Public Programme

DESERTA

Wednesday 5th – Friday 14th January 2011

Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Programme Director_ AA Visiting School Santiago

Tutors: Marina Lathouri, Thomas Weaver, Christopher Pierce, Tim Street- Porter, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, Arturo Lyon, Pedro Ignacio Alonso / Collaborators: Enrique Walker, Alejandra Celedon, Francisco Forster & Jerry Wolff (Desertec), Eugenio Garces, Pilar Cereceda & Ana Maria Mujica (CDA)

In collaboration with the Atacama Desert Center (CDA), and Desertec Sudamérica

Lecture Series, site visits and film

Day 1 – Wednesday 5^th

Hyper Dry / Introduction to the workshop

Pedro Ignacio Alonso / Pilar Cereceda and Ana Maria Mujica – Santiago

Day 2 – Thursday 6^th

Site visit to Maria Elena, the Loa Oasis and Pedro de Valdivia

Day 3 – Friday 7^th

Light 

Tim Street- Porter  – Site visit to San Pedro de Atacama  

Day 4 – Saturday 8^th

                 Garden

 Workshop in Santiago at Lo Contador Campus, PUC

 Films of the day:  Claire Denis, Beau Travail (1999)

 David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Day 5 – Sunday 9^th

                Type

Workshop in Santiago at Lo Contador Campus, PUC

                Films of the day: Percy Adlon, Bagdad Café (1987) 
                                   Stephan Elliontt, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

Day 6 – Monday 10^th

Extreme weather: mining towns in the cooper and nitrate industries – Santiago 17hrs

Eugenio Garcés

Energy  – Santiago 18hrs

Francisco Forster and Jerry Wolff – DESERTEC

Films of the day: Alejandro Jodorowski, El Topo (1970)

Werner Herzog, Lessons of Darkness (2004)

Day 7 – Tuesday 11^th

Land

Rodrigo Pérez de Arce – Santiago 18hrs

Films of the day: David Lynch, Dune (1984)

Sergio Leone, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1962)

Day 8 –  Wednesday 12^th

Fabric

Thomas Weaver and Enrique Walker in conversation – Santiago 18hrs

                Films of the day: Ron Underwood, Tremors (1990)                                   Michelangelo Antonioni, The Passenger (1975)

Day 9 – Thursday 13^th

                Tourism

Workshop in Santiago at Lo Contador Campus, PUC

                Films of the day:  Bernardo Bertolucci, The Sheltering Sky (1990)
                                    Wim Wenders, Paris, Texas (1984)                                    

Day 10 – Friday 14^th

                Impression – Final Jury

                Enrique Walker, Sebastian Irarrazabal, Alejandra Celedón, Thomas Weaver, Chris Pierce, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, Arturo Lyon, Pedro Alonso.

                DESERTA – Final lecture

                Chris Pierce and Pedro Alonso – Santiago 18hrs