The Pearl Button

After "Nostalgia de la Luz" (2010, also to be seen at filmfriend!), "The Pearl Button" is the second part of Patricio Guzmán's documentary trilogy about the history of Chile. "The Pearl Button" tells the story of Chile as a cultural history of water and the Pacific Ocean, which makes up most of Chile's national borders. It tells of the indigenous population who, as a nation of seafarers, had a particularly close relationship with the water, tracing an arc from their extinction and the loss of their cultural treasures to the dead of the military dictatorship who were dumped in the sea by Pinochet's regime. The continuity of violence in Chile's history contrasts with the breathtaking images of the Chilean landscape.