Los diablos azules

More than 3000 miners of Chiles La Pampa were shot down by the national army during a demonstration in Iquique a massacre told in Luis Adviss 1969 cantata Santa María de Iquique In The Blue Devils Charlotte BayerBroc wanders through one of the ghost mining townsa remote outpost in the Atacama Desertinterpreting Adviss lament across eerily abandoned landscapes and industrial vistas BayerBroc upends cinematic convention in a beguiling adaptation that is entirely her own this mediumlength musical is at once personal and political reverent and burlesque