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The Judge and the General
(with Patricio Lanfranco)
When in 1998 Chilean Judge Juan Guzmán was assigned to investigate the first criminal cases against ex-dictator General Augusto Pinochet, no one expected much. Guzmán had supported Pinochet's 1973 coup —waged as an anti-Communist crusade—that left the democratically elected president Salvador Allende and thousands of others dead or "disappeared." The filmmakers trace the judge's descent into what he calls "the abyss," where he uncovers the past and confronts the truth about his own role in the tragedy. The Judge and the General, a story of transformation and redemption, tells a cautionary tale about violating human rights in the name of a war on terror.
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Fractured: North Dakota's Oil Boom
(with photographer Terry Evans)
"Before leaving for our first trip to Williston, epicenter of the North Dakota oil boom, I find a book-length poem by Thomas McGrath, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, to use as a charm against friends and family who disparage the state as boring, fly-over country. 'There's nothing up there,' some have said. 'Why not drill for oil?' North Dakota has produced some good writers, but for me, the poetry of McGrath answers that question best."
River: still wild: earth hold here (As always I hope) the glamour of animal night, the holy Terror of empty places, secret, and the ancient prehuman Light.