Taste of Chile: In live action or on film, a real treat for senses
Cinema from Chile will be on view in Memphis this month, in recognition of the South American nation's status as this year's honored country for the Memphis in May International Festival.
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Ivanna Cortes and Alex Araya of ''Expresiones de Chile'' showcase traditional music and dance at Farmington Elementary School on Monday. Another art form -- cinema -- will be on view Thursday with eight short films at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
As Paulina Valle dances, Ariel Nilo, in horseman garb, watches. In Chile, the gaucho and huaso ''cowboys'' have come to signify much of folkloric culture of the South American country, and are a popular addition to parades and fiestas.
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At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, a program of eight short films representing the best in modern Chilean cinema -- as selected by organizers of the Santiago International Film Festival -- will be shown at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park.
Titles include the 11-minute "El Final de Hombre," set during Spain's 16th century war of conquest with the indigenous Mapuche people of Chile.
Admission is $5; Brooks and Indie Memphis members are admitted free.
An abbreviated version of this program screens at 7:30 p.m. May 13 as this month's edition of the Indie Memphis Micro Cinema Club, a program devoted to the art of the short film.
The screening is at The Power House, 45 G.E. Patterson (just west of Central Station). Admission is free, and popcorn and soft drinks will be provided.
The most honored Chilean film in many years, director Andrés Wood's "Machuca" (2004), screens in a 35-millimeter print at 7 p.m. May 14 and May 21 at Malco's Studio on the Square, 2105 Court.
The winner of several festival awards, the film tells the story of a young boy thrust from poverty into an elite private school in the Chilean capital city of Santiago in 1973, in the final days before Salvador Allende's Socialist government was overthrown by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Admission is $5, or free for Indie Memphis members.
The films are in Spanish with English subtitles.
The screenings are presented by Memphis in May and Indie Memphis, an organization devoted to promoting independent film.
-- John Beifuss: 529-2394
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