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    Retrato Oficial (Official Portrait)

    • 2003
    • 00h 01m 00s
    • Francisca Duran
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    Synopsis

    After declared unfit to stand trial in England, former dictator Augusto Pinochet stands up out of his wheelchair and greets supporters.

    Categories

    • Documentary,
    • Activism + Protest,
    • Experimental,
    • History,
    • Multiculturalism,
    • Politics + Policy,
    • Works by Women

    Shooting Format

    • 16 mm,
    • Found Footage

    Languages

    • English

    Additional Details

    • Silent,
    • Black & White

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Central Canada

    Screening Formats

    • DVD,
    • 16 mm,
    • MiniDV

    Credits

    • Director: Francisca Duran

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    More By Francisca Duran

    Retrato Oficial (Official Portrait) (2009)

    • 2009
    • Francisca Duran

    “Retrato Oficial” animates the dissimulation and reconstruction of the great liberator of Chile, 19th-century revolutionary and republican Bernardo O’Higgins, and the historical reach of the late-20th-century dictator Augusto Pinochet.

    Retrato Oficial (Official Portrait) (2009)

    Boy

    • 2005
    • Francisca Duran

    The visual poetics of Vancouver are brought to light as the filmmaker reflects on the cities she has lived in, motherhood and the birth of her first son.

    Boy

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    • 2004
    • Francisca Duran

    Part two of the artist’s trilogy exploring the depiction of sexuality in teen films of the 1980s, in which a scene from “Valley Girl” is re-worked.

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