The Chacabuco Project

Memoria Desierta

(Deserted Memory)

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5 minutes subtitled into English of Memoria Desierta.

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The Chacabuco Project was created as a means of producing and distributing the documentary Memoria Desierta on the desert ghost town and concentration camp, Chacabuco.

Circled by lost landmines and abandoned in the driest desert on earth, the Atacama of northern Chile, Chacabuco is home to one man who has chosen to live there alone. This lone guardian has dedicated himself to re-telling the ghost town’s history as a nitrate mine and Pinochet-era concentration camp.

Memoria Desierta uses the crumbling ruins of Chacabuco to explore Chile’s buried collective memory. The film features two ex-political prisoners who re-encounter the former concentration camp for the first time in 30 years as well as the town’s original guardian who now suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, despite his years of struggle for public remembrance of Chacabuco.

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The documentary premeried at the Desert Nights International Film Festival in Rome, Italy on December 1, 2006. See catalogue details. For more information on screenings visit the Film Festivals and Screenings page.

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