1 00;00;19;15 00;00;23;01 I walk through the streets and I feel like a tenant in a country owned by five people. 2 00;00;23;18 00;00;27;10 Step by step I am aware that ferocious families devour our dreams, and that 3 00;00;27;20 00;00;31;04 they manipulate this huge chess board accumulating green papers, which I 4 00;00;31;12 00;00;32;15 barely touch in the end of the month. 5 00;00;33;00 00;00;35;00 I'm a pawn in between 17 million pieces. 6 00;00;35;06 00;00;38;19 Those like me, must choose every four years one of the colours of the board, 7 00;00;39;00 00;00;42;29 to finally be represented with indiference and ambiguity. 8 00;00;43;21 00;00;47;05 We aspire to understand this absurd measures, disguised as reforms, 9 00;00;47;09 00;00;51;07 in news-casts that bomb us with... - Tabloids, football and police dramas. 10 00;00;51;13 00;00;54;19 In the end we see the image of a country succumbed in delincuency. 11 00;00;54;27 00;00;57;05 None the less, keeps celebrating moral triumphs. 12 00;00;57;15 00;01;01;25 everytime a chilean by heart, comes out anonymity in this long, slim piece of land. 13 00;01;02;06 00;01;05;04 And I don't mean long for the fifteen provinces aligned north to south. 14 00;01;05;15 00;01;08;27 - But for the long history of indiference we carry and keep on building. 15 00;01;09;04 00;01;11;12 - In spite of being all.. - Connected! 16 00;01;12;01 00;01;14;26 - Neither I say slim for the short distance from mountain to sea. 17 00;01;15;00 00;01;18;25 - But for our vision, that seems... - Becomes more and more shortsighted. 18 00;01;19;03 00;01;21;09 - They sell our skies... - Water, Metal. 19 00;01;21;15 00;01;24;24 - And we are proud of buying technology that makes us more and more... 20 00;01;25;00 00;01;26;01 - Dependent! 21 00;01;26;06 00;01;29;24 I don’t want to come off as a pesimist but we unite and come apart as if 22 00;01;30;01 00;01;31;12 everything depended on a football. 23 00;01;31;21 00;01;34;12 Everywhere I see and white, blue and Catholic University T-Shirts. 24 00;01;34;18 00;01;35;24 - But we must not forget... 25 00;01;35;28 00;01;40;10 that our only shirt is native red color, and that the faces of our ancestors 26 00;01;40;21 00;01;44;08 in the one-hundred coins will not change 500 years of infamous history. 27 00;01;44;19 00;01;47;00 - We call ourselves environmentalists - Though we clear-cut the forest. 28 00;01;47;10 00;01;50;18 -We call ourselves concious people - Though we break the shore for edification. 29 00;01;50;25 00;01;54;04 - And as if that wasn’t enough. - We color the air grey. 30 00;01;54;12 00;01;58;27 The prairie becomes cement and cement becomes the distorted face 31 00;01;59;04 00;02;00;07 of faceless cities. 32 00;02;09;00 00;02;12;12 - As a kid I learned... - "Chile, fertile province and pointed out" 33 00;02;12;19 00;02;15;12 - Home to Violeta and Mistral. - That loved a friend, when 34 00;02;15;16 00;02;16;16 he was an outsider. 35 00;02;16;24 00;02;19;29 - But only loves the Anglo-Saxon. - And in time we have become 36 00;02;20;07 00;02;23;21 the predator that shows it’s teeth to the skin brother with whom 37 00;02;23;28 00;02;25;10 we share the same history. 38 00;02;25;19 00;02;30;12 - And look at us, we are profile of lies. - Slave users, and although the big 39 00;02;30;20 00;02;32;21 poplar groves opened for the free man to walk through, 40 00;02;32;28 00;02;35;21 - We prefer to look at a window and sail until we are lost between 41 00;02;35;28 00;02;38;21 screens and appearances. - Turning on the T.V and shutting off 42 00;02;39;00 00;02;40;12 the light of ideas. 