A Traverso
Biographic Data
| ID | 165085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Traverso |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Traverso |
| SIGNATURE | TRAVERSO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9773-3988 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Forgiveness is something that can be seen from behind’. Visualizing a conversation with a perpetrator and a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a reconciliation village
In November 2018, the authors spent five days in Rwanda, visiting the Kigali Genocide Memorial (KGM) and undertaking a paid tourist day trip to regional memorials and a ‘reconciliation village’ near the border with Burundi, to conduct creative research by using the established, institutional network of post-genocide and reconciliation education and tourism in Rwanda. The authors collaborated to produce a visual essay that would focus purely on pe…
Excavating La Moneda
Nearly three decades after the end of the civic-military dictatorship led by General Pinochet, the documentary cinema of Chile has systematically embraced this country’s public memory project, exposing state-sponsored atrocities and their perpetrators, recovering survivors’ memories of loss, suffering and resilience, while continuing to challenge the collective conscience of Chileans. Post-dictatorship documentary in Chile has featured changing a…
Post-Dictatorship Documentary in Chile
No other medium has rejected the restorative narrative of Chile’s democratic state’s memory discourse as vigorously as documentary cinema. After the several democratic governments that succeeded the civic-military dictatorial alliance that ruled this nation uninterruptedly between 1973 and 1990, documentary films have resisted monumental versions of historical memory by confronting the ambivalent nuances of the traumatic legacy of the dictatorshi…
Dossier
Dossier: Screen Genres of Reconciliation in Australia, Chile, Rwanda, and New Zealand." Critical Arts, 31(5), p. 77
Introduction
(2017). Introduction: Cinema at the End of the World. Critical Arts: Vol. 31, Cinema at the End of the World, pp. 1-11
La Flaca Alejandra
This article focuses on the place of post-dictatorship documentary cinema within Chile’s process of transitional justice and, in doing so, gives preference to an agonistic understanding of political reconciliation over restorative notions. Chile is a nation where the process of political reconciliation after the 17-year-long dictatorship has been inherently entangled with an official prescriptive, restorative notion of national reconciliation, hi…
Heading south, screening the South
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAntonio J. TraversoAntonio Traverso is affiliated to Curtin University
Political Documentary Cinema in the Southern Cone
Documentary cinema in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay has shown comparable degrees of vibrancy and sophistication since the 1950s, as well as a shared desire to be a key witness to unfolding political events and a protagonist in national and regional processes of social justice. Southern Cone political documentary cinema today constitutes a substantial body of work that possesses great potential as a source for understanding social change histories…
Paine memorial
Paine is a small agricultural community located 40 km south of Santiago, Chile's capital city. At the time of a military coup that overthrew the elected government and imposed a lasting dictatorial regime in September 1973, one thousand people lived here. Violent repression against supporters of the overthrown government was unleashed across the country. When it reached Paine, it resulted in the selective arrest and subsequent execution or disapp…
Political documentary cinema in Latin America
Political documentary cinema in Latin America has a long history of tracing social injustice and suffering, depicting political unrest, intervening in periods of crisis and upheaval, and reflecting
Interrogating trauma
In a French arthouse film an Algerian man draws out a large kitchen knife and cuts his own throat. In a short Sri Lankan art video the goddess of destruction, Kali, and a woman soldier surface from the ocean and walk towards a small seaside village. Shaky images of a video documentary bear witness to the muddied streets and flooded buildings of a poor, black neighbourhood of the Southern United States. In a low-budget Australian film written and …
Dictatorship memories
This essay discusses the representation of traumatic memory in Chilean post-dictatorship documentary. It argues that Chilean political memory documentaries of the post-dictatorship period, beyond their necessary depiction of the traumas and suffering of victims and survivors, consistently reveal productive attributes of life under dictatorship, such as the people's creative capacities of agency, resilience and imagination. In order to illustrate …
Villa Grimaldi
Villa Grimaldi, located in Santiago, Chile, was used by the military as a centre of interrogation, torture and execution of civilian prisoners during the 1973–1990 dictatorship. Today Villa Grimaldi is a memorial park that commemorates the life of the hundreds who either survived or perished there. This visual essay consists of stills and text taken from a work-in-progress video documentary that confronts the history and traumatic memory of this …
Tales from the South
A story With no beginning and no end A displacement An uncovering of spaces Existing within the one I momentarily inhabit I come from a place often described as long and narrow (“Like a sword”, we
Dictatorship memories
This essay discusses the representation of traumatic memory in Chilean post-dictatorship documentary. It argues that Chilean political memory documentaries of the post-dictatorship period, beyond their necessary depiction of the traumas and suffering of victims and survivors, consistently reveal productive attributes of life under dictatorship, such as the people's creative capacities of agency, resilience and imagination. In order to illustrate …
Interrogating trauma
In a French arthouse film an Algerian man draws out a large kitchen knife and cuts his own throat. In a short Sri Lankan art video the goddess of destruction, Kali, and a woman soldier surface from the ocean and walk towards a small seaside village. Shaky images of a video documentary bear witness to the muddied streets and flooded buildings of a poor, black neighbourhood of the Southern United States. In a low-budget Australian film written and …
Political Documentary Cinema in the Southern Cone
