This stop-motion video focuses on a violent earthquake that separated Chile from South America, turning the country into an island on the Pacific. As a result, Argentina gains a coast on the Atlantic and Bolivia regains access to sea, which it had lost to Chile in the Pacific War (1879–1904). Another portion of the piece explores the book Chile ayer hoy (1975), used as political propaganda for the Pinochet administration. The film presents two complex historical moments in Latin American history: the fiction of peace built in Chile under Pinochet, and Bolivia’s lost sea access. In so doing, the video connects seemingly unrelated histories.
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