Fragmentos de un diario inacabado

Before going into exile, Angelina Vázquez was both an active Revolutionary Left Movement militant and among the few Chilean women to have directed a film. Her work as a translator for a Finnish film crew in Chile brought her to Finland, where she settled and resumed filmmaking, albeit not without difculties. Years later, she proposed a clandestine return to the natural, cultural and human landscapes which she had been painfully forced to leave behind. What began as a documentary in the strict sense of the word soon also became an attempted act of “unexiling”.

During the weeks she managed to stay in Chile, Vázquez kept a diary that remained unfinished—in line with the film’s title—after her presence was detected and she was expelled for a second time. The production was left in other hands, including those of Pablo Perelman, who followed her instructions and pursued her idea of fragmentation. A story constructed from the multiple voices of the interviewees Vázquez chose to record as living, reflective testimonies, FRAGMENTOS DE UN DIARIO INACABADO is split and fractured, an attempt to wrestle with the images of an author who is, again, absent. (Dominga Sotomayor)

With POPSICLES  and JOURNAL INACHEVE.

Angelina Vázquez: FLORES S.A. (1971, K), CRÓNICA DEL SALITRE (1971, K), DOS AÑOS EN FINLANDIA (1975, K), ASÍ NACE UN DESAPARECIDO (1977, K), GRACIAS A LA VIDA (O LA PEQUEÑA HISTORIA DE UNA MUJER MALTRATADA) (1980, K), APUNTES NICARAGÜENSES (1982, K), PRESENCIA LEJANA (1982), NOTAS PARA UN RETRATO FAMILIAR (1989)