Teatro digital
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Edison Cájas y Daniela Contreras
Directors
The Rescue of a Painful Memory
Daniela Contreras (director and actress) and Edison Cájas (filmmaker) develop their artistic work based on topics like memory and human rights related to the Chilean dictatorship, as a way of artistic reflection in the social sphere. Their work combines performance, theater, film and audiovisual archives that create immersive experiences for the viewers. Their first collaborative work was Proyecto Villa, a performance premiered in 2019 about residential houses used as torture centers. It was selected for the Santiago a Mil Festival in 2020.
-Because it is a daring piece of digital theater. Given the disciplines of both directors, the play is constantly oscillating between theater and film. Words and images are immersed in the testimonial story of the characters. The acting is restrained – the actresses have an extensive experience in film and theater -, and the staging is built by a team of outstanding professionals from both disciplines.
-Because it is inspired by the history of Colonia Dignidad viewed from the perspective of a Chilean woman who grew up in the colony through three stages of her life and who represents all the victims who passed through this place.
Proyecto Villa: The first collaborative project by Daniela Contreras and Edison Cájas. In Chile, after the military coup, Augusto Pinochet's regime was in charge of converting residential houses into clandestine kidnapping centers where their opponents were tortured, murdered and, ultimately, they disappeared. Today we know of the existence of these centers thanks to the testimonies of their survivors. Proyecto Villa is a theatrical performance that explores the relationship between architecture and memory. It proposes a reflection on the dictatorship and its persistent effect on the present.
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Baviera
By Daniela Contreras and Édison Cájas
- Chile
- Spanish, with segments subtitled in German
- 50 minutes
- + 12 years
A woman who was adopted in her childhood by a couple from Colonia Dignidad seeks to unveil her past.
A seven-year-old girl receives treatment at the rural hospital of Colonia Dignidad, an estate in southern Chile led by Paul Schäfer. One day, the girl stops returning to her home in Parral, and slowly begins to be lured into Colonia. She is forced to learn German, meets other children and is illegally adopted by a German family. Over time, the girl forgets that she was once Chilean, although she knows she is different from the German children. In the future, this girl is an adult woman who tries, through her testimony, to unveil what remains a secret even to this day.
Directed by the scenic researchers Daniela Contreras and Édison Cájas, Baviera joins Proyecto Villa, which addresses the issue of execution and torture centers during the dictatorship. Both plays seek to portray and reflect on key episodes in the last 50 years of Chile's history.
Edison Cájas y Daniela Contreras
Directors
The Rescue of a Painful Memory
Daniela Contreras (director and actress) and Edison Cájas (filmmaker) develop their artistic work based on topics like memory and human rights related to the Chilean dictatorship, as a way of artistic reflection in the social sphere. Their work combines performance, theater, film and audiovisual archives that create immersive experiences for the viewers. Their first collaborative work was Proyecto Villa, a performance premiered in 2019 about residential houses used as torture centers. It was selected for the Santiago a Mil Festival in 2020.
-Porque es una apuesta de teatro digital y, dadas las disciplinas de ambos directores, es un juego constante entre el teatro y el cine, en el que la palabra y la imagen se sumergen en el relato testimonial de los personajes. La actuación es contenida, con actrices con amplia trayectoria en cine y teatro, y la puesta en escena está construida por un equipo de destacados profesionales de ambas disciplinas.
-Porque está inspirada en la historia de Colonia Dignidad desde la perspectiva de una chilena que creció ahí a través de tres etapas de su vida y que representa a todas las víctimas que pasaron por este lugar.
Proyecto Villa: Es el primer proyecto en colaboración entre Daniela Contreras y Edison Cájas. En Chile, después del golpe militar, el régimen de Augusto Pinochet se encargó de convertir casas residenciales en centros de secuestro clandestino en los que opositores fueron torturados, asesinados y, en última instancia, desaparecidos. Hoy se sabe de la existencia de estos recintos gracias a los testimonios de sus sobrevivientes. Proyecto Villa es una performance teatral que explora la relación entre la arquitectura y la memoria de estos lugares, y propone una reflexión sobre la dictadura y su persistente efecto en el presente.
En Instagram, @dacontrerasl, @Edison_cajas_g y @proyectovilla
En Twitter, @dacontreras
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