50 years of Chilean history, but make it found footage chaos.
This documentary, made entirely of archival footage shot mainly by amateurs, revisits 50 years of Chilean history. A fascinating lesson in memory, this personal montage adopts a popular, even fringe, perspective to help write a more complete national memory. As the filmmaker asserts in her narration, there’s the history we’re told, the history we live, and the history we tell ourselves. Between the coup d’état of September 11, 1973, and the recent double failure of the new constitution project, this film shows that the people of Chile have long oscillated between excitement and disappointment, accumulating shattered hopes. Rejecting the pessimism that would trap us in collective immobility, Karin Cuyul instead draws on the past to ask how we can continue to dream of the necessary social and political changes.
Editing
Cuyul's montage weaves amateur footage into cohesive national fever dream.
Writing
Narration that questions every 'official' story you've been told.
Direction
Refuses easy pessimism—finds dreaming in the ruins.
Director
Karin Cuyul
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chile's 2023 constitution rejection was its second failed attempt in two years, making Cuyul's 'cyclical disappointment' thesis brutally current.
The film's title references a Neruda poem about future generations inheriting struggle—Cuyul asks if that inheritance is gift or burden.
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