Private Project

Cañi

The documentary explores the different ways of inhabiting in Cañi, a protected forest located in the south of Chile. From the ecologists following birds, the park rangers, and the tourists, to the local peasants and their cattle, and the Mapuche indigenous people, the film is an invitation to reflect on the different agencies, species and meanings coexisting in this territory, and the social construction of nature at play.
This documentary was created as part of the continuous ethnographic work developed by the anthropologist Piergiorgio DiGiminiani along with the research assistant Martín Fonck, in this place, one of the first private environmental protected areas in Chile.

  • Josefina Buschmann
    Director
  • Martín Fonck
    Writer
  • Josefina Buschmann
    Writer
  • Jaime Coquelet
    Producer
  • Josefina Buschmann
    Producer
  • Piergiorgio DiGiminiani
    Ethnographic Research
  • Martín Fonck
    Sound
  • María Hurtado
    Editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Cañi
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 30, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    Chile
  • Country of Filming:
    Chile
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Josefina Buschmann

Josefina’s work lies at the intersection of social sciences and documentary media. She is part of MAFI – Filmic Map of a Country – a Chilean non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote and create participatory documentary projects that foster social reflection and political engagement.
She studied sociology and filmmaking at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where she, later on, worked as a part-time lecturer in visual anthropology, and as a researcher using audio-visual methodologies exploring issues ranging from the impact of schools’ aesthetics on the quality of education, domestic appropriation and urban mobility, socio-environmental conflicts, and the relation between art, memory and landscape in the case of detained and disappeared Mapuche people during Chilean dictatorship. Josefina is currently working at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and studying a master's program in Comparative media studies at MIT.

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