

She snuck into a dictatorship with a camera and barely made it out alive.
The diary of a trip - interrupted - of the director to Chile, made during the social explosion of the eighties: Expelled from the country after her semi-clandestine entry was discovered by the intelligence services, it was completed from a distance. It is one of the first returns from exile and a fundamental antecedent of the first-person documentary in Chile.
Direction
Vásquez turns her own exile into the film's form
Editing
Fragments stitched from what she smuggled out

Director
Angelina Vásquez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This predates Patricio Guzmán's more famous exile docs and helped birth Chile's first-person documentary tradition.
The 'unfinished' in the title refers to both the interrupted trip and the incomplete project of Chilean democracy itself.
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