Nostalgia For The Light
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Sun 22 July 2012 // 20:00
Tue 24 July 2012 // 20:00
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(Sun 22nd, Tue 24th / 8pm / £5/4/3 TTT)
(Patricio Guzman / 2010 / France/Spain/Chile / 90 minutes / subtitled / cert: tba)
The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the best places in the world to conduct astronomical observations. As a result, the world's leading astronomers flock there to gaze out into the universe and to search for evidence and artefacts from the Big Bang. These "archaeologists of time" decompose the stars into their constituent elements one of which is calcium.
Elsewhere in the desert, other "archaeologists" search among the sand for evidence of calcium in another form. They are the families of Chile's
disappeared. During Pinochet's military dictatorship many thousands of Chileans were abducted and killed and their bodies disposed of in the desert. Forty years later their relatives still search for bone fragments that might give a clue to where their loved ones lie. Patricio Guzman juxtaposes these two sets of archaeologists in his beautiful documentary.
(Patricio Guzman / 2010 / France/Spain/Chile / 90 minutes / subtitled / cert: tba)
The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the best places in the world to conduct astronomical observations. As a result, the world's leading astronomers flock there to gaze out into the universe and to search for evidence and artefacts from the Big Bang. These "archaeologists of time" decompose the stars into their constituent elements one of which is calcium.
Elsewhere in the desert, other "archaeologists" search among the sand for evidence of calcium in another form. They are the families of Chile's
disappeared. During Pinochet's military dictatorship many thousands of Chileans were abducted and killed and their bodies disposed of in the desert. Forty years later their relatives still search for bone fragments that might give a clue to where their loved ones lie. Patricio Guzman juxtaposes these two sets of archaeologists in his beautiful documentary.