victor jara collective (1)

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Poglavlje 1: Okay, let's try to do it. 304s · Speaker 1

Okay, let's try to do it. So, for Chile and for readers, I think it's almost unknown the work of Collective Victor Jara. It's a very like a new thing for us. So, maybe we can tell us about something about the group and where Did it begin? W…
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Poglavlje 2: of and very horrified, especially in the case of Chile, because even at that time, which was a few years after the events of the coup here, it was well known that the United States had an involvement in that situation. 301s · Speaker 1

of and very horrified, especially in the case of Chile, because even at that time, which was a few years after the events of the coup here, it was well known that the United States had an involvement in that situation. And this was very, yo…
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Poglavlje 3: in the parliament. 273s · Speaker 1

in the parliament. So the minister of culture told us that we could not include him in the film because the film would then be interpreted by the Guyanese people as supporting the opposition. So we're not sure if that was the... true story …
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Poglavlje 4: So you were working out with a lot of archives. 301s · Speaker 2

So you were working out with a lot of archives. So I can't even remember now exactly how we did that or how we knew because we we had to make a lot of guesses about what we did. We did that however we did that and we took the film away, we …
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Poglavlje 5: what we call whistleblowers or people who were part of the story who then turn around and see what they're doing and who come and tell the truth from the inside, as it were. 301s · Speaker 2

what we call whistleblowers or people who were part of the story who then turn around and see what they're doing and who come and tell the truth from the inside, as it were. So all of those kinds of things were sort of bubbling. Up to the s…
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Poglavlje 6: which not only, as you may have seen in there, not only were the poems a narrative, in a way, of the events that we wanted to, that we felt would make a good story to. 64s · Speaker 1

which not only, as you may have seen in there, not only were the poems a narrative, in a way, of the events that we wanted to, that we felt would make a good story to. talk about but the poems themselves had been printed in a booklet that w…
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Poglavlje 7: the movie shows the. 68s · Speaker 3

the movie shows the... the recent, for that time, the recent history of Guyanese and also all the complicated, you know, the struggle and the complicated articulations between power and also interest, economic interests. And also for that m…
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Poglavlje 8: I think what was important about the film when we made it was mainly to show that what could be achieved when there was, because the party that came into power that was taken out of power when the British came in and invaded was a party that had multiracial, there was a political leader who was Asian, Indo as they call it, Indo -Guyanese and an Afro -Guyanese leader and it was very consciously trying to bring all all of the groups in the society, racially speaking, together. 99s · Speaker 1

I think what was important about the film when we made it was mainly to show that what could be achieved when there was, because the party that came into power that was taken out of power when the British came in and invaded was a party tha…
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Poglavlje 9: I mean, As I said earlier, there were supposed to be three films. 304s · Speaker 2

I mean, As I said earlier, there were supposed to be three films. Three films were going to provide different meanings for different time periods. They were going to be roughly chronological. And the first one, in addition to showing this i…
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Poglavlje 10: and some of the film that we shot. 301s · Speaker 1

and some of the film that we shot. So I did that and I released this In the Sky's Wild Noise, which was primarily used in a context of... Community screenings, fundraisers to help get money for things that were happening in Guyana, for the …
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Poglavlje 11: which over time changed a little bit and went and became more of a, in order to push, you know, get more into politics, joined up with other civil organizations and eventually was voted into power and he served as a, minister of something in the government and a member of parliament from the working people's alliance for probably about 10 years and at one point he even ran for president of the country which he did not win so that was his And sadly, the story of Gaiane is that because of the way the world has gone, I would say that the racial situation is as bad, if not worse, now than it was. 134s · Speaker 1

which over time changed a little bit and went and became more of a, in order to push, you know, get more into politics, joined up with other civil organizations and eventually was voted into power and he served as a, minister of something i…
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Poglavlje 12: Yes, absolutely, absolutely. 61s · Speaker 2

Yes, absolutely, absolutely. Yes, the best thing I just want to say that what I like about the films is It's a point of view where political struggles and people is not just suffering. They have agency, they have things, they want to say, t…