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<div align="center">UNSW Media Film and Theatre Seminars</div>
<div align="center">5 p.m. Webster Building 327</div>
<div align="center">Wednesday 30 August</div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+3" color="#FF0000">STEALING
BACK</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#FF0000">ARCHIVES AND CHILEAN
FILM-MAKING</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+2">PABLO LEIGHTON</font></div>
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<div><font size="+1">This talk and film screening will consider the
making of new Chilean film cultures that rescue and reframe historical
media material, concentrating on the formal and informal use of
audio-visual archives.<br>
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I will illustrate the reappropriation and reconstruction of a Chilean
audio-visual practice - literally destroyed in the past - from
different sources and through excerpts of film pieces of my own, which
range from fiction to experimental documentaries.</font><br>
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<div><font size="+1">These works have led me to a theoretical
doctorate research about the media culture of propaganda under both
military and democratic political regimes in Chile. My doctorate will
cover the 1970 democratic election of the first Marxist president, the
1973 coup and the military dictatorship that stayed in power until
1990, and the current democratic regime which has kept Pinochet's
Constitution and his neoliberal socio-economic administration
intact.</font></div>
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<div>This research has been undertaken in the School of Media, Film
and Theatre at UNSW as part of an Endeavour Research Fellowship.</div>
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<div><font size="+1"><i>Pablo Leighton is currently a PhD candidate at
the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, in the Latino American Studies
program. He studied film-making in California and Boston, and
journalism in Chile.</i></font></div>
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<div><tt><font size="-1" color="#000000">Dr James Donald<br>
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<br>
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre<br>
University of New South Wales<br>
Sydney<br>
NSW 2052<br>
Australia<br>
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