Intersection explores memory and the aftershocks of Chilean military rule, April 5
Vancouver Latin American Film Festival presents local premiere of work that stars Carmen Aguirre
Carmen Aguirre in Intersection.
Intersection.
Vancouver Latin American Film Festival presents Intersection on April 5, 7 pm, at VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre
CHILEAN-CANADIAN filmmaker Cecilia Araneda and actor Carmen Aguirre will be in attendance for the West Coast premiere of the film Intersection this week. It’s presented by the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, which happens each September.
Shot with striking visual style and ominous flashbacks, it tells the story of a Chilean refugee, Daniela (Aguirre), who yearns to learn more about her past in her home country—a past her traumatized father has always been reluctant to talk about. At the same time, her father Pepe (in a complex portrait by Juan Chioran), is dazed from seizures and an apparent fall, and starts to believe he is being followed. Aesthetically, the film captures the way memories flash back and forth in time, becoming a haunting look at the secrets that are still being unearthed, literally and figuratively, surrounding Chile’s tortured past under dictatorship—and the aftermath that followed its refugees abroad. Intersection is also, on another level, a compelling mystery.
In her screenplay, Winnipeg-based Araneda draws some experience from her own family, who escaped Chile’s military dictatorship and often explores themes of private and public memory, especially as they connect to identity and exile. Her background obviously links deeply to that of Aguirre, who is also an author and playwright, Core Artist at Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre, and cofounder of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition (CALTAC). In 1973 Carmen Aguirre's family emigrated to Vancouver in the wake of the military coup that began Augusto Pinochet's reign of terror. In 1979, her family left Canada for South America again to join the Chilean resistance. Aguirre wrote about in her experiences in the bestselling memoir Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter.
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