Juan Forch Movies

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.

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...

This short, animated piece of agitprop fiercely expresses the hopes of the Chilean people.

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...

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

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

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.

This film visualizes humanity’s quest to relentlessly pursue goals. In the human fight for progress, the march forward cannot be stopped, even when individual people become weary and die. This animated short is based on a poem by the Chilean filmmaker and poet Juan Forch. Chilean painter Hernando...

Video that records the play "Macías, general essay on power and glory" by Sergio Marras. Monologue in which an actor face the audience to give life to the role of Macías, a dictator of an imaginary country but who suffers from the “misunderstanding” of his detractors and enemies. A text full...

A portrait of the summer vacation of some young Chileans from different socioeconomic statuses during 1984.

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

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