Film Screening: Relentless Memory

The Conquest and Deportation of the Mapuche People, a Documentary Directed By Paula Rodriguez Sickert
Thursday, November 5th 6:00 PM, Carleton 139, University of New Brunswick

Committed to unearthing her ancestors’ silenced history, Margarita embarks on a profound journey, guided by the diary of Katrulaf, an Indigenous Mapuche prisoner of war. She retraces the Mapuches’ deportation route, and in unearthing these pasts, gives voice to a displaced people and the genocide inflicted upon them during the military invasions that founded Argentina and Chile. Through a mix of archival material and present-day footage, Relentless Memory becomes a record of resistance and remembrance, poetically intertwining the Mapuche ancestral landscape with memories that were forcibly erased from the land and its people. Margarita’s emotional journey, evocatively captured by Paula Rodríguez Sickert, underpins her belief that ‘reviewing history not only reopens wounds but also offers an opportunity to rebuild ourselves!

This screening is open to the public, and organized by the Human Environment Workshop, and co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, International Development Studies, Department of Historical Studies, Atlantic Studies Centre, UNB Libraries, and Faculty of Arts at UNB, and the Department of History at St. Thomas University.