His new film, My Imaginary Country, was selected at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. He presides over the International Documentary Festival in Santiago de Chile (FIDOCS), which he created in 1997. After Pinochet’s coup d’état, he left Chile and moved to France, but remained very attached to his country and its history. Marcelo Lavintman is known for The Other (2007), The Dog Who Wouldnt Be Quiet (2021) and Madraza (2017). This film is the foundation of his cinema. Between 19, he directed The Battle of Chile, a five-hour trilogy about Salvador Allende’s period of government and its fall. His documentaries have screened in many festivals and received international recognition. He studied at the Official School of Cinematographic Art in Madrid. Patricio Guzmán was born in 1941 in Santiago de Chile. The event I had been waiting for since my student struggles in 1973 finally materialized.” While in formal terms it’s more of a standard, reportage-based documentary than any of his recent essays, it is also the rarest of projects: one in which a venerated member of an older generation of political activists communicates a fervent admiration for his younger counterparts and a deep, grateful optimism for the future they are building. (Photography courtesy of Diego Waldman.Patricio Guzmán, who was forced into exile following Pinochet’s 1973 seizure of power and the ascendancy of that military junta, returns again to his home country in order to bear witness to mass protests of 2019-2021: “One and a half million people demonstrated in the streets of Santiago for more democracy, a more dignified life, a better education, a better health system and a new Constitution. And thank you Alan for your courage in bringing the story to us. Thank you Juan for your courage in making the journey you did. Having watched the movie twice now I can’t wait to hear even more about this fascinating story, first-hand. Personally I am excited to be interviewing Alan Stivelman in a few days’ time for The 5th Kind TV. I can almost guarantee that you will not think or feel the same about ET contact after you have seen “Witness to Another World.” It is a narrative that dramatizes the relationship between an ET encounter, impact on human consciousness, and orientation rooted in ancestral memory – coincidentally all the themes of my book, “Escaping from Eden.” I have never seen a movie – documentary or fiction – that has illustrated these interweaving threads as powerfully as Alan Stivelman’s movie.Īlan’s privileged access to Juan – the boy in question, now a man – and the wonderful rapport he built with Juan alongside the world class expertise of psychologist Dr Nestor Berlanda and French Astrophysicist Jacques Vallee creates a journey which we are privileged to share through the narrative of the movie. of a vacant house, aware that he had no one in the world but himself. In researching my own book “Escaping from Eden,” I came to believe that the world’s indigenous narratives and hold ancestral memories which speak powerfully to the question of ET contact, human consciousness and our relationship with the universe. Two days after he was sentenced to life in prison in 1972, Phillips wrote a poem. In so doing he allows us a new insight into this unfamiliar aspect of the close encounter phenomenon. With great vulnerability and courage Juan invites Alan – and us – into his life. “Witness to Another World” is a powerful case study. In reality these experiences are often profoundly isolating and can take a long time to process and recover from. Often when we want to dismiss and laugh at reports of close encounters we casually suggest that perhaps people make these things up for the sake of 15 minutes of fame. Filmmaker Alan Stivelman - together with the help of well-known scientist and researcher Jacques Valle -begin an epic journey to help Juan in understanding. The narrative begins with intrigue and questions surrounding Juan Perez, an Argentinian gaucho whose experience of a close encounter as a boy of 12 profoundly altered the course of his life. A lonely gaucho lives a solitary existence on a remote farm ever since he witnessed a UFO event. This beautiful, hauntingly human movie pulls us in to a place of deep feeling. It was a pleasure for me this month to interview Alan Stivelman – writer and director of the ground-breaking new movie, “Witness of Another World.”
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