MARIA DUARTE recommends an extraordinary film that explores an absent father’s attempt to make up to his sons
Feeling Chile
Co-curator TOM WHITE introduces a father-and-son exhibition of photography documenting the experience and political engagement of Chilean exiles
(L) Chilean academic and photographer Luis Bustamante; (R) Chile demo, Hull 1976
[Matt Fratson/Luis Bustamante]
JOHN GREEN, MARIA DUARTE and LEO BOIX review The Shepherd and the Bear, Hamlet, Twinless, and 100 Nights of Hero
GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a version set amid the violent conflicts of the 19th century west African Oyo empire before the intervention of British colonialism
GILL PARSONS introduces the remarkable process by which her childhood experience of a convalescent home has become a new drama
SEAMUS HIGGINS introduces some basic facts about the role of sugar in driving a worldwide crisis of diet-related diseases
Japanese innovation, Costa Rican skullduggery, Glasgow Central suicide, and good deeds punished in London
Cold Junction,
87 Gallery, Kingston Upon Hull
ON September 11, 1973, a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet seized control of Chile. The US-backed plot deposed the socialist Popular Unity government led by Salvador Allende. The Pinochet regime embarked on an extensive and brutal terror campaign against Allende’s supporters. Many were kidnapped and tortured. Thousands were murdered or “disappeared.”
Over the following months and years, around 200,000 Chileans were forced into exile. Among them were Luis Bustamante and Carmen Brauning Rodriguez. They left their home city of Valdivia shortly after the coup to live in hiding in Santiago. From there they travelled on to Buenos Aires.
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