Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky (Associate Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, UChicago) will be giving a presentation titled “Our Morals and Theirs: On the Lynching Film in Another America” at 5pm on Wednesday, May 21 in Rockefeller 106 (Class of 1930 Room).

Part talk, part screening, this experimental presentation makes its way into the question of law and crime through a master-film of the jurisprudential genre little known in the Anglo-American context. El Chacal de Nahueltoro (Miguel Littín, 1969) is no ordinary object. With its complex negotiation of the fabula/syuzhet distinction, it dramatizes the 1960 case of a peasant man who kills a woman and five of her daughters in a rural part of Chile. Exploring the critical possibilities of the videographic essay, the presentation is as much a methodological provocation as it is a jurisprudential one.