Intended Audience
Mapuche filmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo joins us for a screening of Künü (2023), which was produced in collaboration with Imaginaria Audiovisual, a film production group based in Concepción, Chile. Künü is a one-hour documentary that captures the collaborative efforts of 80 Mapuche communities to reclaim part of their ancestral lands from a large transnational forestry company in Chile, in the Araucanía-Loncoche region. After the screening, there will be a Q&A conversation.
Francisco Huichaqueo is a Mapuche filmmaker, artist, curator, and a professor at the School of Visual Arts of the University of Concepción. His films have been showcased in various Chilean and international venues, including the Mother Tongue Film Festival at the Smithsonian, ImagineNATIVE in Toronto, Museo Reina Sofía, and the 11th Berlin Biennale. His video installation, documentary film, and essay films center on his Mapuche lineage and the Mapuche worldview. He also intervenes in colonial spaces with tangible and intangible heritage, such as archaeological collections in museums within Chile and abroad.