Juan Forch

The Mapuche tribe asks their Gods for help in difficult situations, including illness and drought. When the Spanish conquerers on their horses invade their country, the indigenous people think that they are aliens. The Spaniards capture and enslave many of the Mapuche tribe. Lautaro, a young captured native, realizes that these aliens are human beings without any divine power. He learns to use their weapons and organizes a resistance movement against the intruders.

This silhouette-animated short exposes the Pinochet government through comparisons to Hitler's Nazi regime.

This short animation collage uncovers the financial backing of the Chilean Junta bosses by the US. Screened at the 1976 Oberhausen Int. Film Festival.

Artists in exile make visible the solidarity with Chile in the wake of 11 September 1973: a celebration of colours and shapes in opposition to the dictatorship.

Gáspar is a public employee and Rebeca works in a funeral home,they reflect the discontent of a generation that has suffered the vicissitudes of Chile in the 1980s. Through it, the film explores how the working middle class survives such a convulsive environment.

A female television journalist has a strange affair with a terrorist.

The Mapuche tribe asks their Gods for help in difficult situations, including illness and drought. When the Spanish conquerers on their horses invade their country, the indigenous people think that they are aliens. The Spaniards capture and enslave many of the Mapuche tribe. Lautaro, a young captured native, realizes that these aliens are human beings without any divine power. He learns to use their weapons and organizes a resistance movement against the intruders.

The Mapuche tribe asks their Gods for help in difficult situations, including illness and drought. When the Spanish conquerers on their horses invade their country, the indigenous people think that they are aliens. The Spaniards capture and enslave many of the Mapuche tribe. Lautaro, a young captured native, realizes that these aliens are human beings without any divine power. He learns to use their weapons and organizes a resistance movement against the intruders.

This silhouette-animated short exposes the Pinochet government through comparisons to Hitler's Nazi regime.

This silhouette-animated short exposes the Pinochet government through comparisons to Hitler's Nazi regime.

This short animation collage uncovers the financial backing of the Chilean Junta bosses by the US. Screened at the 1976 Oberhausen Int. Film Festival.

Artists in exile make visible the solidarity with Chile in the wake of 11 September 1973: a celebration of colours and shapes in opposition to the dictatorship.

Playing children are hit by the neutron bomb. Their clothes remain behind which a business man collects and puts up for sale.

Combining collage animation and live action, this short depicts the achievements of the Chilean people under the Allende government and the subsequent reversal of this progress following the military coup. The collages were created by East German media artist Lutz Dammbeck; the Chilean artists Juan Forch and Vivienne Barry did the animation.

During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the Unidad Popular during Salvador Allende's reign. Festival guests comment on this work. Music by Chilean music group Jaspampa, formed in Leipzig in 1972.