SURIRE
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Surire, directed by Iván Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut (Chile, 2015), shown on January 28, 2020. This documentary set in the salt flats of Surire, Chile, follows an Aymara community and portrays a landscape defined by industrial extraction and the surviving environment of the area. The panel discussion was led by Jens Andermann, Professor of contemporary Latin American cultural studies at New York University, and Carl Fischer, Associate Professor of Spanish at Fordham University.
On December 15, 2020, a virtual discussion organized by volunteer Mark Boffa was held via Zoom, in which Professors Andermann and Fischer were joined by the filmmakers. The discussion began in English with an introduction by Mark, but was conducted primarily in Spanish. The discussion was recorded as a video in which English subtitles of the portions in Spanish have been inserted.
The participants discussed the inspiration for Surire, the filmmakers’ approach to filming it and another film they made called Los Reyes, which is centered on two dogs that play in and around a skateboarding park in Santiago, Chile. They touch on the issue of widespread social protests in Santiago in 2020, and they contrast their approach with those of other documentary filmmakers.
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For further information on Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff, click on the following links:
Surire Interview (in Spanish, use settings to set English auto-translated subtitles)
For further information on the Surire Salt Flats, click on the following links:
Report on the salars of Northern Chile
For further information on the Aymara community, click on the following links:
Jens Andermann
Jens Andermann is a current professor at New York University. He writes about modern Latin American arts, film, literature, architecture and material culture, and their intersections with extractivism and the legacies of coloniality. He is an editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and has authored a number of books and edited collections on environmental aesthetics in the present, memory and the museum in Latin American postdictatorships, and contemporary Latin American cinemas, among other topics. Andermann has also designed and curated online exhibitions at the Iberoamerican Museum of Visual Culture on the Web, and his work has appeared in numerous edited collections and journals, including Memory Studies and Cinema Journal.
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Carl Fischer
Carl Fischer is a current professor at Fordham University. He specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American film, visual culture, and literature, as well as gender and sexuality studies. He is currently working on a new research project on the aesthetics of authoritarianism in Latin America's Southern Cone region. Chilean Film in the Twenty-First Century World, a book he co-edited with Vania Barraza, is forthcoming in 2020. Fischer’s other research interests include popular culture, translation studies, and queer theory. Before studying for his PhD, he spent several years working as a translator for the Chilean government.
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