Documentary cinema in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay has shown comparable degrees of vibrancy and sophistication since the 1950s, as well as a shared desire to be a key witness to unfolding political events and a protagonist in national and regional processes of social justice. Southern Cone political documentary cinema today constitutes a substantial body of work that possesses great potential as a source for understanding social change histories…
Excavating La Moneda
Nearly three decades after the end of the civic-military dictatorship led by General Pinochet, the documentary cinema of Chile has systematically embraced this country’s public memory project, exposing state-sponsored atrocities and their perpetrators, recovering survivors’ memories of loss, suffering and resilience, while continuing to challenge the collective conscience of Chileans. Post-dictatorship documentary in Chile has featured changing a…
Heading south, screening the South
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAntonio J. TraversoAntonio Traverso is affiliated to Curtin University
Villa Grimaldi
Villa Grimaldi, located in Santiago, Chile, was used by the military as a centre of interrogation, torture and execution of civilian prisoners during the 1973–1990 dictatorship. Today Villa Grimaldi is a memorial park that commemorates the life of the hundreds who either survived or perished there. This visual essay consists of stills and text taken from a work-in-progress video documentary that confronts the history and traumatic memory of this …
Tales from the South
A story With no beginning and no end A displacement An uncovering of spaces Existing within the one I momentarily inhabit I come from a place often described as long and narrow (“Like a sword”, we
Interrogating trauma
In a French arthouse film an Algerian man draws out a large kitchen knife and cuts his own throat. In a short Sri Lankan art video the goddess of destruction, Kali, and a woman soldier surface from the ocean and walk towards a small seaside village. Shaky images of a video documentary bear witness to the muddied streets and flooded buildings of a poor, black neighbourhood of the Southern United States. In a low-budget Australian film written and …
Dictatorship memories
This essay discusses the representation of traumatic memory in Chilean post-dictatorship documentary. It argues that Chilean political memory documentaries of the post-dictatorship period, beyond their necessary depiction of the traumas and suffering of victims and survivors, consistently reveal productive attributes of life under dictatorship, such as the people's creative capacities of agency, resilience and imagination. In order to illustrate …
Political Documentary Cinema in the Southern Cone
Documentary cinema in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay has shown comparable degrees of vibrancy and sophistication since the 1950s, as well as a shared desire to be a key witness to unfolding political events and a protagonist in national and regional processes of social justice. Southern Cone political documentary cinema today constitutes a substantial body of work that possesses great potential as a source for understanding social change histories…
Paine memorial
Paine is a small agricultural community located 40 km south of Santiago, Chile's capital city. At the time of a military coup that overthrew the elected government and imposed a lasting dictatorial regime in September 1973, one thousand people lived here. Violent repression against supporters of the overthrown government was unleashed across the country. When it reached Paine, it resulted in the selective arrest and subsequent execution or disapp…
Political documentary cinema in Latin America
Political documentary cinema in Latin America has a long history of tracing social injustice and suffering, depicting political unrest, intervening in periods of crisis and upheaval, and reflecting
Heading south, screening the South
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAntonio J. TraversoAntonio Traverso is affiliated to Curtin University
Dossier
Dossier: Screen Genres of Reconciliation in Australia, Chile, Rwanda, and New Zealand." Critical Arts, 31(5), p. 77
Introduction
(2017). Introduction: Cinema at the End of the World. Critical Arts: Vol. 31, Cinema at the End of the World, pp. 1-11
La Flaca Alejandra
This article focuses on the place of post-dictatorship documentary cinema within Chile’s process of transitional justice and, in doing so, gives preference to an agonistic understanding of political reconciliation over restorative notions. Chile is a nation where the process of political reconciliation after the 17-year-long dictatorship has been inherently entangled with an official prescriptive, restorative notion of national reconciliation, hi…
Post-Dictatorship Documentary in Chile
No other medium has rejected the restorative narrative of Chile’s democratic state’s memory discourse as vigorously as documentary cinema. After the several democratic governments that succeeded the civic-military dictatorial alliance that ruled this nation uninterruptedly between 1973 and 1990, documentary films have resisted monumental versions of historical memory by confronting the ambivalent nuances of the traumatic legacy of the dictatorshi…
Excavating La Moneda
Nearly three decades after the end of the civic-military dictatorship led by General Pinochet, the documentary cinema of Chile has systematically embraced this country’s public memory project, exposing state-sponsored atrocities and their perpetrators, recovering survivors’ memories of loss, suffering and resilience, while continuing to challenge the collective conscience of Chileans. Post-dictatorship documentary in Chile has featured changing a…
Forgiveness is something that can be seen from behind’. Visualizing a conversation with a perpetrator and a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a reconciliation village
In November 2018, the authors spent five days in Rwanda, visiting the Kigali Genocide Memorial (KGM) and undertaking a paid tourist day trip to regional memorials and a ‘reconciliation village’ near the border with Burundi, to conduct creative research by using the established, institutional network of post-genocide and reconciliation education and tourism in Rwanda. The authors collaborated to produce a visual essay that would focus purely on pe…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Art history (7 works) · History (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Dictatorship (6 works) · Movie theater (6 works)