Chapter Title: The Art of Disappearance: Remembering Political Violence in Argentina and Chile Book Title: Cinema of the Dark Side Book Subtitle: Atrocity and the Ethics of Film Spectatorship Book Author(s): Shohini Chaudhuri Published by: Edinburgh University Press. (2014) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt14brxd1.8 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Edinburgh University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Cinema of the Dark Side This content downloaded from 128.95.104.109 on Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:21:12 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms chapter 3 The Art of Disappearance: Remembering Political Violence in Argentina and Chile ut of an aeroplane hatch, paper cutout people tumble into the sky and Ocrash to the ground. During their fall, their names, ages and dates of disappearance appear in titles. This scene is from the documentary short Abuelas (2011), which blends animation with real-life testimonies in its tale about family life during the 1976–83 military dictatorship in Argentina, when an estimated 30,000 people disappeared into secret detention centres, many of them tortured and finally killed, their bodies buried in unmarked graves, or secretly dispatched, drugged but still alive, from planes out at sea.