"A la sombra del sol" y la penumbra de los tiempos de la historia

Abstract

The film A la sombra del sol, of Silvio Caiozzi and Pablo Perelman, screening in 1974, is about a crime that happened at the end of the 40s in Caspana, a village in Northern Chile. Among the most powerful reality effects of the film, is the participation of the local population. Such an effect -a resource of Italian neorealist cinema- in association with an image characteristic of the documentary genre let the film crew make the script appear as a real event in History. In the interstices of the film, however, a visual and cultural mode of expression that had already arrived to its end was recorded. In the moving image of the native atacameños inhabits the visible print of that "new man" that a few months before the film's screening conveyed the utopia of a socialist revolution.