Cosmic Dialogues: Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz)
- When
- August 01, 2015
- Where
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston – Brown Auditorium
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston,TX 77006 - Cost
- $2 - $1001
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the Cosmic Dialogues film series. These films complement the exhibition Cosmic Dialogues: Selections from the Latin American Art Collection.
Nostalgia for the Light
Nostalgia de la luz
Directed by Patricio Guzmán
2010, in Spanish with English subtitles
France/Germany/Chile/Spain/USA
90 minutes, 35mm
Introduced by Margarita De la Vega Hurtado, film historian and MFAH Film Committee member.
In a “transfixing cinematic essay,” master director Patricio Guzmán travels to Chile’s Atacama Desert, the epicenter of two disparate communities: astronomers, who have claimed it as the best stargazing spot in the world; and relatives of “disappeared” (Chileans killed during Augusto Pinochet’s regime) who search the bone-dry desert for any traces of their loved ones preserved in the sand.
Guzmán paints the two groups as performing essentially the same activity: searching for answers in the face of impenetrable silence, either from the universe or the government.
