Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light was a heartbreaking film depicting the grief and dissatisfaction amongst the survivors of Pinochet’s dictatorship seen through the metaphorical perspective of studying the stars. In the Atacama Desert, the film juxtaposes the astronomers with the women creates a visually striking narrative between looking up at the stars and looking beneath the earth for answers from a past that grows ever distant. Following Chile, Obstinate Memory, this film unpacks the horrors of Pinochet from an even more distant vantage point, making the frequent motif of space pertinent to the feeling of time passing and memory lost. The subjects he interviews who were directly impacted by the dictatorship are now aging and the country losing direct connections to this time. The most striking image of the film was the cut between the women in the desert looking for remains of their loved ones dissolving from a large group in black and white to a group of less than ten. This visual theme of connections to the past lost was also seen in the former prisoner Guzmán interviewed who could still remember the names of former inmates although time wore down the ink and plaster where they first wrote it decades earlier. Nostalgia for the Light echoes the importance of memory from his previous film through the lens of direct sources and how telling their stories while they can still tell it is crucial to linking the past and the present.