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Electrodomésticos: El frío misterio

2010 · 120 min

A slow, thoughtful dive into underground art under dictatorship, more atmospheric and reflective than dramatic.

Directed by
Sergio Castro San Martín
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Carlos Cabezas, Silvio Paredes
Overview
In the Chile of the 1980s any attempt at innovative artistic expression was shunned, but a young underground movement decided to omit these prohibitions. Electrodomésticos was the band that leaded this resistance, more occupied with bringing the repressed Chile closer with new artistic tendencies of the world than to adhere to a specific political discourse. Within this context, at the beginning of the 1980s artists Silvio Paredes and Ernesto Medina begin experimenting with sounds as inventive as running blenders, Casiotones and recordings from local radio stations. In 1984, they meet an air traffic controller of common interest, Carlos Cabezas, with whom they form a band so groundbreaking it sounded like nothing ever done before.

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Directed by
Sergio Castro San Martín
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Carlos Cabezas, Silvio Paredes
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  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
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slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • rebellion
  • politics
  • music
  • freedom
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  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
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  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Sergio Castro San Martín
Written by
Sergio Castro San Martín
Starring
Carlos Cabezas, Silvio Paredes
Cinematography
Diego Pequeño, Sergio Armstrong
Runtime
120 min
Country
Chile
Languages
Spanish

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