Non-academic lecture

In his non-academic lecture, Diego Aramburo presents a peculiar historical artefact: the film about Bolivia's last execution. It took place in 1917 and was captured on celluloid. The short silent film, reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin, was initially lost after a brief period of censorship in the ruins of an old cinema, then found by the Bolivian National Film Archive, where it disappeared into the archives as a national treasure for decades – only to reappear in the global sewage system of the internet in the noughties. There, the artefact was fished out and finally published by the National Film Archive of Chile – the great rival.

The fortuitous circumstances under which the grotesquely tragic film escaped its own death sentence are the starting point for Aramburo's reflections on the document and its tenacious, resistant nature.

Duration: approximately 60 Minuten

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