The article examines how historical trauma has been explored through documentary film, considering difficulties such as constituting a witness to an event which sometimes does not have any material evidence or witnesses, and which can be unavailable to its victims due to post-traumatic psychological mechanisms. The Chilean 9/11; trauma, testimony and liberation through documentary film looks at how films such as Santiago Alvarez's El Tigre Saltó y Mató and Patricio Guzman's Salvador Allendeconfront the events that occurred after the Chilean Coup d' Etat in 1973, specifically analyzing the narrative structures and resources that were used to give an account of this traumatic event as well as documentary film's liberating potential.
Larraín Pulido, C. (2009). The Chilean 9/11: Trauma, Testimony and Liberation through Documentary Film. Comunicación Y Medios, (20), Pág. 58 – 72. https://doi.org/10.5354/rcm.v0i20.15013