43 00;02;50;03 00;02;52;29 - I simply have wonderful memories of my childhood. 44 00;02;53;18 00;02;57;25 I lived with my mother and my grandparents in a big house in Valparaiso. 45 00;02;58;21 00;03;00;00 My grandpa loved cats. 46 00;03;01;09 00;03;05;03 I remember them climbing huge windows, and I still yearn for 47 00;03;05;10 00;03;07;24 the delicious smell of the “Sopaipillas” that my Grandma' used to make on 48 00;03;07;29 00;03;09;21 those rainy days of Winter. 49 00;03;10;00 00;03;13;12 Since I was little I was fascinated by music. My grandma was the one 50 00;03;13;19 00;03;16;15 that incentivated me to this fascinating world. 51 00;03;16;22 00;03;20;21 We used to listen old records in a huge turntable she kept beside 52 00;03;21;00 00;03;22;03 her nightstand. 53 00;03;22;12 00;03;25;19 Since my early years I loved playing the piano, a huge piano 54 00;03;25;29 00;03;30;19 at my grandparent’s house. That’s what made me decide to study Piano 55 00;03;30;27 00;03;32;25 at the Music Conservatory. 56 00;03;47;24 00;03;52;21 Now I’m 36, I’m still single and living with my mother. 57 00;03;53;00 00;03;58;03 She takes care of my grandfather, recently widowed, retired from trains 58 00;03;58;21 00;04;01;05 and former partidary of radicalism. 59 00;04;01;18 00;04;04;05 From that time I remember the Pot-banging. 60 00;04;04;18 00;04;09;00 My mom and grandma used to go to the kitchen, grab some old pots 61 00;04;09;07 00;04;13;14 and big ladles and start playing to the rythm of the big march. 62 00;04;14;17 00;04;20;07 They hanged for long periods of time, from the huge windows of our house. 63 00;04;20;27 00;04;26;10 On the surroundings of Cerro Barón you could hear a big roar. 64 00;04;27;07 00;04;31;20 My mom said there was a difficult economic situation, 65 00;04;31;28 00;04;34;28 that shortage of supplies and the lack of basic alimentation 66 00;04;35;06 00;04;39;29 was common. Blackouts and curfew were usual. 67 00;04;41;27 00;04;44;05 It was a really hard time. 68 00;04;59;15 00;05;02;06 But what makes me more nostalgic of those years 69 00;05;02;21 00;05;06;03 is taking every chance I got to practice the piano in company of 70 00;05;06;10 00;05;09;05 my granmother and a little candle. 71 00;05;26;19 00;05;28;06 - Stop it! Asshole! 72 00;05;40;00 00;05;44;21 For the elections of 2006, I was 21 years old and I decided to register 73 00;05;44;28 00;05;50;27 for voting, I was one of the few in my circle of friends and college classmates. 74 00;05;51;21 00;05;55;05 Finally I had the wonderful chance to make some change, 75 00;05;55;22 00;05;58;18 a small one but it was very important for me. 76 00;05;59;24 00;06;04;12 Waiting for so long, to let this oportunity pass, at last I had 77 00;06;04;19 00;06;07;22 the posibility to vote, and I was decided to vote for her. 78 00;06;08;00 00;06;11;04 It was the time for women to get some prominence, 79 00;06;11;14 00;06;15;00 it was time to shorten some distances in subjects as important as 80 00;06;15;07 00;06;18;22 work inequalities, in salary and treatment towards women. 81 00;06;19;18 00;06;21;25 My childhood memories are of Chile beign an extremely 82 00;06;22;00 00;06;23;04 chauvinist country. 83 00;06;23;27 00;06;26;24 I remember my mom beign a hardworking woman, 84 00;06;27;24 00;06;29;16 and that in her time she didn’t have the same rights 85 00;06;29;22 00;06;31;14 and posibilities we have now. 86 00;06;32;09 00;06;34;21 She worked really hard to give us a good education 87 00;06;35;12 00;06;37;29 for “beign more than her”, she said to my sister and me. 88 00;06;41;18 00;06;45;15 Women in those years had little prescence in public life, 89 00;06;46;10 00;06;49;00 and even less in politics. 