Refusila

Overview

Refusila (1969) , produced by the Architecture students of the Grupo Experimental de Cine (GEC), offers a chronicle of the social outbreak of 68 through a male and a female voice that imitate the rhetoric and style of radio journalism. This story alternates with silent pauses in which the “ticking” of a clock dramatizes and reinforces the atmosphere of tension. As we get to the month of August, while we see images of student mobilizations, the voices in overthey announce by way of headlines: “250 thousand people fired Líber Arce. New incidents between students and police. Priests denounce the state of violence on the continent.