I’m on my way! Study of the short film Cinema Alcazar: the use of testimony for the construction of memory of people who inhabited the cinema between 1972-1999

Abstract

In the search of narratives for the construction of memory, there are still voices that have not been heard, among them the homeless people. This article seeks to study Florence Jaugey's 1996 short film Cinema Alcázar. The film focuses on the testimony of Rosa, an elderly lady who testified about the families who lived in the rubble of the cinema for 27 years in Managua, Nicaragua after it was destroyed by the 1972 earthquake. The objective is to analyze the public space, the socio-historical context, and the conditions of vulnerability from a perspective of underground memories, testimony, silence, and amnesia in the construction of urban memory.