More than 3,000 miners of Chile’s La Pampa were shot down by the national army during a demonstration in Iquique, a massacre told in Luis Advis’s 1969 cantata Santa María de Iquique. In The Blue Devils, Charlotte Bayer-Broc wanders through one of the ghost mining towns—a remote outpost in the Atacama Desert—interpreting Advis’s lament across eerily abandoned landscapes and industrial vistas. Bayer-Broc upends cinematic convention in a beguiling adaptation that is entirely her own; this medium-length musical is at once personal and political, reverent and burlesque.
Charlotte Bayer-Broc
Director
The 3363%
Diarios de motocicleta74%
Sorcerer75%
The Adventures of Huck Finn61%
La sociedad de la nieve79%
Pale Rider71%
August Rush74%
Matewan73%
Crossroads73%
El Topo70%
100 Rifles59%
Anastasia76%
Cerdita65%
Mr. Harrigan's Phone64%
My Bloody Valentine64%
Straw Dogs59%
Romeo + Juliet67%
Avanti!69%
Vampires63%
The Fog67%
