• Kuifi ül

  • Los sueños de la Machi Silvia Kallfüman

  • Trankal Küra

Films by Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez

Copresented by UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

In Conversation

  • Natalia Brizuela is the Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and a professor in the Departments of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley.

Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez is an artist from the Indigenous Mapuche community in Chile whose work explores the social landscape, history, culture, and worldview of his people. His films use a variety of approaches to engage with, activate, and preserve Indigenous traditions and foster understanding. Kuifi ül (Ancient Sound) enacts the healing and awakening power of the trutruka, a traditional wind instrument. Trankal Küra presents a dance of resistance on stolen land, while reveries are re-created in Super 8 film and video in Los sueños de la Machi Silvia Kallfüman. Künü documents the commissioning and construction of a Mapuche ceremonial center, memorial, and place for parliament in Loncoche. It demonstrates the diplomatic prowess of the Mapuche leaders, who won consensus amongst disparate Indigenous communities, a forestry company, and the Chilean architects who helped them design the place.

Films in this Screening

Kuifi ül

Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez, Chile, 2020

FILM DETAILS 
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  • B&W/Color
  • Digital
  • 10 mins
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  • Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez

Trankal Küra

Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez, Chile, 2022

FILM DETAILS 
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  • B&W/Color
  • Digital
  • 9 mins
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  • Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez

Los sueños de la Machi Silvia Kallfüman

Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez, Chile, 2015

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  • B&W/Color
  • Digital
  • 7 mins
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  • Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez

Künü

Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez, Chile, 2023

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Mapuche (Mapudungun)
  • Spanish
  • with English subtitles
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  • Color
  • Digital
  • 60 mins
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  • Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez

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