Join us for this Film Screening + Community Discussion, with Nano Stern visiting us from Chile!
Nano will be presenting the U.S. Premiere of his new film “En Septiembre Canta el Gallo” (2023) (“We’ll be singing by September”), a documentary directed by him and Luis Emilio Briceño in which music, poetry, archive images and animation join extensive new testimonies from a wide array of musicians who were active in Chile before and during the socialist government of Salvador Allende: Quilapayún, Isabel Parra, Inti illimani, Los Jaivas and many others tell the story of a time in which tradition, innovation, psicodelia, classical music, andean roots and revolution gave birth to the most celebrated chapter in the history of Chilean Music: the Nueva Canción Chilena.
Through their voices the film sheds light on the bonds that emerged between culture and politics, as well as the processes that gave birth to new forms of musical expression that included a strong social conscience, and in which influences from throughout Latin America came together as something fresh and original.
This documentary follows the history of the Nueva Canción Chilena up until September 11, 1973, when a bloody Coup abruptly ended that chapter of Chilean history and Victor Jara, perhaps the most notorious musician of his generation, was ruthlessly murdered by the military. 50 years on, the protagonists of the time share their memories, anecdotes and insights into one of the most vibrant and creative periods of the history of Latin America.
