Published 2019
“…Produced during the period of the democratic transition, the film focus on the figure of Marcia Merino (political name “La Flaca Alejandra”), far-left militant who became a collaborator of
Pinochet’s regime under torture. Throughout the text, it will be argued that Castillo’s film functions as a site for the establishing of a double “mise en scène” of the ‘self’; a place where two divergent life trajectories intersect with each other: that of the filmmaker, present as well in the image, and that of the filmed subject, the “symbol of treason” Marcia Merino. …”
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