I just watched your brilliant and moving “Memoria Desierta” … and will show it later this week to Adam Policzer - a former prisoner at Chacabuco, who lives here in Vancouver. I will write to you about Adam’s and his friends’ reactions - which will be somewhat like Rolando Carrasco’s and Santiago Cavieres’. A smile; a tear.

Certainly Roberto Saldivar and Pedro Barreda must be delighted and moved by the fact that their great life’s-work has been recorded and circulated with such feeling - and art. The artistry of the whole production - with brilliant views through doorways and windows - is remarkable. The colours, the textures, the silence, the traces of other times … all amplify a brilliant production. Congratulations.

And thank you …

Tom Routledge
Vancouver, BC
Canada