#  One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Cien niños esperando un tren) 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 22, 2023** 

 07:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street**  



 

 



 

 Speaker: **Ignacio Agüero**, Filmmaker  
Moderated by: **Haden Guest**, Director, Harvard film Archive

 Director in Person  
$15 Special Event Tickets  
Directed by Ignacio Agüero  
Chile/UK, 1988, DCP, color and b&w, 55 min  
Spanish with English subtitles   
DCP source: Filmmaker

 Agüero’s remarkable documentary begins as a tender portrait of influential film historian, educator and activist Alicia Vega (b.1931) teaching a workshop on early film history to impoverished youth living on the outskirts of Santiago. Gradually the film transforms into a devastating critique of the Pinochet regime by shifting focus to Vega’s young students and their families, whose cramped quarters Agüero visits in touching scenes that reveal his compassionate understanding of a home as poignant expression of its denizen’s aspirations and vulnerabilities. Censors struggled to explain why they absurdly restricted the film to viewers over the age of twenty-one. For to do so would have been to recognize precisely what Agüero’s film and Vega’s workshop clearly, courageously expose: the deliberate stratification of class through poverty and lack of education cruelly imposed by the dictatorship. Yet with One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train, Agüero also offers cinema—both his own and the “films” and “cameras” made of paper and glue by the children—as a means to attain the knowledge and perspective that can lead to a freedom otherwise unavailable.

 This screening is part of [Chile Año Cero / Chile Year Zero](https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/chile-ano-cero-chile-year-zero)

 *Special thanks: Haden Guest, Director, Harvard Film Archive*

 *Presented in collaboration with [Harvard Film Archive](https://harvardfilmarchive.org/)*



 

 



 

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