Breaking Silence: The Pact of Forgetting

In the first episode of our four-part podcast series
Breaking Silence, we examine Pacto del
Olvido, Spain's 'pact of forgetting' -
a collective decision to forget the thousands of crimes against
humanity under Franco's 40-year dictatorship. Many of those who
committed atrocities have still not been prosecuted and held to
account, and Franco's victims continue to seek justice to this
day.


Dash Arts' Artistic Director Josephine Burton speaks to
filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert
Bahar about their multi-award-winning
documentary The Silence of Others,
Executive Produced by Pedro Almodóvar, which
reveals the struggle of Spanish activists to organise a
groundbreaking international lawsuit.


Speakers also include film director Manuel
Huerga, whose film Salvador is based on the life and
death of Salvador Puig Antich – the last person to be executed by
garrote under Franco's regime; and author Aaron
Shulman, whose book The Age of Disenchantments brings to
life the regime's devastating impact through the eyes of one
family and the works of poetry and art that they lived by.


Through conversations with a range of internationally-renowned
speakers, Breaking Silence explores ways in which voices, stories
and cultures have been silenced both in current times and recent
history, when silence can be a positive force for change, and
what role the arts can play in breaking silences. Don't forget to
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Supported by Foundation for FutureLondon and City of London.


Links


The Silence of Others: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/silenceofothers


The Age of Disenchantments – The Epic Story of Spain’s Most
Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish
Civil War: https://aaronshulman.com/the-book/


El Mirador De La Memoria:
https://zm.lavilladusoleil.com/11056-el-mirador-de-la-memoria-the-monument-to-the-victims.html


Manuel Huerga: http://manuelhuerga.com/salvador/


Music credits


Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi


Outro music: On the Edge of your Spring by Sasha Ilyukevich


Photo credit


Almudena Carracedo Semilla Verde Productions, from documentary
The Silence of Others. Description: María Martín sits by the road
which covers the mass grave containing her mother’s remains.


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