Spotlight: The Eternal Memory

About this event

Presented in collaboration with Cinema Mentiré. Sunday's screening will have a live introduction from Vladimir Rosas-Salazar. This film is part of our season celebrating the films of Chilean director Maite Alberdi, running from July to September. You can find the other films in the season and information about our wider year-long season spotlighting international female filmmakers, here. Augusto Góngora, a veteran Chilean journalist and prominent chronicler of the crimes of the Pinochet regime, and Paulina Urrutia, actress, activist and politician, have been a tight-knit loving couple for over 20 years. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s eight years ago, and now they both face the inexorable and accelerating descent of his physical and mental powers together. The Eternal Memory is both an inquiry into human dignity in old age and adversity and into the mechanisms of individual and collective remembrance. Original title : La memoria infinita Original language: Spanish Presented with English subtitles Speaker Bio: Vladimir Rosas-Salazar is a Chilean scholar of film and media, whose research examines memory, archives, and non-fiction cinema in Latin America. He holds a PhD in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick and an MA in Film and Screen Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. He has taught Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick and Latin American Studies at Queen Mary University of London, as well as film and media courses at universities in Chile. He is currently writing a book on home videos as memory devices in Chilean documentaries, forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press in 2027. Runtime: 85 minutes Director: Maite Alberdi Year: 2023 Rating: (12A) Film