Women filmmakers during the Popular Unity government (Chile, 1970-1973):

reflections on the extra and intra filmic

Abstract

Some films produced during the Popular Unity - UP government (1970-1973) entered the canon not only of Chilean cinema, but of Latin American cinema. Consequently, they have been studied a lot over the years, while another part of the filmography made in Chile in that period had little or no visibility. Examples of this second case are the cinematographic works directed by women in the early 1970s, although, fortunately, some of these filmmakers are increasingly the subject of studies and exhibitions. However, even in the recent bibliography, the productions with women filmmakers made in the days of the UP were not conceived together. It is this contribution to research on women's cinema in Latin America that is the purpose of this article. After carrying out a survey based on several sources, we arrived at a corpus of 15 works, which were analyzed from the following aspects: composition of the direction; Format; narrative genre; form of financing and production structure; if it has an interview; if it has narration; if there is music (if so, what is its role); from which logics are built the relations between image and sound; assembly logic.