(Imagen Latente). Having assisted such directors as Miguel Littin during the Allende years, Pablo Perelman returned to Chile in 1979 from a five-year stay in Mexico intent on telling the stories of the past. His Latent Image confronts the troubled relationship that the regime's survivors have with the country's recent past. Perelman's semi-autobiographical story focuses on a photojournalist who is investigating the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of his political-activist brother years earlier. Going back over eye-witness accounts of his brother's activities and capture, old photographs and films, the protagonist, we soon realize, is less involved in trying to find his brother than in coming to terms with a traumatic past he had been encouraged to shun. Though shot and scripted in a rather traditional political docu-drama/thriller form, the narrative ultimately turns back on itself, as the photojournalist, unable to "find" his brother, becomes more obsessed with the process of the quest itself. For the sensitivity of the subject matter and the directness of the director's approach, Latent Image has been banned in Chile to this day by the national censorship board.--Coco Fusco