful to live in a more supportive, loving and dignified Chile.”
Credit: Pepe Guzmán
For her part, actress Shenda Román states: “I have been especially moved by people’s need to give their opinions in any way so as not to be excluded from the indispensable political change in our Homeland. Action ‘It was not depression was capitalism’ is very important because of the human quality of many people and its obvious and necessary political definition; allowing us to be very useful to this need to belong to the communication of our aspirations to more than 60 actors/actresses, plus a group of technical artists who perform together with us, the best of their professions. The piece is a huge work in which with great joy we put at your service for our principles and for the Fatherland.”
The actor Oscar Hernández emphasizes that: “This artistic initiative brings together a beautiful variety of artists, plus the sensibility of the creators and their production team. Talking about these issues today is a must. Inequality, abuse, repression, issues of privatized water, climate change, must be internalized by the immense diversity of Chileans to assume cultural and political responsibility to change this state of things that how it always hits most citizens, especially the poorest in Chile!”
Audiovisual artifacts
It was not depression, capitalism included in its contents a series of texts, photographs and a set of eight audiovisual artifacts that have been released every Friday, in a post week by week since www.noeradepresioneracapitalismo.com and now end with the premiere of the short film in FICVALDIVIA.
The pieces capture some of the citizen demands expressed in the streets since and before the October social revolution.
Information
DATE: Friday, October 9
TIME: from 10 a.m.
PLATFORM: https://www.playficvaldivia.cl
ACCESS: free
PARTICIPANT: Claudia Di Girólamo, Oscar Hernández, Shenda Román, Néstor Cantillana, Mariana Loyola, Daniel Muñoz, María Paz Grandjean, Julio Milostich, Daniela Ramírez, Ignacio Achurra, Amparo Noguera, Gastón Salgado, Gabriela Arancibia, Paola Lattus, among other.
