Planetarium Event: Nostalgia for the Light

The Departments of History and Physics and Astronomy present a special screening of the award-winning documentary, Nostalgia for the Light. Nostalgia for the Light is a documentary released in 2010 by Patricio Guzmán to address the lasting impacts of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Guzmán focuses on the similarities between astronomers researching humanity’s past, in an astronomical sense, and the struggle of many Chilean women who still search, after decades, for the remains of their relatives executed during the dictatorship. Patricio Guzmán narrates the documentary himself and the documentary includes interviews and commentary from those affected and from astronomers and archeologists.

WVU Planetarium
135 Willey St, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA