Fantasmagoría

Fantasmagoría
Chile/Switzerland/France, 2022, 14’
in Spanish w/ Arm./Eng. subtitles

Director: Juan Francisco González
Scriptwriters: Juan Francisco González, Mariana Camelio
Cinematographer: Juan Francisco González
Producer: Juan Francisco González
Editor: Juan Francisco González
Sound: Diego Aguilar
Production Company: Ecran Mobile, DOCLA

In the middle of the Atacama Desert, vestiges of the last nitrate industry are found, while the residents witness the crash of an industry located in the driest place on Earth.

Awards
Special Prize of the National Documentary Jury, 18^th FECIR Rengo International Film Festival, Chile, 2022; Best International Experimental Short Film Competition, 25^th ICARO International Film Festival in Central America, Guatemala, 2022.

Juan Francisco González

Born in 1989 in Punta Arenas, Chile, Juan Francisco González studied film at the EICTV (San Antonio de Los Baños) and the Ateliers Varan, Paris. He co-directed the documentaries Propaganda (2014) and Dios (2019), which were featured and awarded at Visions du Réel. In 2020, he finished the short film Maria K, which had its world premiere at Cinéma du Réel in the Première Fenêtre Compétition and received the Public Award and a Special Mention from the Jury in FIDOCS (2020). Among others, his films have been programmed at DocLisboa, Popoli, Yamagata, and Mar del Plata.

Filmography
Propaganda (co-director, 2014), Dios (co-director, 2019), Maria K. (2020), Fantasmagoría (2022).