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Nostalgia for the light [videorecording] = Nostalgia de la luz / Atacama Productions presenta ; una coprodución, Atacama Productions (Francia), Blinker Filmproduktion y WDR (Alemania), Cronomedia (Chile) ; un filme de Patricio Guzmán ; producido por Renate Sachse ; guión y dirección, Patricio Guzmán.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: Spanish Original language: Spanish Publication details: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Icarus Films Home Video, 2010.Description: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Nostalgia de la luz
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Bonus films: Chile, una galaxia de problemas = Chile, a galaxy of problems (32 min.) -- Oscar Saa, el técnico de las estrellas = Oscar Saa, technician of the stars (10 min.) -- José Maza, el viajero del cielo = José Maza, sky traveler (13 min.) -- María Teresa y la enana marrón = María Teresa & the brown dwarf (12 min.) -- Astrónomos de mi barrio = Astronomers from my neighborhood (14 min.)
Production credits:
  • Photography, Katell Djian ; editors, Patricio Guzmán, Emmanuelle Joly ; music, Miranda y Tobar.
Summary: Guzman travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert. There astronomers from all over the world gather atop the mountains to observe the stars and the sky is so translucent, allowing them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is also the place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, "disappeared" by the Chilean army after the military coup of September, 1973. So while astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women, surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here, search, even after twenty-five years, for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families' histories.
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Originally released as a motion picture in 2010.

Bonus films: Chile, una galaxia de problemas = Chile, a galaxy of problems (32 min.) -- Oscar Saa, el técnico de las estrellas = Oscar Saa, technician of the stars (10 min.) -- José Maza, el viajero del cielo = José Maza, sky traveler (13 min.) -- María Teresa y la enana marrón = María Teresa & the brown dwarf (12 min.) -- Astrónomos de mi barrio = Astronomers from my neighborhood (14 min.)

Photography, Katell Djian ; editors, Patricio Guzmán, Emmanuelle Joly ; music, Miranda y Tobar.

Guzman travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert. There astronomers from all over the world gather atop the mountains to observe the stars and the sky is so translucent, allowing them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is also the place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, "disappeared" by the Chilean army after the military coup of September, 1973. So while astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women, surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here, search, even after twenty-five years, for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families' histories.

DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby digital 2.0.

In Spanish with English subtitles.

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