In the shadow of light – Pordenone Docs Fest

In the shadow of light

2023, Chile, 66'

Ignacia Merino Bustos, Isabel Reyes Bustos

NATIONAL PREMIERE

An emotional journey into the darkness of the Chilean countryside where the electricity that illuminates the richest part of the country is produced.

Large pylons carry electricity away, leaving a nameless village in rural Chile in the dark, where life is made up of simple things. In this observational documentary, we are hypnotized by the wanderings of a child who at night, unaware of the possible risks, ventures alone on a surreal rabbit hunt, among hundreds of transmission towers, transformers and thermoelectric power plants. In the darkness, the silhouette of a large industrial complex looms large, serving a distant urban, political and economic center, belonging to a universe almost inconceivable to the inhabitants of the small village. A picture devoid of moralism that reveals with authenticity the most insidious mechanism of a profoundly unequal system.

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