Looking at the past to understand the present: Chronicles of a dream (Viñoles and Tononi, 2005) subjective approach to a democratic concern

Authors

  • Francesca Cassariego Universidad de la República

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55442/tomauno.n11.2023.42873

Keywords:

CInema, Documentary, Recent Past, Elections, Post-dictatorship generation

Abstract

This article proposes a look at the cinema on the recent past in Uruguay through a case analysis of the film Crónicas de un sueño by Mariana Viñoles and Stefano Tononi (2005), with the intention of highlighting the narrative construction of the recent past -the period marked by State terrorism (1968-1985)-. The transitional process carried out in Uruguay produced many years of social silencing. This fact generated a break in the transmission of memory and a lack of social listening to the particularities of this experience. The post-dictatorship generation is made up of those who were born during the period of State terrorism and who inherited the marks of the recent past and the weight of impunity.

Mariana Viñoles, co-director of Crónicas de un sueño (Viñoles and Tononi, 2005) belongs to this group of people who lived their childhood under dictatorship and their adolescence marked by impunity. This research is also carried out by a person who was a direct victim of State terrorism during her childhood and who only after more than 40 years begins to ask herself why so much silence and what the women of this generation have done on a cinematographic level.

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  • Francesca Cassariego, Universidad de la República

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Filmografía

Viñoles, M. y Tononi, S. (Dirs.) (2005). Crónica de un sueño [largometraje documental]. Uruguay: Cronopio Films.

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Published

2023-11-01

How to Cite

Looking at the past to understand the present: Chronicles of a dream (Viñoles and Tononi, 2005) subjective approach to a democratic concern. (2023). Toma Uno, 11, 83-100. https://doi.org/10.55442/tomauno.n11.2023.42873

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