Film Screening: Nostalgia for the Light
Prix Chalais Winner, 2010 Cannes Film Festival
Best Documentary Grand Prix, 2010 European Film Awards
Centerpiece, 2011 Documentary Fortnight, The Museum of Modern Art
Top 10 Best Movies of 2010, Sight & Sound
Critic's Pick, The New York Times
Director Patricio Guzman travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. While astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women - surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here by the Chilean army - search, even after 25 years, for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families' histories.
Melding the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the women, NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey.
This event is part of the
Levan Institute Cinema of Substance Series
Event Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Event Time: 7 PM
Event Location: Ray Stark Family Theatre
Contact information: Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics: usclevan@usc.edu
Hosted by: Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics & the USC School of Cinematic Arts
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