90 00;06;49;27 00;06;53;06 that translated into; little to no voice and saying in important decisions 91 00;06;53;13 00;06;58;21 like work laws, abortion, discrimination and femicide. 92 00;06;59;03 00;07;03;13 Honestly, I think, little by little we’ve been gaining back the turf 93 00;07;03;21 00;07;07;01 that’s been unfairly taken from us for so long. 94 00;07;10;24 00;07;12;24 - The word of god says... 95 00;07;16;12 00;07;18;21 A guy comes in his car to park outside congress, 96 00;07;19;00 00;07;22;12 a guard comes out and says to him “Hey, mister, you can’t park here, 97 00;07;22;19 00;07;24;22 the politicians are about to come out.” 98 00;07;25;03 00;07;29;21 To what he replied “Don’t worry my friend, I already have my anti-theft insurance" 99 00;07;30;00 00;07;31;06 I was 9 years old. 100 00;07;31;18 00;07;33;28 I attended a “Numbers and letters” little school. 101 00;07;35;00 00;07;37;27 Very low profile, nothing like todays English schools with 102 00;07;38;04 00;07;40;00 their ostentatious names. 103 00;07;40;08 00;07;42;12 I used to go in the afternoons so I had lunch at home. 104 00;07;42;19 00;07;45;01 Family lunches were pretty complicated. 105 00;07;45;12 00;07;47;16 At my house had lunch, at the same time, my grandfather, who was 106 00;07;47;24 00;07;51;12 an aroused and devout partidary of the military regime, 107 00;07;51;19 00;07;54;17 and my dad, who was a former student at the pedagogical institute 108 00;07;54;27 00;07;57;06 and a “fucking communist” as my grandpa said. 109 00;07;57;13 00;08;00;16 Topics like politics and religion were completely denounced, 110 00;08;00;26 00;08;05;00 but the matter of Pinochet’s detention in London overcame all those limits. 111 00;08;05;10 00;08;09;03 We had lunch with the noon-news broadcast and, since my grandpa was 112 00;08;09;10 00;08;11;10 the master of the house, he always tunned a station that 113 00;08;11;18 00;08;15;24 had a very particular way of seeing things, “a pretty fascist newscast” my dad said. 114 00;08;16;01 00;08;19;20 The matter of Pinochet’s detention was quite an event at my house. 115 00;08;19;27 00;08;21;25 There were partidaries and critics. 116 00;08;22;03 00;08;24;15 The way of speaking wasn’t very polite, and most certainly not pleasant, 117 00;08;24;22 00;08;26;22 They mocked and discredit eachother. 118 00;08;26;29 00;08;29;23 The scene was tense and appetite was lost quickly. 119 00;08;30;00 00;08;33;12 My grandmother was the only sain one, passed all those years, 120 00;08;33;19 00;08;35;06 may her rest in peace. 121 00;08;36;15 00;08;40;28 I remeber she would come and make us delicious casseroles and say 122 00;08;41;07 00;08;45;09 “Eat the casserole while it’s still hot dammit, the cold doesn’t come in benefit!”. 123 00;08;46;09 00;08;51;00 Passed the years, this manifestations and discredits have repeated at my 124 00;08;51;07 00;08;55;04 house and provoked in me distance and rejection 125 00;08;55;11 00;08;57;13 from politics and politicians. 126 00;08;58;12 00;09;04;06 -Who gave his life in the wooden cross. You've seen it in the movies... 127 00;09;04;18 00;09;08;21 - Are you ready? - Wait, let me count the tips… here. 128 00;09;14;09 00;09;19;10 - Ignacio is my partner. I’m in college, already on my third career. 