Diamela Eltit

Birth : 1949-08-24, Santiago, Chile

Movies

Tendida mirando las estrellas
Screenplay
Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in northern Chile. When an oversight of her captors allows her to flee, her dreams will have to wait still. She dedicates herself to managing a nightclub where her former jailmates prostitute themselves.
Who comes with Nelson Torres?
Screenplay
Video projection that refers to the various ways in which language operates and its learning as a discipline, in order to achieve a functional and docile individual. Working on it a visuality that puts in scene diverse social subjects, a nudist dancer, a deaf mute, popular Latin American uprisings, the testimony of the mother of a drug addict and the practice of obstetric ultrasounds. The visuality worked on in this piece is insistently intervened by voices that mortify the subject on stage, giving reading to corresponding texts a free version of the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit, based on a fragment of the work Kaspar by Peter Handke.
Chile: Historia del Sufragio femenino (1889-1949)
Screenplay
Documentary that narrates the struggles of Chilean women's movements to obtain the political vote. The thread of this documentary video is determined by an interview with the lawyer Elena Caffarena, one of the most active fighters of the cause and a sharp protagonist of her time.
Ángeles
Writer
A mix between documentary and fiction, Angeles shows the story of a group of college students who gradually disappear, with no explanation. Focuses specifically on the story of Juan Maino.
El Padre Mío
Director