Memory Exercises
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The culmination of Encina’s work with the so-called Archives of Terror—meticulous records kept by the government of dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Encina’s longstanding political and aesthetic research project focused on how a community can cope with such detailed accounts of human rights violations. Memory and history, the personal and the political interweave in this experimental documentary that explores the consequences of Stroessner’s decades-long state terror regime and how it continues to mark the Paraguayan people. Constructed from the testimonies, visual material, and memories of the children of Agustín Goiburú, an opposition leader who disappeared in 1979, the documentary is a provocative reflection on how film might respond to political circumstances amid a surfeit of images of terror.
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Paz Encina Director · María Astrauskas Editor
First release September 17, 2016 · Produced in Argentina, France, Germany, Paraguay, Qatar · Production MPM Film, Silencio Cine
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Constanza Sanz Palacios Films
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MPM Film
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Silencio Cine
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Autentika Films
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Daniel Rosenfeld Films
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Argentina · France · Germany · Paraguay · Qatar
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Original title
Ejercicios de Memoria
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Spain · September 17, 2016
San Sebastian Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
Argentina
November 25, 2016 · Mar del Plata Film Festival
Brazil
October 9, 2016 · Theatrical
Chile
November 15, 2017
Germany
June 24, 2017 · Munich International Film Festival
Greece
March 7, 2017 · Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
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