129 00;09;20;00 00;09;22;16 Since young age I’ve been very liberal and lacking control 130 00;09;22;27 00;09;25;17 which hasn’t allowed me to have stability in my life. 131 00;09;26;04 00;09;29;11 When I was little, my parents never talked sexuality related subjects, 132 00;09;30;04 00;09;34;05 they were always tabu at home, well, besides my dad… 133 00;09;38;23 00;09;41;16 my dad was never there. 134 00;09;44;15 00;09;49;25 And in those little instances of conversation, it was always avoided. 135 00;09;53;15 00;09;56;06 I have imaginary memories of Chile in the 80’s. 136 00;09;56;15 00;09;59;15 I remember my older brother listeting songs of “Los Prisioneros”, “Aparato Raro” 137 00;09;59;22 00;10;03;15 and “Emociones Clandestinas”, in old cassettes and playing the guitar, 138 00;10;03;22 00;10;05;00 singing along. 139 00;10;05;09 00;10;07;15 I make a special distinction to the part Chilean rock of the 80’s played, 140 00;10;07;24 00;10;11;14 having outstanding social criticism and political message. 141 00;10;11;21 00;10;15;13 Musicians… musicians where commited in those times, their lyrics carried very 142 00;10;15;20 00;10;17;00 powerful messages. 143 00;10;17;09 00;10;20;00 Sadly enough, the military and Pinochet applyied full censorship 144 00;10;20;07 00;10;23;14 to Intillimani, Quilapayún and killed Victor Jara, but that didn’t 145 00;10;23;21 00;10;28;11 stopped lyrics charged with social criticism playing to the beat of… 146 00;10;28;24 00;10;30;12 - Yet another night... 147 00;10;32;09 00;10;34;13 ... of walking by... 148 00;10;35;04 00;10;37;13 - Without any news... 149 00;10;39;00 00;10;41;15 By the time they realized the danger it was too late. 150 00;10;41;21 00;10;45;03 The plebiscite of ’88 came and Pinochet was fucked. 151 00;10;49;03 00;10;51;04 - Here’s your coffee miss. 152 00;10;53;25 00;10;56;02 - Do you wish anything else? - No, thank you. 153 00;10;58;24 00;11;01;26 My parents got married really young. 154 00;11;02;06 00;11;06;06 They both came from rigid conservative families. 155 00;11;06;15 00;11;10;08 And passed on to me, a strong relationship with the Catholic Church. 156 00;11;12;01 00;11;15;30 I’m an only child, and my parents were overprotective of me as a kid, 157 00;11;16;09 00;11;19;15 all my education took place at a convent school, for later, going 158 00;11;19;22 00;11;22;13 to law school. 159 00;11;28;23 00;11;33;15 My most vivid memory as a kid was the visit of the Pope John Paul II. 160 00;11;34;10 00;11;38;02 I was… I was around 12 years old when he came. 161 00;11;38;12 00;11;43;05 It was a complicated time for our country, but it was really moving 162 00;11;43;18 00;11;46;28 watching him come down the plane, and stepping into Chilean land. 163 00;11;52;07 00;11;55;18 It was truly a big event for my spiritual life, but furthermore, 164 00;11;55;25 00;11;59;02 it awakened truths in me, that were always hidden by my environment. 165 00;12;00;12 00;12;03;24 Topics like political prisioners, people in exile, social disparity, 166 00;12;04;01 00;12;08;01 poverty, were all avoided by my family and closest friends. 167 00;12;09;03 00;12;11;24 It was thanks to encounters with the young people of the parish, 168 00;12;12;01 00;12;15;02 that I had the opportunity to see this reality, so distant for me. 169 00;12;16;15 00;12;21;01 Today I dedicate most of my time teaching kids with attetion deficits 170 00;12;21;08 00;12;22;29 and teenage moms. 171 00;12;23;16 00;12;27;13 But my most profund wish is for a more just society to exist, 172 00;12;27;20 00;12;33;05 and distance comes shorter in subjects as important as... 173 00;12;34;07 00;12;40;08 housing, right to education and health. 174 00;12;44;00 00;12;45;27 - The check please… 175 00;12;58;09 00;13;00;03 I am son to separated parents. 