Event overview
The Unit for Global Justice (Sociology) invites you to a discussion and screening of 'After Trujillo', a film about living in the ruins of dictatorship, with its directors
Narrated by Dominicans, After Trujillo tells the story of the violent dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo through the marks it left on the landscape and in people's memories. Myriad voices —from activists and torture victims, to historians and architects— guide this journey through monuments, memory gardens, and contemporary ruins. In the sites where past trauma lives on after Trujillo, Dominicans struggle to live with the legacy of violence, pondering whether built environments and natural landscapes attest to the experience of dictatorship or bury it in oblivion instead. From the cyclone that devastated Santo Domingo as Trujillo came to power, via the modern architecture erected to consolidate his regime, and through to the testimonies of resistance that led to his demise, the film blends interviews, archival materials, and new footage to pick through the ruins of dictatorship.
Directed by Jorge Domínguez Dubuc & Lisa Blackmore
Running Time: 72 minutes
Language: Spanish, English subtitles
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 29 Nov 2017 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm |
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