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Villa Grimaldi: a visual essay

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Authors: Traverso, Antonio 1 ; Aza, Enrique 2 ; 

Source: Journal of Media Practice, Volume 10, Numbers 2-3, 1 June 2009, pp. 227-245(19)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.10.2-3.227_3

Villa Grimaldi, located in Santiago, Chile, was used by the military as a centre of interrogation, torture and execution of civilian prisoners during the 1973-1990 dictatorship. Today Villa Grimaldi is a memorial park that commemorates the life of the hundreds who either survived or perished there. This visual essay consists of stills and text taken from a work-in-progress video documentary that confronts the history and traumatic memory of this place.

Keywords: Chile; Dictatorship; Documentary; Memorials; Torture; Trauma; Visual essay

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: 1: Curtin University, Australia. 2: Ministerio de Educacin (Chile).

Publication date: 01 June 2009

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