176 00;13;00;13 00;13;04;02 When I finished highschool I hitchhiked all through Chile. 177 00;13;05;12 00;13;10;09 Afterwards I enrolled in College for Pedagogy in Arts. 178 00;13;10;21 00;13;15;03 What I remember the most as a child is the earthquake of 1985. 179 00;13;15;18 00;13;21;13 I lived in the old part of Santiago, in a huge adobe house. 180 00;13;23;10 00;13;28;01 I was around 6 years old, and I recall... I recall us watching t.v, 181 00;13;28;09 00;13;30;11 with the other kids in our family. 182 00;13;30;19 00;13;33;09 I can’t quite remember if we were watching “Chavo del 8” 183 00;13;33;16 00;13;35;08 or “Chapulin Colorado”. 184 00;13;37;26 00;13;43;09 After that, following tea time, around 7 in the afternoon, 185 00;13;44;25 00;13;47;14 we went out to play soccer on the street. 186 00;13;48;28 00;13;51;11 Was then when we felt the first strong shake. 187 00;13;51;21 00;13;57;16 Then...then it became stronger and stronger and stronger y started falling, 188 00;13;58;09 00;14;04;03 falling big flowerpots from the balconies, they were huge! 189 00;14;05;22 00;14;10;15 We had to sleep for a few days in improvised tents, on the front sidewalk 190 00;14;10;21 00;14;12;00 from our big old house. 191 00;14;12;07 00;14;15;09 Those were difficult times for most of Chilean people. 192 00;14;15;18 00;14;18;22 The 2010 earthquake, I lived in a whole different way. 193 00;14;18;29 00;14;22;16 Now I’m married, I have kids, and have comprehended the real magnitud 194 00;14;22;23 00;14;25;13 of this natural disasters, and I always acknowledge 195 00;14;25;20 00;14;29;09 and convince myself of the solidarity of Chilean people. 196 00;14;29;16 00;14;34;14 That even though we always fall, we have the strengh to keep going. 197 00;14;40;18 00;14;43;03 - (Urgent...) - Cony! What magnitud was it? 198 00;14;45;13 00;14;49;04 My memories are from the end of the 80’s. I remember the 199 00;14;49;11 00;14;50;27 Plebiscite’s political campaigns. 200 00;14;51;04 00;14;55;21 In my house, we were all women. My aunts and cousins were classic 80’s girls. 201 00;14;55;28 00;14;59;25 I recall them showing me Polaroids were they shined incredible hairstyles 202 00;15;00;03 00;15;01;18 and over the top, exagerated clothes. 203 00;15;01;22 00;15;05;04 And they told me it was really hard to get toghether at that time, 204 00;15;05;12 00;15;08;11 because of the military curfew, so, everything was hard. 205 00;15;08;19 00;15;12;13 Thinking different was hard, saying what you thought, scandalous! 206 00;15;12;21 00;15;15;18 and getting toghether to discuss what you thought, impossible. 207 00;15;16;06 00;15;21;10 Now I’m 26, and I am a kid from the 80’s, and I barely lived and 208 00;15;21;18 00;15;24;02 comprehended what it was to live in Dictatorship. 209 00;15;24;11 00;15;27;18 Although, you don’t have to be a genious to tell the difference between 210 00;15;27;25 00;15;29;09 living in dictatorship and democracy. 211 00;15;29;16 00;15;33;21 My first approach to democracy was the YES and NO campaigns. 212 00;15;34;00 00;15;37;24 Though I was little, it was an always recurring topic, a matter of 213 00;15;38;01 00;15;40;02 discussion and debate, especially in my family. 214 00;15;41;09 00;15;46;22 The media, in those times, were very restricted by the goverment on duty. 215 00;15;47;03 00;15;50;09 Although, from my perspective, I think that for the first time, 216 00;15;50;21 00;15;53;01 during that short period of time, there was a chance, 217 00;15;53;09 00;15;57;15 even if it was for a few minutes, to deal forbidden subjects. 218 00;15;59;15 00;16;03;15 One of the main objectives in the NO campaign, was for chileans 219 00;16;03;22 00;16;07;27 to loose fear, appealing to emotivity and more human subjects. 220 00;16;08;08 00;16;11;03 Contrasting with this, the YES campaign who went for living in 221 00;16;11;13 00;16;13;25 the same climate that preceded the coup. 222 00;16;26;15 00;16;30;21 I’m son to teacher-training teachers and I have lived my whole life in Chiloe. 223 00;16;38;05 00;16;41;00 I teach at a small rural school. 224 00;16;41;27 00;16;44;09 As a kid I remember the island full of soldiers. 225 00;16;49;22 00;16;54;10 And folk parties with hot wine and a good local casserole, 226 00;16;54;17 00;16;57;13 that they had to finish by curfew. 227 00;16;58;09 00;17;01;01 As an anecdote I remember the military drinking one too many, 228 00;17;01;09 00;17;05;07 they went crazy and go around thretning locals with their rifles. 229 00;17;07;02 00;17;09;22 A cold Sunday afternoon I remember listening to the radio, finding out 230 00;17;09;28 00;17;12;04 about the attack against Pinochet. 231 00;17;12;20 00;17;16;09 The military got all tampered, and got orders to withdraw 232 00;17;16;16 00;17;17;19 to the barracks. 233 00;17;18;13 00;17;22;23 My parents are left-wing, they were uneasy and kind of shocked. 234 00;17;23;09 00;17;26;00 We were like this, the island revolutionized ‘till 8 that night. 235 00;17;26;04 00;17;29;22 When the National Television of Chile station confirmed… 236 00;17;33;09 00;17;36;17 Pinochet had suffered a terrorist attack. 237 00;17;42;00 00;17;44;01 Then they shifted to broadcast from Cajon del Maipo, 238 00;17;44;09 00;17;46;30 were Pinochet said; 239 00;17;47;14 00;17;51;10 “Is good that fellow politicians realize that this is a war 240 00;17;51;22 00;17;55;09 - "Between marxism and democracy, or caos or democracy”. 241 00;18;01;15 00;18;03;16 I’m still confused by that statement. 242 00;18;23;09 00;18;25;25 History smiles at us after crying so hard, 243 00;18;26;03 00;18;29;00 now we brag about having a plastic economy that pays itself off 244 00;18;29;07 00;18;32;06 in an endless dance, inbetween lines, payments and interests. 245 00;18;32;13 00;18;35;27 And we trade our literary tradition for a tax that devours the words 246 00;18;36;04 00;18;38;05 that we shall later look for on the sidewalks. 247 00;18;38;11 00;18;40;16 - I just have wonderful memories of my childhood. 248 00;18;40;23 00;18;43;18 - Where music now comes from imported products, (Stop it asshole!) 249 00;18;43;25 00;18;46;22 - ...anachronistic singing song-writers, - ...and “stuffing” poets. 250 00;18;46;29 00;18;50;11 - For which, evidently, concept has ceased to be a concept, 251 00;18;50;21 00;18;52;15 - ... and words have ceased to be words. 252 00;18;52;23 00;18;54;18 - And it seems that Neruda and Victor Jara. 253 00;18;54;25 00;18;57;08 - Are only remainings of an imaginary sound. 254 00;19;04;27 00;19;08;19 They call me son of the dictatorship, son of democracy, of the bicentenial. 255 00;19;12;13 00;19;15;13 - Finally, at least I can still say that I come from a land 256 00;19;15;20 00;19;17;11 that has finally lost fear of dreaming. 257 00;19;18;03 00;19;21;25 Where it’s young people take back what belong to them and walk proudly 258 00;19;22;02 00;19;24;15 on the street reinventing themselves towards growth 259 00;19;24;22 00;19;25;27 and found again. 260 00;19;26;27 00;19;31;09 I am son of a land with memory, with history and of a constructing race. 261 00;19;31;22 00;19;34;08 From an imaginary country called Chile.